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WAGGER [Pseud. of LONGLEY (Cecil William, MM)]
Battery Flashes.
1st Ed., v+183pp. Murray.
1916
#63048
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Contemp. personal account of a signaller in a Field Artillery brigade, with a good account of the organisation & training of his unit in England until March 1915 then at the front in Belgium & France until Feb. 1916. The blurb for this book on another of the publisher's works (De Loghe, 'The Straits Impregnable') states: "Vivid pen pictures of the experiences of a gunner from raw recruit to sergeant with his battery in action. The real thing in the real manner." No. 1613 Gunner, later Sgt. & finally 2nd Lt., Cecil William Longley served with B/240th (South Midland) Bde. RFA (TF) & was awarded the MM, LG 11/11/1916. He was commissioned in the RFA on 10/8/1817. Orig. pictorial wheat cloth, minor wear, VG & scarce See illustration on our website.
£65
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