For King and Country
Naval & Military Press
ISBN13:
9781783312306
$41.83
Encyclopaedic record of the multitude of voluntary organisations (around 100 in all) that sprang up throughout the Empire to raise funds, & to provide a range of amenities from soldiers' comforts to entire hospitals, hospital ships & trains, convalescent homes, ect., during the Boer War. Contains descriptions of the origin, raising, organisation & work of each body, many with quite detailed statements of funds raised et cetera. A representative sample (from the well known to some more obscure): The Mansion House Fund; The Soldiers' & Sailors' Families Association; Medical & Surgical Aid for Sick & Wounded Officers (The Duke of Abercorn's Fund); Golder's Hill, Hampstead (Brigade of Guards); Absent Minded Beggar Fund; Lady White's Ladysmith Fund; Mafeking Relief Fund; Lord Loch's Horse; The Indian Followers' Relief Fund; Tasmania Transvaal Patriotic Fund; Wounded Officers Fund (Cannes); Boer Women & Children's Clothing Fund; Transvaal Clergy Relief Fund; Soldiers' Graves (Victoria League). A handsome & very rare work in its original edition.
- | Author: James Gildea
- | Publisher: Naval & Military Press
- | Publication Date: Mar 21, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 222 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1783312300
- | ISBN-13: 9781783312306
- Author:
- James Gildea
- Publisher:
- Naval & Military Press
- Publication Date:
- Mar 21, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 222 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1783312300
- ISBN-13:
- 9781783312306