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WALKER, H. S.
Operations in Southern Rhodesia, 1896.
Compiled in the Intelligence Division, War Office …
Publisher: Printed at the War Office by Harrison and Sons, 1898
Stock code: 70765
Price: £1,500 Currency Conversion
First and only edition, extremely uncommon, no other copy traced, the BL holds only a set of the maps. This copy has a small paper label completed by hand showing that it was "transmitted for the personal information of the Secretary of the Royal Artillery Institution by direction of the Secretary of State for War, and is to be considered Confidential." If not required it was to be returned to War Office. This highly detailed narrative was "compiled mainly from official sources" but with "much valuable assistance and information" from Sykes's With Plumer in Matabeleland, Selous's Sunshine and Storm, Baden-Powell's The Matabele Campaign, and Plumer's own An Irregular corps in Matabeleland, 3 of the maps are based on sketches by Baden-Powell. The compiler, Herbert Sutherland Walker, served for 10 years in India in the Scottish Rifles before active service in West Africa, Benin and Northern Territories Gold Coast. Appointed to the Intelligence Department in 1897, he was in the Secret Service Department during the Boer War. In 1903 he was appointed chief constable of Worcestershire.
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth-backed printed boards. 116pp. 7 maps and battle-plans, 4 of them folding. Externally slightly rubbed and soiled, endpapers a touch browned and spotted, mildly shaken, but overall a very good copy,
