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Letters of Norman Crawford MacLehose Lieut. 8th City of London Bn. (Post Office Rifles) August 1914-May 1915.
1st Ed., [ii]+89pp., 198x135mm, portrait frontis. Glasgow: Printed at the University Press by Robert MacLehose and Co. Ltd. 1916.
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Norman Crawford MacLehose was the second son of Norman Macmillan MacLehose, a Harley Street opthalmic surgeon, and of Olive, his wife. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Officers' Training Corps. He took a keen interest in military history. While reading for the Bar he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. and received a commission in the Post Office Rifles in 1913. He went to France with his Battalion in March 1915 and participated in the Battle of Festubert in May. On 26th May, towards the end of several days' operations he was shot by a sniper while helping to consolidate a position in a captured German trench. He was twenty-six years old and is buried in Post Office Rifles Cemetery, Festubert (described by a contemporary as "one of the little military cemeteries at Le Marais, just west of Festubert, on the road from Béthune.") Contains letters written to several family members from training camps in England 1914-15 then from France containing interesting descriptions of billets, the front line area and trench life in the low lying region near Béthune. (A note explains that "As these letters are printed only for near and intimate friends, it has been thought best to leave them as they stand, not omitting details which otherwise might seem too trivial."). Pale blue paper covered boards and cloth backstrip, gilt to spine and black to front, VG with loosely inserted letter from his mother, Olive, to a family friend explaining the circumstances of publication &c.
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