THE EVOLUTION OF THE VICTORIA CROSS: A Study in Administrative History.
Pp. [xii]+322(last blank), coloured frontispiece, 8 black & white plates, appendices, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, browned, edges lightly worn, lightly foxed on reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's stamp on upper pastedown, endpapers lightly offset, edges of leaves foxed; Midas Books/The Ogilby Trusts, Tunbridge Wells & London, 1975. First edition. *Introduced in 1856, to honour acts of valour during the Crimean War, The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded to members of the armed forces of Commonwealth countries and previous British Empire territories. Item #152335
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