Peking & Environs—GSGS—Official Use Only—Capt. Veasey—British Legation 1909 map
£2,920
SKU: P-7-028337
'Peking and Environs. From the German Staff Map of 1907, with additions—For Official Use Only—G.S.G.S. No. 2417—Map No. 5'
A very rare and detailed British Military/Intelligence survey plan of Beijing (then Peking) and its environs in the post-Boxer, Legation Quarter era, with roads, compounds, temples, villages & waterways. Issued by the War Office and marked "For Offical Use Only". Verso inscription: “Peking 1931/32. Used by H.G.V. when cmdg. Legation Guard,” thus apparently used by Captain Harley Gerald Veasey, The Queen’s Royal Regiment, later Brigadier H.G. Veasey, DSO. The regimental history records that the 1st Battalion went to North China in 1930 and that D Company and the Machine Gun Platoon were sent to Peking to guard the British Legation, with barracks and officers’ mess inside the Legation Compound. It also notes Mrs Veasey, wife of Captain H.G. Veasey, living with the battalion in China, and illustrates the posting with a contemporary photograph captioned “British Legation Guard, Peking Summer 1931.” Veasey was later decorated in Palestine and commanded the 28th East African Infantry Brigade during the Second World War.
Size 92 x 72 cm | 36.0 x 28.5 inches
Date Published: 1909
Type: An extremely detailed antique colour British Military/Intelligence city plan, laid down onto linen
Author: War Office
Publication: War Office
Condition: Good |
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