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An Australian in the R.F.A., Being Letters & Diary of Adrian Consett Stephen, Lieut., R.F.A., MC, CdeG.
1st Ed., xviii+200pp., portrait frontis. Sydney: Penfold.
1918
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Adrian Consett Stephen was ed. at Sydney Grammar School & St Paul's College in the University of Sydney. He graduated B.A. in 1913 and obtained his LL.B. in 1915. Had he not decided to enlist he would have been called to the Bar. However, he was commissioned in the RFA on 1st June 1915 and proceeded to France in August. He was initially attached to a Trench Mortar Battery, then to "D" Battery 242 Army Brigade R.F.A. Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1917, later awarded the MC during operations at Passchendaele (he was in temporary command of the battery for several months, with acting rank of Major). He was KiA 14th March 1918 & is buried in La Clytte Military Cemetery. A book of his dramatic compositions written before the war was published under the title 'Four Plays' by Penfold & Co. in 1918. Contains a lengthy obituary notice published in the Sydney Morning Herald, a Preface by his father & his letters from the Front from August 1915 onwards including a most interesting account of artillery work on the Somme, containing his impressions of the first day of the offensive, the attack at Pozières later in July and the capture of Thiepval on 26th September. In 1917 he was involved in the capture of Vimy Ridge and the Third Battle of Ypres. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, covers damp speckled o/w VG, inscribed "L.B. Heath in memory of his friend The Auithor." See illistration on our website.
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