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Dennis Ely, Captain Durham Light Infantry.
1st Ed., 40pp., 204x138mm, portrait frontis. Oxford, Frederick Hall, Printer to the University.
1916
#69280
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Slim but moving memorial volume to Dennis Herbert James Ely, born in 1896 and Ed. at Ayr Academy, Whitgift (where he was a segeant in the OTC). Enlisted in Public Schools Brigade 1914 then gazetted to the Durham Light Infantry on 31st October 1914. In October 1915 he was sent with a draft to the 15th (Service Battalion, was slightly wounded in January 1916, wounded again then Killed in Action on 1st July 1916. He has no known grave, is commemorated on the Thiepval memorial, and was twenty years old. Memoir and extracts from letters in training and from France 1915-16, also an account of the 15th DLI on 1st July 1916 "derived partly from the notes written by his Colonel on his death-bed... partly from the letters of brother officers & men." Orig. pale blue paper covered boards with wheat backstrip, blocked black to spine, VG, nice copy. See illustrations on our website.
£165
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