CAMPAIGNING IN SOUTH AFRICA AND EGYPT

First Edition. 187pp + 4 maps. Original maroon cloth, showing some bumps and general wear, ex-libris for James Cecil Dalton in the front (most likely Major-General James Cecil Dalton 1848 - 1931) and on front free endpaper ex-libris for Army Museums Ogilby Trust. Dealer price in pencil for £200. Occasional foxing, but generally clean. Later inserted plate in p248 titled “Placing the Guns (Egyptian Campaign, 1882), illustration of cavalry glued to the back endpaper and numerous notes on soldiers during the South African war 1879-81 on the last two blank pages.
A first-hand account of Molyneux's experiences as a British soldier during the Second Boer War in South Africa and the Mahdist War in Egypt.