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Quis Separabit? Who Shall Separate Us? A Meditation.
1st Ed., 32pp., 188x128mm, portrait frontis. Jarrolds (Publishers) London Ltd.
#69293
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Memoir of Charles Dean ("Doox") Prangley, who was born in 1897, son of Rev. Charles Wilton Prangley and Elizabeth Prangley of Bexwell Rectory, Norfolk. His mother died when he was two. He was educated at Marlborough (and had secured a place at Jesus College, Cambridge) and was commissioned in the Lincolnshire Regiment (Special Reserve) in August 1915. He left for the Front on 13th July 1916 and was killed in action on the 26th September with the 1st Battalion in the attack on Guedecourt. He was nineteen years old and is buried in Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs (his original wooden cross grave marker is in St Mary's Church, Bexwell). Contains a Foreword by his Headmaster, a short memoir by C.W.P. (i.e. his father) and a selection of poems and prayers composed in his memory. Note: an elaborate, unique commemorative book with illuminated pages, photographs mounted on silk taken from his mother's wedding dress, bound in covers made from wood from the garden of Bexwell Rectory with a gold cross on the front made out of his mother's wedding ring, is preserved in St George's Memorial Church, Ypres. Orig. grey paper covered boards with decorative design (repeated on endpapers) incorporating 'Quis Separabit' and 'Pro Patria' legends, brown cloth backstrip. VG & rare.
£165
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