FRONTIER PATROLS - A History of the BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA POLICE and other RHODESIAN FORCES (1937)

Publisher's blue cloth binding with titles in gilt on the spine and the arms of Southern Rhodesia stamped in gilt on the front panel.

372pp. Illustrated. Two maps.

Note on the verso of the half title page reads as follows:

The blazoning of the arms of Southern Rhodesia, which are stamped in gold on the cover, is as follows: Greena pick gold, on a chief silvera lion passant gules between two thistles leaved and slipped proper. Crest: On a wreath goldand green, a representation of the bird carved in soapstone and discovered at Great Zimbabwe (otherwise the Great Zimbabwe bird) gold. Supporters: Two Sable antelopes proper. Motto: Sit nominees digna. Granted by Royal Warrant dated August 11th, 1924.

From the foreword: "The British South Africa Policehas played a part second to none in the settlement, the pacification and the good government of Southern Rhodesia; and, as the pages of this book show, it has a claim also on the gratitude of the sister-territory North of the Zambesi.

Upon some incidents of historical interest Colonel Harding has expressed opinions which will not meet with universal acceptance. but any such controversial matter is only subsidiary to the main purpose of the book. The gallantry, the smartness, the efficiency of the British South Africa Police, in its native as well as its European ranks, is not open to dispute. They are recognised and acknowledged by all who have known the Force on active service, by all who know it now in the discharge of its civil duties."

Some of the contents include:

The Matabele, The Occupation of Mashonaland, The British South Africa Company's Police, The Jameson Raid, The Matabele Rebellion, The Mashonaland Rebellion, Punitive Measures, Native Administration, Sir Alfred Milner, Causes of the Boer War, The Relief of Mafeking, The Defence of Mafeking, The Rhodesian Field Force, The Northern Rhodesia Rifles, The 2nd Rhodesia Regiment, The Struggle for the Lakes, The Rhodesia Native Regiment etc.