Vimy war

Buy FRANCE 1936, 26 July. Vimy War monument, set, UH, CV +/-R 185.00 view scans for R70.00

2006 first edition very large hardcover with dust jacket and 168 pages in very good condition. R65 postage in SA. Includes Anglo-Boer War Spioenkop and Paardeberg, Anglo-Zulu War Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. Napoleonic Wars Waterloo and Austerlitz, Jena and Salamanca. WW1 Gallipoli, Fort Vaux, Verdun, Somme, Vimy Ridge. WW2 Pearl Harbor, El Alamain, Arnhem and Battle of Bulge.

 WW1 - HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR X 4 BOOKS a) Trench Fighting 1914-18 b) Tanganyikan Guerrilla  c) Opening Moves August 1914 d) Vimy Ridge 1914-18 Soft covered books, published 1973. All in quite good condition. •The postage on this item will be R60.00 within S. A. (with tracking) •If outside South Africa please contact me re payment & postage before bidding. •I do not have a PayPal facility. •Please email any queries. •If you think the description in my listing is incorrect, please email me. •The photograph you are viewing in this listing is the actual item for sale.

                   South African Air Force Cricket Team, 1924-25, Hildick's Studios, Pretoria,  original photograph with names of cricketers on mountboard, photograph measures 36 cms x 29 cms, mount board (original backing board) measures 50.5 cms x 42.5 cms, crease to center-line affecting LHS of mountboard and photograph, suitable for framing, overall condition: good. Seated in the middle row, left, is Col.  Sir Pierre van Ryneveld,   Director of Air Services.   Sir Pierre van Ryneveld   was the founding commander of the South African Air Force (SAAF). He began his military career in World War I where he distinguished himself as a fighter ace. After the war, van Ryneveld was called back to South Africa by the Prime Minister Jan Smuts in order to set up the SAAF. He flew back home, across Africa, in a Vickers Vimy - a pioneering feat for which he was knighted. He served as CGS for sixteen years, including the whole of  World War II. Colonel van Ryneveld established the SAAF in 1920, and directed it until 1933, when he was promoted to Chief of the General Staff (CGS), in command of the Union Defence Forces. However, for the next four years the SAAF remained under van Ryneveld's direct control as no one was appointed as the Air Force's director until 1937.