SEYMOUR VANDELEUR

Seymour Vandeleur, lieutenant-colonel, Scots Guards & Irish Guards : a plain narrative of the part played by British officers in the acquisition of colonies and dependencies in Africa representing a dominion of greater extent than India added to the British Empire in less than twenty years / by F.I. Maxse ; with water-colour illustrations by Nico Jungmann.

Blue cloth boards, sun-faded on spine. Title to the front board and spine. 288 pages. Slight foxing throughout. Two folding colour maps at rear.

One chapter of 28 pages on the Anglo-Boer War. "In the middle of January 1900 Vandeleur was posted to the command of one of the companies at De Aar...... and we will now follow his fortunes to Bloemfontein and beyond. Includes a colour picture of the Boer Laager at Paardeberg on the morning of their surrender. 

More chapters on the Story of Uganda, Soldiering in Uganda, the story of Nigeria, the acquisition of British Nigeria, England and the Nile, the Egyptian Army at work, on the Atbara, Omdurman September 1898.