Physical description

This book has a red cloth over card cover with black text mounted in a gold shield at the top of the cover with a gold figure of a sailor who is standing on black rocks. There is a gold image of two galleons inside a black circle. The spine has the title in black on a gold shield , similar to the front cover . The back cover is plain. It has 248 pages relating to the Armed Forces and 256 pages relating to naval stories.There are a number of colour plates and black and white drawings many depicting military scenes. Inside front and back covers are faced with brown and mustard coloured pages. There is a name plate inside the front cover.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Cover:Heroes of the United service; Illustrated ; F Warne & Co. Bookplate:The Public Schools of Victoria St Patrick's & St Francis Xavier's Colleges Founded 1854 Awarded to Arthur Jackman Form:4; Subject; Hist; Geog;Spell; & Dictn. Presented by his Royal Highness The Duke of Cornwall & York Rectorr P Keating SJ May 1901. L Valentine.

Summary

This book contains a number of stories which relate to heroes of the British Army and Navy . After a brief synopsis of the history of British military, it then commences from the conquest of Canada in 1759 and relates the stories of renown personnel through to the beginning of the 20th century.