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East Kent Regiment   6 Books
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A Diary of The First-Fourth Battalion The Buffs, East Kent Regiment - Territorial Force 1914-1919, 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., [iii]+42pp.  #66130
[HLMainPic] A detailed diary record which includes the comings & goings of numerous officers, NCOs, &c. Several rolls of officers. The battalion served in India 1914-15, Aden July 1915-Jan. 1916 (& much involved in operations there), India 1916-19. Orig. dec. wraps., one corner of front wrap. torn away o/w VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £125
A Wreath of Memories. 1st Ed., v+107pp., portrait frontis., 7 plates. Humphreys. 1917  #67358
[HLMainPic] Hon. George Joachim Goschen was born in 1893, son of George Joachim, 2nd Viscount Goschen, & Evelyn, his wife, of Seacox Heath, Hawkhurst, Kent. Ed. at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. In September 1914 he was commissioned in the 1/5th Bn. East Kent Regiment (Territorial Force) & sailed with the regiment for India soon after. At the end of 1915 it was transferred to the Mesopotamia, proceeding up the Tigris, and on 7th Jan. 1916 Lieutenant Goschen was wounded during the Battle of Sheikh Saad, Died of Wounds on the 19th inst. & buried in Amara War Cemetery. He was twenty-two and was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches. Includes biographical notes, wartime letters from India and the journey from Bombay to Mesopotamia, a few from the Tigris front followed by letters of condolence from officers and men of his regiment &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG with loosely inserted letter & presentation inscrip. to Mary Hardcastle from Goschen's parents, "Uncle George & Aunt Evelyn." See illustrations on our website.   £175
The War Dragon: The Regimental Gazette of "The Buffs" (East Kent Regiment), No. 7, December 1916. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 16pp., 4to, 4 photos. G. Street & Co., Ltd, for The Buffs. Contemp.  #62481
[HLMainPic] Rare wartime journal of the Buffs including Rolls. of Hon. & awards, several obits of fallen officers & men, &c. This edition contains a lengthy account of PoW life 1915-16 by Lt. S. Vaughan of the 8th Bn., who was captured at Loos (includes account of this action & his capture, also 3 photos. of himself & other PoWs), also a named group photo. of the officers & NCOs of the 2nd Bn. & an account of the same battalion's services in France from Jan-April 1915. VG. See illustrations on our website.   £45
[THESIGER (Percy M.)] Sketches by a Kent Yeoman 1914-1918. 1st Ed., orig. limp dec. wraps. 68pp., 4to, illus. throughout. Melrose. nd  #66400
[HLMainPic] Some 150 attractive drawings, humorous & otherwise, of scenes in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine & France (with many locations identified). Dedicated by the author to his old comrades of the East & West Kent Yeomanry & 10th Buffs. VG, scarce. See illustrations on our website.   £120
MOODY (Col. R.S.H.) Historical Records of the Buffs, East Kent Regiment 1914-1919. 1st Ed., xx+554pp., 2 col. & 12 b/w plates, 27 maps (most fldg.). Medici. 1922  #64884
[HLMainPic] Most bns. served Western Front, also Aden, Mespot, Salonika & Palestine. Roll of Hon., awards. Orig. blue cloth, somewhat rubbed & worn but sound & complete. See illustration on our website.   £40
T.A.B. A Year in the Salient & Other Letters by Theodore Anthony Brown, MC, Acting Captain, The Buffs. 1st Ed., 164pp., 204x143mm, portrait frontis., fldg. sketch map (of the Ypres Salient), diagram in text. Printed for Private Circulation by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. 1918  #69291
[HLMainPic] Theodore Anthony Brown was born in 1889, educated at Tonbridge School and King's College, London. He was interested in the Tonbridge School Mission (at St Pancras) and Boys' Clubs, was employed in the City and was a member of the Cavalry Squadron of the Inns of Court O.T.C. He was gazetted to the 6th Dragoon Guards in August 1914 and served with them in France and Flanders from November 1914-February 1915 when he returned to the U.K. and transferred to the Buffs, or East Kent Regiment (Special Reserve). Was on active service with the 1st Battalion from August 1915 and was awarded the M.C. whilst Bombing Officer in 1916. He was killed in action in a minor attack near Loos whilst in temporary command of "B" Coy., on 15th April 1917, aged twenty-seven, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Contains letters from Ypres 1914 and 1915-16, then on the Somme including Battle of Flers-Courcelette (when he won his M.C. and witnessed the first tanks in action. His account of this event was published in the Tonbridgian in May 1917 and is reproduced here). Orig. buff cloth boards with blue cloth backstrip, gilt, with Buffs badge in blue to front board. Appealing & rare, inscribed "To Muriel from Rose February 1919" together with inserted letter from Rose Anthony Brown, one of his several sisters, which includes the sad statement that "Only four out of my six brothers have survived the war..." (three others were still on service).   £245

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