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Title: The Roll of Honour of the Empire&Apos;S Heroes
Description: London, Stanley Southey, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy honouring the British Empire's fallen heroes, with biographical sketches and photographs, printed for private circulation for each soldier's family. First and only edition.Published for private circulation by Stanley Southey, and made available for the family of each soldier who was included. In the publisher's original cloth binding. This is a memorial work which pays tributes to the British, Canadian, and Australian officers who served and died for the British Empire. Contents include many biographical sketches of each figure, accompanied by a portrait photograph of them.  This is one of thirteen possible volumes within this series that provide memorials for these fallen war heroes. Figures within this particular work starts with Lieutenant C. K. Anderson of the Royal West Kent Regiment, and ends with Sec.-Lieut. George Clinton Wright of the Second Devon Regiment. Undated, so dated from Jisc using an identical copy held at the British Library.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original half-cloth binding on purple cloth boards. Externally, very smart. Minimal bumping to the extremities and the head and tail of spine, with light discolouration to the spine and a few marks. Hinges are starting but remain firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

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