** Rare ** The Story of The Border Regiment 1702-1900 by Rev J Hodgson

Author: Rev J Hodgson

Title:  The Story of the Border Regiment 1702-1900

Publication:  First Edition Published By Brash Bros Ltd Cockermouth 1900 ………(See Pictures) 

Condition and Status of The Book: 

This is a Good Only Copy of this rare book in publisher’s original red soft cover wraps with black title lettering to the upper cover.It would appear that the book has been protected by a clear acetate type cover.There is one memorial to the Border Regiment newspaper cutting to the front pastedown and one former owner’s address label both affixed to the front pastedown and one longer newspaper clipping folded onto the rear pastedown from the Carlisle Journal as ‘Notes on the Border Regiment History and Record in the war’ article not dated but assume somehwere in the reguion of 1918-1919.Also laid in is a rather attractive Daily Mail Battle Picture Postcard official photograph of three Tommies entitled ‘A Fag After A Fight’ The work features campaigns in India,China,Vittoria,Peninsula War,Crimea and more.Fascinating work of Military History with 148 pages with signature of Hogdson to the front cover and top edge of the title page (unknown if this is Author’s Signature) Looseness to the rear gutter join but all pages holding and remain firm.Small 12mo measures 10.5 cm by 13.5 cm First Edition 1900 The Border Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, which was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot.After service in the Second Boer War, followed by both World War I and World War II, the regiment was amalgamated with the King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) into the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment in 1959, which was later merged with the King’s Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester) and the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment to form the very present Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment and which continues the lineage of the Border Regiment. 

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