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BUCKLEY (Francis)
Q.6.A. And Other Places: Recollections of 1916, 1917, 1918.
1st Ed., x+239pp., several sketches by the author & several sketch maps. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. [for the Author].
1920
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A lost classic, one of the very best & yet least known, rare & desirable unvarnished accounts of service life & trench warfare from Jan. 1916 onwards as a subaltern, later company commander, 1st/7th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers (Buckley also wrote the battalion's war history). Includes experiences in the Ypres Salient (at Kemmel, St Eloi &c.) in the spring of 1916, Battles of the Somme, Arras & Passchendaele, the German Offensive 1918 & Final Advance, as well as the normal routine of trenches & billets, training courses & occasional leaves. Orig. red cloth, blocked black, unfortunately rather stained & worn, rear free ep lacking, yet generally sound, privately published & rare, inscribed "With the Author's Compliments" & numbered 141.
£145
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