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Letters and Papers of Algernon Hyde Villiers, with a Memorial.
With a Memoir by Harry Graham. 1st Ed., vii+200pp., 220x146mm, portrait frontis. SPCK.
1919
#69335
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Algernon Villiers, a deeply religious and spiritual man as evidenced by the memoir and the contents of his letters (although they do not exclude military details and an account of his active service experience) was the youngest son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Hyde Villiers, P.C., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. (sometime British Minister and Ambassador at Brussels), and Lady Villiers; he married Beatrix Villiers (later The Hon. Mrs. Walter Gibbs), of Stanstead Lodge, Stanstead Abbots, Herts., in 1912. He was educated at Wellington College and Magdalen College, Oxford, then entered a stockbroker's office. He enlisted in 1914 and went to Egypt as a Trooper in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry before returning for a commission in the Lothian and Borders Horse early in 1915. Villiers later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, went to France in July 1917 and was killed in action on 23rd November 1917 at Bourlon Wood with the 121st Company M.G.C. He was thirty-one and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial (although originally buried in the cemetery at Anneux). The memoir is followed by letters from Egypt and the United Kingdom, 1914-17, then around 100pp. of letters from the Western Front followed by some zealously Christian "Papers read to Machine-Gun Pupils." Orig. pale blue cloth, gilt to front and spine, rather rubbed & worn, sound.
£75
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