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21549 Pte. John A. Ivimy, 3rd Bn. Coldstream Guards.
Wall-hanging col. printed decorative paper certificate laid down on card, 200x135mm, with State Colours of the Coldstream Guards, recording that John A. Ivimy "Served His King & Country as Soldier No. 21549 in the Coldstream Guards, during the Great European War."
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Ivimy was taken PoW at Estaires with the 3rd Bn. on 13/4/1918. Provided with copied research inc. photo. in Sgt. Hubbard's Squad while in training, March 1917. VG. See illustation on our website.
£20
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The Letters of Major Henry Bentinck, Coldstream Guards.
1st Ed., vi+138pp., portrait frontis., 3 plates. VG in sl. chipped dw. Robert Scott.
1919
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Henry Duncan Bentinck was ed. at Harrow & Trinity College, Cambridge. Commissioned Coldstream Guards in 1903, served in Egypt/Sudan 1903-1911 & 1913-1915 (with XII Sudanese). He joined the 2nd Coldstream in France in April 1915 & Died of Wounds on 2/10/1916, of wounds received on the Somme. Contains a memoir & his letters including those from France April 1915-Sept. 1916. Of interest for life in trenches, Guards characters, &c. Orig. red cloth, VG in sl. chipped dw & scarce, especially in dw. See illustrations on our website.
£175
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The Letters of Major Henry Bentinck, Coldstream Guards.
1st Ed., vi+138pp., portrait frontis., 3 plates. Robert Scott.
1919
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Henry Duncan Bentinck was born in 1881, educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Commissioned in the Coldstream Guards in 1903 and served in Egypt and the Sudan 1903-1911 and 1913-1915 (with XII Sudanese). He joined the 2nd Coldstream in France in April 1915 and died on 2nd October 1916 of wounds received on the Somme on 15th September (when he was hit in the head by shrapnel and in the thigh by a machine gun bullet – his leg was amputated at No. 2 Red Cross Hospital at Rouen). He was thirty-five and is buried at St Sever Cemetery, Rouen. Contains a memoir and his letters including those from France April 1915-Sept. 1916. Of some interest for life in trenches, Guards characters, etc. Orig. red cloth, titled in black, VG.
£95
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"An O.E." [Pseud. of FILDES (Lt. G.P.A., Coldstream Guards)]
Iron Times with the Guards.
By an "O.E." 1st Ed., xv+358pp. Murray.
1918
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Anonymous personal account. The 'Old Etonian' was commissioned in a territorial regiment in 1914, shortly afterwards transferred to the Coldstream & served with 2nd Bn. in France from April 1915: fought in battle of Festubert, later at Ypres & on the Somme. Orig. purple cloth, sp. a little sunned o/w VG & scarce with presentation inscrip. "Eric Dawson-Walker in memory of the author, Geoffrey Fildes, 1888-1963, from his daughter, Pamela Myers. Windsor, April 1965.". See illustration on our website.
£50
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FEILDING (Lt.-Col. Rowland C., DSO)
War Letters to a Wife, France & Flanders 1915-1919.
3rd Imp., xv+382pp., 16 photos., ep map. Medici.
1929
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Service with 3rd Coldstream F&F 1915-16 as a company commander, then commanded 6th (S) Bn. Connaught Rangers (16th Irish Div.) on the Somme & later 1/15th Londons (47th Div.) until the end of the war. Falls, awarding a rare two-star rating, states: "In simple terms, but with remarkable power, with hardly a complaint - except on a few occasions when he thought his officers or men unfairly used - he tells a wonderful story. Very few men can have such a story to tell, for very few had the fortune like him to survive battle after battle, & come out not only unwounded but unscathed in nerve & spirit." Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG.
£35
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MACKINNON (Col. D.)
Origin & Services of the Coldstream Guards.
1st Ed., 2 Vols., xxviii+448 & xx+552pp., 17 plates of medals, plan & view of Hougomont. Bentley.
1833
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Vol. I on the early history & campaigns; Vol. II largely Peninsula & Waterloo campaigns, with officers' rolls & various other appendices. Old half blue calf, neatly rebacked with orig. spine panels laid down, somewhat rubbed & worn but sound copy with ownership inscrip. of "C.M. King, Coldstream Guards, 1899." See illustration on our website.
£145
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NOAKES (F.E.)
The Distant Drum: The Personal History of a Guardsman in the Great War.
1st Ed., xii+241pp. VG in dw. Tunbridge Wells: Printed by Courier Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. nd (c.1950).
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Privately printed memoirs of enlistment in June 1917, posting to the Household Battalion ("an independent & somewhat anomalous body of dismounted cavalry") at Windsor then to the Household Battalion Service Bn. in France in October; the latter formed part of the 4th Div. & spent the next three months in & out of the line on the Arras front. In Feb. 1918 the H.B. was disbanded (with the reorganisation of infantry brigades that took place at that time) & Noakes was posted to 3rd Bn. Coldstream Guards, with which he remained throughout the year inc. the German attacks in March & the Allied Final Advance, then to the Army of Occupation in Cologne until demobbed in Oct. 1919. Provides a good account of life in trenches & in the villages behind the lines, & is the only account we are aware of of service in the Household Bn. Orig. red cloth, near fine in VG dec. dw (this just sl. chipped) & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£145
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PEREIRA (Capt. J.)
A Distant Drum: War Memories of the Intelligence Officer of the 5th Bn. Coldstream Guards 1944-45.
1st Ed., xiii+213pp., 13 photos., 3 fldg. maps. Aldershot: G&P.
1948
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5th Bn. Coldstream from Normandy to Cuxhaven. Roll of Hon., officers' rolls & awards (with citations). Orig. blue cloth, silver gilt, little wear, VG.
£35
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ROSS OF BLADENSBURG (Lt.-Col. Sir John)
The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918.
1st Ed., 2 text vols. + mapcase: xvii+519 & [vi]+546pp., portrait, 27 fldg. maps in separate volume. VG in dws. Oxford: OUP.
1921
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Western Front throughout the war. Frequent orders of battle with officers' rolls, casualty roll, awards, officers' services. Handsome work, orig. blue cloth, silver & gilt, all three volumes fine in VG dws. A lovely set. See illustration on our website.
£145
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ROSS-OF-BLADENSBURG (Lt.-Col., CB)
The Coldstream Guards in the Crimea.
1st Ed., xii+312pp., 6 fldg. maps. A.D. Innes & Co.
1897
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The 1st Bn. at the Battle of Inkermann, Siege of Sebastopol &c., with various statistical returns of drafts, casualties &c., based on the regimental history volume covering 1815-1885. Orig. red cloth, gilt, minor wear, about VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£75
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