Light-hearthed sketches

Guest

Hi all

What book possesses most of the light-hearthed sketches done on campaign of the british army in South Africa by W.Lloyd ?

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Pascal

Posts : 2871 Join date : 2010-06-02

Hi Pascal

Book is "On Active Service " published by Chapman and Hall 1890.

Steve

Guest

Good evening and thank you

It is available?

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pascal

Posts : 2871 Join date : 2010-06-02

Only as original and at great cost I think.

Steve

Subject: Re: Light-hearthed sketches Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:05 am

Alternate is ' A Soldier Artist in Zululand'. Only available from Nicky Rattray at Fugitive Drift Lodge.

Guest

Hello all

Springbok9, how to contact him to buy this book ?

Cheers

Pascal

Subject: Re: Light-hearthed sketches Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:04 am

Pascal

Nicky is the widow of the late david Rattray. She is the owner and runs the fugitives drift guest house. Google it and you will come up with an e mail address. As a few of the members on the forum will tell you she is an extremely nice lady and will assist you in buying and shipping the book. It is well worth the purchase.

Guest

Hello

And I " google "... what word ?

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Pascal

Subject: Re: Light-hearthed sketches Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:25 am

In order to find Fugitives Drift Lodge, try and Google..... Fugitives Drift Lodge............. could suprise you and work.

Guest

Thank you Sir

Have you ever seen this book?

Please, here are many illustrations of the British army in what wars in this book ?

Cheers

Pascal

Subject: Re: Light-hearthed sketches Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:23 am

Im lucky i have a first edition copy.
David Rattray was loaned a series of sketches by Lloyds descendants. A lot of these sketches and paintings were of ground traversed by the invading column. He spent a long time travelling the area finding where the paintings were done and photographing the same scenes. Many of the scenes are of the column in transit and in one case indicated a different route taken by the column than generally accepted. There are paintings of the dead at isandlwana, of RD and many more.
Its a valuable addition to any serious collection, mine is autographed and I trully cherish it.
Its not a cheap book, there again quality isnt cheap.

Subject: lIghthearted sketches Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:33 am

Got it .

Guest

thank you Springbok9

In the MAA 57 and In any others books, they are again and again the same illustrations of W.Lloyd on the 24 th soldiers in campaign ...

They were published in "Boy's Own Paper." These are the same they are illustrations in the book you say?

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Pascal

Subject: Re: Light-hearthed sketches Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:38 am

Much much more, as Im sure 90 would agree.

Guest

Many thanks Sprinbok9

Oh while I think, I'm not "gallic" (Possibly its my total LACK of gallic undestanding ect ...) but "brittonic" ...Ancient Brittons ancestors of the Sub-Roman - British ancestors of the Bretons and of the welsh and cornish celtes of UK...

Gallic = Gaulois...

My ancestor were in Britain, for centuries long before the first landing of Julius Caesar ...

If you said to a Welshman he is Scottish, the result would be the same ...

Cheers

Pascal

Subject: Re: Light-hearthed sketches Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:31 pm

I stand corrected.

Guest

It does not matter, it's like you said it to a Zulu is a Xhosa

Guest

Springbok9

I sent e-mail for this book, we'll see ...

Cheers

Pascal

Guest

the light-hearthed sketches of W.Lloyd are the best of the best Very Happy

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