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On Safari: Experiences of a Gunner in the East African Campaign.
By F.C. 1st Ed., 90pp., orig. dec. card wraps., 5 plates. Cape Town: Juta.
1917
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Personal experiences inc. a short account of German South-West Africa in 1914-15 then mostly active service in German East as an artillery signaller &c. Orig. illustrated card wraps., VG throughout & rare. See illustration on our website.
£95
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Kenneth Gordon Garnett MC, RFA, 30 July 1892-22 August 1917.
1st Ed., 62pp., portrait frontis., 11 plates. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press.
1917
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A memoir by his Mother with selections from his letters from the Front followed by customary extracts from obituaries & letters of condolence. Garnett was born in 1892, Ed. at St. Paul's School & Trinity College Cambridge (rowed in the triumphant boat in the 1914 boat race). He was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery in Jan. 1915 & proceeded to France the following month, only to be accidentally wounded in March. He returned to the Front in Oct. 1915 & spent the winter in the Ypres Salient then, on 24th August 1916, during a bombardment of Delville Wood, he was shot in the neck & paralysed. He was convalescent in England for a year before his death from a relapse of his spinal wound & is buried in Wandsworth (Putney Vale) Cemetery. Orig. brown paper covd. boards with wheat cloth backstrip, titled in black to front & spine, VG. See illustration on our website..
£165
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Noel Ross & His Work.
Ed. by His Parents. 1st Ed., xiv+210pp., portrait frontis. Edward Arnold.
1919
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Noël Ross was born at Dunedin, New Zealand, & Ed. at the Terrace School, Wellington & Christ College, Christchurch. He joined the staff of a New Zealand newspaper & later wrote for The Times & Punch. He enlisted in the ranks of the Canterbury Rifles & served at Gallipoli where he was severely wounded by a shell at Anzac Cove. He was discharged, but reaching London obtained a commission in the Royal Artillery. He was still unfit, however, and medically boarded. He died of illness in England on 19th December 1917. Contains a memoir including details of his military service and examples of his prose including an account of the landing at Gallipoli written for The Times. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website
£145
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A German Deserter's War Experience.
1st UK Ed., translated by J. Koettgen. 254pp. Grant Richards.
1917
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The author, it is stated, 'escaped from Germany after fourteen months of fighting in France... [a] vivid description of the life of a common German soldier in the present war' - Preface. Orig. black cloth, minor wear, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Rhenish Prussia & Birkenfeld.
1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., iv+84pp., fldg. map in endpocket. HMSO. April
1919
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CONFIDENTIAL. No. 33 in a series of Handbooks Prepared under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, containing notes on the Geography, Political History, Social & Political Conditions & Economic Conditions of these territories. Orig. grey printed wraps., VG. See illustration on our website.
£125
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The Letters of Major Howard W. Beal, Headquarters First Division Medical Department, Killed in action July 18, 1918.
1st Ed., ix+75pp. Paris: J.R.E. Guild, Printer.
1926
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Rare memorial, based on the letters he wrote to his wife, of a surgeon with the American Expeditionary Force, attached to the 6th Field Artillery regiment, describing his experiences in & out of the line until shortly before his death in action (when he, with some others, was killed by an aerial bomb). Also contains a short memoir of the subject. Printed in Paris in a private edition of 100 copies "for relatives & friends." Beal is buried in the American Cemetery at Suresnes. Rebound in good quality qtr. calf over brown cloth boards with black leather lettering label to sp. See illustrations on our website.
£120
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The Lead Swinger: The Bivouac Journal of the 1/3rd West Riding Field Ambulance. Vol. I, September to December 1915.
Approx. 160pp., 4to, sketches &c. throughout. Sheffield: Northend Printers.
1916
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The first six numbers (+ Christmas 1915 Supplement) of superior unit journal of 'trench newspaper' originally locally printed & circulated within the unit on the Western Front & here reproduced in volume form. The Editor's introduction explains: "The articles were written & the sketches drawn in the trenches, the dressing station or the field hospital." Two further volumes were published 1916-19 & reprinted in the same form as this (scarcer first volume) in 1921. Orig. printed boards with cloth backstrip, somewhat worn, about VG. See illustration on our website.
£90
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The Path of Honour: Sgt. Basil T. Wilmer's Experiences in the Great War, 1914-1918.
1st Ed., 160pp., portrait frontis., 17 photos., plate of original battlefield grave, diagram, sketch map. Launceston, Tasmania: A.W. Birchall & Sons.
1919
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Diary from enlisting in August 1914 in 11th Bn. AIF, 1st Australian Div., training then landing at Gallipoli where wounded on the first day; rejoined after a few weeks convalescence then proceeded to Western Front where he exchanged into the Australian Field Artillery & was KiA with 3rd Battery AFA near Zillebeke on 21st July 1917, & buried at Reninghelst. Rare & detakled diary containing much of interest. Orig. dec. paper covd. boards, sp. chipped, generally VG. See illustrations on our website.
£250
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The Last Lap.
By "G," with Preface by E.B.O. 1st Ed., 141pp. VG in chipped dw. Melrose.
1917
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Reproduction from the Morning Post of the observations on the Western Front of one who "has served as a war correspondent in many parts of the world & seen the evolution of modern methods with his own eyes." This work is an exhortation to further effort to complete the job, with Victory in sight. Includes chapters on Our Infantry: the then recent Battle of Messines: German Man-Power; The German Moral &c. Interesting & scarce. I believe 'E.B.O.' to be E.B. Osborn, journalist & another writer on military matters, while the identity of 'G' remains elusive to me. Orig. blue cloth, titled in paler blue, VG in chipped dw. Scarce thus. See illustration on our website.
£75
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The Northern Barrage: Mine Force, United States Atlantic Fleet, The North Sea 1918.
Edited by All Hands. 1st Ed., 127pp., 4to, photos. & sketches throughout. Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute.
1919
#66137
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Fully illustrated with photos. of all USN vessels & crews of Mine Force, based at Invergordon &c. during this period. Several hundred photos. (inc. shore bases, ships at sea, mining eqpt. in use &c.) + supporting text notes, endorsements &c. Nicely produced record of this work. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little marked & worn, generally VG. See illustrations on our website.
£65
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