The story of the Household Cavalry / by Captain Sir George Arthur ...
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946)
Category
Books
Date
1909 - 1926
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3253851
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 27 cm. Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 3: (1) undated handwritten note on the possibility of the Household Cavalry becoming mechanised; (2) press cuttings from 'The times', 5 April 1954, on the laying up of a squadron standard of the Life Guards at St. Peter's Church, Hever. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; gilt stamped flags on upper boards (different flag on each vol.); gilt lettered spines; gilt top edges.
Makers and roles
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946), author Shennan, Kenneth Gordon Woodbine, 1890-, author