Canada. The Royal Regiment Of Artillery, Ottawa, 1855-1952

Hardcover, navy blue cloth cover, the text on the front cover and spine in a red ink, entitled "The Royal Regiment of Artillery, Ottawa, 1855-1952", by Lieutenant-Colonel Harold McGill Jackson, M.B.E., E.D., published by the Industrial School for the Deaf in Montreal, Quebec in 1952. The inside front and back covers feature maps in blue ink labelled "The Italian Campaign 1943-1945" and "The N.W. European Campaign 1944-1945", respectively. It includes three black and white photographs (as the Frontispiece, between pages 172-173 and 324-325). The book begins with a Note by the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel E.C. Scott (dated October 1952), and Acknowledgements, A Foreword by Brigadier P.A.S. Todd, C.B.E., D.S.C., E.D. (dated November 26, 1952) and a Table of Contents. The book contains twenty-one chapters: 1 - Artillery in Canada under the Old Regime; 2 - Artillery in Canada in the Early Days; 3 - Artillery in the Canadian Militia; 4 - The South African War; 5 - Preparing for the Inevitable Conflict; 6 - The 1st Brigade, C.F.A., C.E.F.; 7 - The Second Battle of Ypres; 8 - Festubert and Givenchy; 9 - Summer and Autumn, 1915; 10 - Sanctuary Wood; 11 - Somme; 12 - Vimy Ridge; 13 - Lens, Hill 70 and Passchendaele; 14 - Defensive Measures: the German Attack of March, 1918; 15 - Amiens to the Canal du Nord; 16 - Cambrai to the Rhine; 17 - The 51st Anti-Tank Battery (i. Another War in a New Role; ii. When France Fell; iii. Training in England; iv. Exercises and Manoeuvres; v. The Offensive Point of View; vi. To Sicily; vii. The Invasion of Italy; viii. The Adriatic Sector; ix. The Liri Valley; x. The Gothic Line and the Rivers; xi. North-West Europe; 18 - The 2nd Field Battery (i. Training in Canada; ii. Overseas for its Third War; iii. The Supporting Role; iv. "Bumper" and Sussex; v. "Tiger" and Dieppe; vi. "Spartan"; vii. On the Eve of Invasion; viii. Normandy; ix. Falaise and the Gap; x. The Coastal Points; xi. Walcheren and the Nijmegen Area; xii. Operation "Veritable"; xiii. The Rhine and the End); 19 - The 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (i. Patawawa; ii. Colchester; iii. "HE III" and Eastbourne; iv. Polishing the Blade; v. Invasion; vi. Falaise and the Coastal Areas; vii. Walcheren and Nijmegen; viii. The Rhineland and the Rhine); 20 - The 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery; 21 - The 30th Field Regiment. It concludes with ten Appendices. The book contains 430 pages, printed in black ink, the text on an off-white paper stock, the three pages of black and white photographs on a -semi-gloss white paper stock, measuring 155 mm (w) x 235 mm (h) x 32 mm (d). Near extremely fine.