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Title: The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign

Author: Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

Release date: July 7, 2016 [eBook #52522]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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    H. Walker Barnett & Co.
  LIEUT.-COL. R. A. DE B. ROSE, C.M.G., D.S.O.  
  Commanding the Gold Coast Regiment.  
    Frontispiece.
THE
GOLD COAST REGIMENT
IN THE EAST AFRICAN
CAMPAIGN
BY SIR HUGH CLIFFORD, K.C.M.G.
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1920
All rights reserved
TO
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL R. A. DE B. ROSE,
C.M.G., D.S.O.,
AND TO THE
OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
AND MEN
OF THE
GOLD COAST REGIMENT OF THE WEST
AFRICAN FRONTIER FORCE
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
IN ADMIRATION OF THEIR COURAGE, THEIR STEADFASTNESS AND THEIR
ACHIEVEMENTS, IN SYMPATHY WITH THEIR HEAVY LOSSES, AND IN
GRATITUDE FOR THE LUSTRE WHICH THEY SHED UPON THE
COLONY WHOSE NAME THEY BEAR
BY
THEIR SOMETIME GOVERNOR AND TITULAR
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
HUGH CLIFFORD.