The King`s Guards Horse and Foot by Henry Legge-Bourke Hardcover Book

Title: The King's Guards Horse and Foot by Henry Legge-Bourke Hardcover Book.
Author: Henry Legge-Bourke.
Type: Non-Fiction.
Edition: First Edition 1952.
Publisher: Macdonald & Co.
Year First Published: 1952.
Format: Hardcover Book with Dustjacket and Protection.
Printed By: Purnell and Sons, Paulton, Somerset.
Page Count: 168 pages.
Width: 21cm
Height: 27cm
Thickness: 1.5cm
Info: Military History and Military Uniforms and Traditions.
With 60 colour plates and many black and white plates.
The Kings Guard and Kings Life Guard (called the Queen's Guard and the Queen's Life Guard when the reigning monarch is female) are the contingents of infantry and cavalry soldiers charged with guarding the official royal residences in the United Kingdom. The Kings Guard are infantry contingents, while the Kings Life Guards are cavalry troopers. The guards are typically mounted by the regiments of the British Army's Household Division.
Major Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, KBE (16 May 1914 21 May 1973) was a British politician, and a Member of Parliament for Isle of Ely from 1945 until his death in 1973. 
Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Legge-Bourke was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards in 1934. He served there throughout the World War II, rising to the rank of major. In 1941, he was liaison officer, GHQ, British Forces in Greece, and served with the 7th Armoured Division at El Alamein. Wikipedia.
Condition: Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. 
An old book with evidence of age, with some foxing on front and end papers otherwise the pages and clean and bright. 
Inscription on the front inside cover.
Tear on front dustjacket cover bottom right.
Spine is tight.
Price: R 145.00 Inc Vat.