WHITE, O. G. W.

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Straight on for Tokyo: The War History of the 2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (54th Foot), 1939-1948. First edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "With all best wishes and happy memories of Dai Nippon, Geoffrey." Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Geoffrey Woodhouse White (1910-1975) commanded the Dorsetshires in 1943 and 1944-6, and he later served with the British Army of the Rhine. He is pictured, pipe on the go, in one of the plates.In his foreword, General Sir Montagu Stopford commends the regiment's discipline amid the intense fighting of the war against Japan.

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