KHAKI AND GOWN

xxii, 456 pages and index, frontispiece and other black and white photographs, 5 folding coloured maps. Hard cover bound in navy cloth stamped in gilt on spine.
Spine shows rubbing to edges otherwise a clean copy with no foxing or marks.

Inscription and book plate of previous owner on front paste-down.

Lord Birdwood fought with the Bengal Lancers in India and during the Boer War (1899-1902).

Churchill and Birdwood served together in Natal as members of Lord Dundonald’s Brigade at the time of the Relief of Ladysmith.

After serving on Lord Kitchener's staff, he became commander of the Anzac Corps at Gallipoli. Following the evacuation there, he went to France with the Anzacs and was engaged at Amiens and Passchendaele. He commanded the 5th Army during the March Retreat in 1918. Birdwood was active in the post-war years, being promoted to Field Marshal in March 1925 and made Commander-in-Chief in India (1925-1930). Birdwood served as a colonel of the Blues during the inter-war period and accepted the Honorary Colonelcy of the 75th Anti-Aircraft Cinque Ports Regiment (R.A.). His diplomatic duties included representing Great Britain at the funeral of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. He was Master of Peterhouse College of Cambridge University from 1931 - 1938. Source Goodreads.