Barrack Room Ballads
with handwritten poem "Song of the Chaklala Chindits" by R T D Smith (No 3 Parachute Training School, Rawalpindi)
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Printing Details
Reprint. Hardback, blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. 17.5 × 11.5cm, 208pp.
This copy belonged to British soldier, and has his handwritten ownership inscription as "Sgt R T D Smith (649578) of No 3 Parachute Training School, Chaklala, Rawalpindi, NWFP, India", this is followed by a handwritten poem "Song of the Chaklala Chindits". There is a further two-line quotation to the front pastedown, a further poem titled ICHABOD to the dedication page, an explanation of the origin of Kipling's Danny Deever, and at the rear of the book some campaigning phrases in Hindustani (taken from The Fog Horn (1894), and a handwritten copy of Kipling's The Ballad of Ahmed Shah to the rear endpaper.
Sgt R T D Smith was later promoted to Flight Lieutenant and was the officer commanding the parachute school for the Rhodesian Army.
The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition, with just a small amount of age-related wear.
Price
£40.00
