Canada. Saskatchewan's Prairie Soldiers 1885-1980

Softcover, entitled "Saskatchewan's Prairie Soldiers 1885-1980", by Maurice V. Winton, published in 1980, ISBN 0-9690559-0-0. It begins with an Acknowledgements, followed by a Table of Contents and a Foreword by the author. The book is divided into three basic Sections: the Riel Period 1885 (dealing with French's Scouts, Yorktown Militia, Boultons Scouts, Transport Service, Battleford Infantry, Denis's Surveyors, Corps of Guides, Moosemountain Scouts, Prince Albert Volunteers, Colonel Steele's Scouts, Alberta Mounted Rifles, Corps of Guides, Northwest Mounted Police); 1905-1914-1918 (most of which covers the regiments from the creation of the Province of Saskatchewan in 1905, along with the Canadian Expeditionary Force units involved in the First World War from 1914 to 1918); concluding with the various units from the province who participated in the Second World War. In addition to the detailed text, the book is brimming with photographs of the medals awarded to Saskatchewan-based soldiers over the years, along with the various cap badges, collar badges, shoulder titles and shoulder flashes worn by them, along with assorted war related items and award documents they received, complemented by photographs of soldiers, as singles or in groups, some of which were taken in the field. The book contains 184 pages of text and photographs, printed in black ink, on a white paper stock, the cover on a canary yellow card stock, the former owner's stamp in black ink on the first page, measuring 152 mm (w) x 229 mm (h) x 12 mm (d). It has a taped-over handwritten title tag placed on the spine for bookshelf identification, exhibiting light soiling on the exterior cover, the text of the book remaining unaffected. Better than very fine.

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