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[DONE (Brig.-Gen. H.R., CMG, DSO)]
Some Operations of the 145th & 144th Infantry Brigades in France & Italy. 1916-1918.
1st Ed., 36pp. No imprint or date but c.1920s.
#70638
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Rare record of 48th Division ops. on the Somme in July-Aug. 1916; East of Peronne in March-April 1917; Passchendaele, then to the Asiago Plateau in 1918. Casualty statistics &c. for each action. Lists of commanders & staff. Battalions in the Brigade included 4th, 5th & 6th Glosters, 7th & 8th Worcesters, 4th Berks., 4th Ox. & Bucks., 1st Bucks Bn. Orig. grey cloth, gilt to front, VG & rare, with ownership inscrip. of G.S. Castle (presumably a member of one of these formations) & a loosely inserted large folding printed leaf "Extract from the Diary of a One-Four Glouc., Story of a Battle" which is an anonymous personal account of one soldier's experiences of the attack on the Leipsig [sic] Redoubt in August 1916. Probably privately circulated by the author.
£125
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