THE WAR DIARIES OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL LEWIS CECIL WAGSTAFF. ...

THE WAR DIARIES OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL LEWIS CECIL WAGSTAFF. A collection of diaries relating to Major Wagstaff, the brother of Major-General Sir Cyril Mosley Wagstaff. They document his experiences in British India, serving first with the 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Rajput Light Infantry, where he reached Captain and then Major. Under the 1922 reorganisation of the British Indian Army, his unit was subsumed into the 7th Rajput Regiment, the 1st Battalion of which he became commander in 1930 as Lieutenant-Colonel. Included in his diaries are accounts of 'musket' and other training, a chapter-by-chapter commentary on 'The Middle Eastern Question or, Some Political Problems of Indian Defence' by Sir Valentine Chirol dated 1905; a hand-written account of Nadir Shah's invasion of India in the 18h century, written in Hindustani using the Devanagari script; an account of the British effort to aid the Persian Cossacks in holding back Ottoman advances into Persia following the withdrawal of Russia from WWI, dated 1918, along with accounts of Russian prisoners of war fleeing the Ottoman advance; two notebooks used for learning Russian. To also include other ephemera including Wagstaff's Sandhurst officer commission papers, his field service book from 1916, a miscellaneous Adjutant's file, various other miscellaneous files in a Russian officer's file, photo albums including photographs and photos while on deployment, including around Rajputana and the Taj Mahal along with photographs of Wagstaff with the Persian Cossacks, the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in modern day Iran, Royal Flying Corps aircraft in Persia etc. Largest H32cm (qty).

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