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GIBBS (W.C.)
A Record of the 203rd Field Company (Cambs.) Royal Engineers 1915-1919.
1st Ed., viii+117pp. Cambridge: Heffer.
1921
#70637
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Raised in 1914, the unit served in France/Flanders from Jan. 1916 to the armistice with the 33rd Division, including Somme 1916, Arras, Ypres 1917 & German offensives of 1918. A most interesting regimental history-cum-personal memoir, with awards roll at end. Orig. grey paper covd. boards, titled in black to front & sp., top half-inch of sp. panel missing, o/w VG with small label pasted onto ffep recording presentation to Mr. J. Peck of the 203rd Coy. With the Compliments of Col. Harding. Note: The first leaf of the main text (pp.1/2) has been replaced, pasted on to the stubb of the original: presumably necessitated by a text error. Rare.
£145
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