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14th Heavy Battery R.G.A. War Diary, List of Honours & Awards to Officers, N.C.O.'s & Men Whilst Serving with the Battery, List of Officers who have Served with the Battery & Battery Roll of Honour. 1st Ed., 108pp., 7 photos., fldg. map (showing positions & dates where the Battery was in action, 1915-1918). Robert Scott. 1919  #67412
[HLMainPic] Contains Battery history, War Diary & various rolls as stated in the title. Roll of casualties includes the wounded, inc. place & nature of wounds; roll of awards includes citations inc. MMs; officers' service roll includes dates of service with unit & other details. Served at the Somme 1916, Arras 1917 &c. Orig. paper covd. boards with title & coloured cloth onlay to front (formation sign), blue spine strip latterly renewed, VG thus. See illustration on our website.   £60
178 Siege Battery R.G.A., B.E.F. France 1916-1918. 1st Ed., viii+127pp., 4 plates. Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Printers, Leeds. 1919  #63037
[HLMainPic] 6-inch Howitzer battery formed 1916: to France in October & immediately in action on the Arras front, inc. supporting a raid at Blangy in Jan. 1917, Battle of Arras inc. supporting attacks on Monchy-le-Preux &c., later at 3rd Ypres, Cambrai, Spring Offensive &c. Nominal roll of original Battery, another at demobilization, Roll of Hon. (inc. wounded & gassed), awards. Useful account with much interesting detail on the work of the battery & several most interesting appendices including Battery Humour &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. Ownership inscrip. of W.N. Bates, listed as a Gunner in the nominal roll of the original battery. See illustration on our website.   £100
18-PR. Q.F. Gun. Gun Drill. 1914. Orig. printed wraps., 24pp. Printed by Harrison & Sons for HMSO. 1914  #68449
[HLMainPic] Official Copy. Drill for moving, mounting, loading, firing, misfires, cease fire & more actions relating to the gun. Also how ro deal with jammed breech mechanisms, &c. VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
18-PR. Q.F. Gun. Gun Drill. 1916. (Reprinted with Amendments, 1917.) Orig. printed wraps., 22pp. Printed by Harrison & Sons for HMSO. 1917  #68450
[HLMainPic] Official Copy. Drill for moving, mounting, loading, firing, misfires, cease fire & more actions relating to the gun. Also how to deal with jammed breech mechanisms, &c. VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
18-PR. Q.F. Gun. Section Gun Drill. 1912. Orig. printed wraps., 15pp. Printed by Harrison & Sons for HMSO. 1912  #68448
[HLMainPic] Official Copy. Drill for moving, mounting, loading, firing, misfires, cease fire & more actions relating to the gun. VG with two Amendments slips pasted in. See illustration on our website.   £45
332 Siege Battery R.G.A. An Account of its Adventures in the Great War, 1917-18. Compiled from Notes & Recollections of Officers of the Battery. 1st Ed., ix+134pp., 22 photos., 5 fldg. maps. Windsor: Oxley & Son, Printers. nd (c.1920s)  #61958
[HLMainPic] 6-In. How. Battery formed Jan. 1917: F&F from May starting in Ploegsteert Sector then 3rd Ypres, down to Bertrancourt for March Retreat & Final Advance from Mericourt to Bois l'Evecque. Detailed history. Roll of officers & WOs (with brief services), Roll of Hon. Orig. dec. blue cloth, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £95
60-PR. B.L. Gun, Mark II, 1916. Carriage. Gun Drill. 1916. Orig. printed wraps., 31pp. Printed by Harrison & Sons for HMSO. 1916  #68453
[HLMainPic] Official Copy. Drill for moving, mounting, loading, firing, misfires, cease fire & more actions relating to the gun. Also how to deal with jammed breech mechanisms, &c. VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
60-PR. B.L. Gun. Section Gun Drill. 1912. Orig. printed wraps., 13pp. Printed by Harrison & Sons for HMSO. 1912  #68451
[HLMainPic] Official Copy. Drill for moving, mounting, loading, firing, misfires, cease fire & more actions relating to the gun. VG with Amendment slip tipped-in. See illustration on our website.   £45
A History of the Sixty-Sixth Field Artillery Brigade American Expeditionay Forces, Composed of the 146th & the 148th Field Artillery; National Guard Troops from the Western States of Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, New Mexico. 1st Ed., 379pp., 105 photos., 7 fldg. maps. Denver: Smith-Brooks. nd (c.1919)  #61173
[HLMainPic] Lavish & well-illustrated but sadly lacks two maps. Orig. cloth, rather worn, sound. See illustration on our website.   £20
A Subaltern's Share in the War: Home Letters of the late George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., Attached R.F.C. Intro. & Notes by Mrs. Horace Porter. 1st Ed., xviii+178pp., portrait frontis., 4 plates. Constable. 1917  #67360
[HLMainPic] George Weston Devenish was born in 1893, educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, receiving his commission (Royal Horse and Field Artillery) in July 1913. To France in September 1914, joining 6th Battery, 40th Brigade R.F.A., 3rd Division, on the Aisne. He was wounded near his Observation Post at Fauqissart, 28th October 1914, proceeded to France again in June 1915 and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in April 1916; he spent four months as an artillery observer then underwent pilot training. He was killed in action with 35th Squadron, shot down in flames, on 6th June 1917, and is commemorated on the Arras (Flying Services) Memorial. He was twenty-three. Contains lengthy extracts from entertaining and informative letters describing his active service experiences in Flanders and later over the Western Front. Orig. paper covd. boards, sympathetically rebacked in grey cloth, VG thus. See illustration on our website.   £145

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