DOWNES (Captain W. D.)

With the Nigerians in German East Africa.

First edition. Portrait frontispiece and twenty-three other plates, four full-page battle plans, folding map at the rear. Fine original cloth, titles in blind and gilt. xiv, 352pp. 32 ads. London, Methuen & Co., 1919.

£100.00

Perkins p.243. “This is the story of the Nigerian Brigade as constituted in WWI - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Bns of the Nigerian Regt. plus a Nigerian Battery of light artillery. Its men had already served 18 months in the Cameroons, and had returned home, but were then reorganized for service in East Africa.”

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