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CLAY (Charles) Ed.
D.R. Brandt: Some of His Letters.
With an Introductory Chapter by Ralph Furse. 1st Ed., xxiv+151pp., 206x150mm, portrait frontis. John Murray.
1920
#69283
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Druce Robert ("Bob") Brandt was born in 1887, educated at Harrow 1901-06 (Captain of School), Balliol College, Oxford, 1906-10 and Fellow of Brasenose 1910-13. Commissioned in the Rifle Brigade (Special Reserve) in August 1914, he joined 1st Battalion in France in May 1915 and was killed in action on the 6th July at International Trench near Boesinghe. He was twenty-seven, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. Memoir and correspondence, mainly pre-war, but containing letters written when training with the 6th (Special Reserve) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, at Sheppey, and several moving letters from the Front. On 16th May 1915 he wrote to his godson: "…in a day or two I shall be going out to join my regiment in France. I hate war, and I hope you will always hate it, but we all have to do our best for England, and we know that we are fighting for what is good and right. Germany is like a big boy who will bully and torture a boy much smaller than himself… and if we cannot stop her now then she will go on from bad to worse and no Englishman will be able to hold up his head… if there is ever a country which behaves like Germany when you grow up to be a man, then you will do the same. But we hope that there will never be any need for that, and that is why we are all doing our best now." A month later, in the line, he comments obliquely on shell-shortage: "I can't conceive why the whole thing wasn't organised last year. Certainly in this part of the line more German heavies come over than we send back. But that may be a question of policy, not of ammunition…" Orig. rifle green cloth, gilt to sp., VG & rare. See illustrations on our website.
£165
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