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A Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance in Peace & War. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 60pp. No imprint/date (c.1919)  #66930
[HLMainPic] 2nd South Midland Mounted Field Ambulance, TF, served in Gallipoli, Egypt & Palestine. Detailed appendices include details of those KiA, DoW, wounded, noting date & location; roll of awards & a complete nominal roll of the unit noting theatres of war in which each member served. Orig. dec. paper wraps., VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £95
Comforts for the Wounded in Our Hospitals. Written by the Staff of Fort Pitt Hospital. 1st Ed., orig. pictorial wraps., 36pp., approx. 20 photos. Charham, Mackay & Co. on Behalf of the Committee of the Comforts Fund, [Central Military Hospital, Fort Pitt, Chatham]. 1915  #68378
[HLMainPic] Illustrated record of work at this military hospital in Chatham, 1914-15, including Surgical Division, Operating Theatre, Radiant Heat & Massage Dept., Dispensary, &c. Orig. pictorial wraps., little chipped/rubbed, generally VG & scarce contemporary souvenir.   £60
Ian Macfarlane: Soldier and Medical Missionary. By N.C.M. [i.e. his father Revd. Norman C. Macfarlane], Foreword by Rev. James Reid, M.A., Eastbourne. 2nd Ed., 108pp., 184x122mm, portrait frontis., one other plate. Juniper Green, Midlothian: Josiah Livingstone. nd (c.1920). 1920  #69322
[HLMainPic] Ian Macfarlane was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University (Student of Medicine, 1905-11). Commissioned in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1915, he died of typhus on 18th July 1917 whilst serving with the Egyptian Hospital, Khan Yunus, and is buried in the Kantara War Memorial Cemetery. He was twenty-nine years old. A memoir of his youth and description of his work for the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society in Nazareth and Damascus, followed by his letters, including a small selection from France and Egypt 1915-17. Orig. printed wraps., VG.   £60
Letters from Roger I. Lee, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army Medical Corps, 1917-1918. 1st Ed., [vi]+377pp., portrait frontis., 7 photos., one plate reproducing British MiD certificate & US Army Citation. Brookline, Mass., Privately Printed. 1962  #68177
[HLMainPic] Detailed letters between May 1917 & Jan. 1919 of Roger Irving Lee (1881-1964) who was a distinguished physician & early pioneer of blood transfusion. He served in France with the Harvard Medical Unit & as consultant to 3rd Corps, A.E.F. Orig. blue cloth with red lettering label to sp., VG with loosely inserted personal letter from the author loosely inserted. See illustration on our website.   £35
On Active Service: 54th Field Ambulance R.A.M.C., A.T.N. (18th Division) 1915-16-17-18. 1st Ed., 38pp. Norwich: Jarrolds. 1918  #66944
[HLMainPic] A brief history of their movements with complete nominal roll (including attached ASC), Roll of Honour. Orig. wheat cloth, somewhat stained, o/w VG with pencil ownership inscrip. of Pte. J.G. Atkinson 22971 54th Field Amb. France. Scarce. See illustration on our website.   £65
Royal Army Medical Corps Training. 1911. ix+453pp., num. figs./diagrams (several in colour). HMSO. 1911  #67950
[HLMainPic] Training in duties in the Field, care of sick & wounded, first aid, nursing &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, worn, sound. See illustration on our website.   £20
The 2/1st London Field Ambulance: An Outline of the 4 1/2 Years Service of a Unit of the 56th Division at Home & Abroad during the Great War 1914-1918. 1st Ed., 104pp., portrait frontis., 8 photos., 2 fldg. maps. Morton, Burt & Sons Ltd. 1924  #66927
[HLMainPic] Inc. Battle of the Somme 1916 when thousands poured through their ADS located at Hebuterne (of which there are several interesting photos.) & back to the MDS at Couin. Later at Arras in 1917 & 1918, Third Ypres, March Retreat &c. Locations of MDSs &c. shown on fldg. map. Roll of Hon., awards. Sp. & corners little rubbed, some splitting to spine, original ownership inscrip. on front paste-down heavily obliterated with black ink, generally sound, superior edition bound in full brown morocco, gilt to front. Rare. See illustration on our website.   £95
The Lead Swinger: The Bivouac Journal of the 1/3rd West Riding Field Ambulance. Volume I, September to December 1915. [Together with:] Volumes II & III, March 1916-March 1919. Vol. I approx. 160pp., 4to, sketches &c. throughout & Vols. II & III bound together, 545pp., 4to, sketches &c. throughout. Sheffield: Northend Printers.1916/1921.  #67003
[HLMainPic] One of the best unit journals of the war, originally published in manuscript on the Western Front & here reproduced in volume form. The first resissued in 1916 & Vols. II & III in 1921. The Editor's introduction explains: "Articles have been written... in the trenches of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle & Thiepval... Temporary editorial offices have consisted of huts, tents, bivouacs, dug-outs, ruined houses, barns & cow-sheds... Many long & adventurous journeys have been undertaken by the box containing the precious manuscript..." Orig. dec. printed paper covd. boards with cloth backstrips, both volumes VG. See illustrations on our website.   £165
Two Years After, or Twelve Months of Armageddon: Some Reminiscences of A Temporary Regimental Sawbones 1915-1916. 1st Ed., [v]+105pp. Printed for Private Circulation Only. 1918  #67840
[HLMainPic] Interesting & exceptionally rare privately printed memoirs of "N.D.M." [i.e. N.D. Mackay], serving at a General Hospital in France then attached as MO to the London Scottish (1st Bn. 14th London Regt.) in Oct. 1915. Immediate recollections of service & episodes in France 1915-16 in two main sections: "A Winter in the Loos Salient" & "The Lighter Side of War," the latter in three parts, "At Home & at the Base, B.E.F.," "In & Out of the Trenches" & "In & Out of the Trenches (concluded)." Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front & sp., VG with ink author's initiald to ffep & neat pencil notes of errata in his hand to rear ep. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to sp. & front, sp. dull o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £245
With the 1st/1st South Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance: Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, Salonica 1914-1918. 1st Ed., [iv]+63pp. No imprint/date, but label to rear paste-down of Globe Printing & Binding Works, Aston, Birmingham. [c.1920]  #65951
[HLMainPic] Arriving at Alexandria in April 1915 the Ambulance spent several months dealing with streams of wounded from Gallipoli. A detachment served at Gallipoli as reinforcement to 2nd Fd. Amb., another section served in Salonica (there is an account of these sub-units' experiences in the text) while the main body took part in the Senussi campaign. Roll of Hon., awards. Orig. red cloth, gilt to front, VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £145

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