Willoughby, Lieut. Colonel Michael Edward

FIRST EDITION, folio (325 x 205mm.), THE AUTHOR'S COPY, ONE OF 80 COPIES, 24 photographic illustrations on 11 leaves (each with a Calcutta imprint of 1913), folding lithographed map, original printed pale blue title wrappers, wrappers worn, tear to contents leaf

Brigadier General M.E. Willoughby CB, CSI, CMG, note of presentation on contents leaf dated February 1939; label of the Royal Central Asian Society on upper wrapper

Not in Yakushi (1994)

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RARE. Following the end of hostilities in Lhasa between the Chinese and Tibetans in August 1912, Willoughby was appointed to ensure that Chinese arms and ammunition were surrendered at Lhasa under the combined supervision of representatives of both sides and of the Nepalese, and was also to oversee the repatriation of the Chinese soldiers via India.

Willoughby (1864-1939) had previously been with the British Expeditionary Forces in China in 1900-1, and in 1907 returned to the British Army station in North China (1907-8). In 1909 he became British Military Attaché in Peking (Beijing), after which he served in Sikkim and Tibet, and later in France.