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HANKEY (Donald)
The Beloved Captain: Selected Chapters from "A Student in Arms."
1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 64pp. Melrose. nd [1917].
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Two volumes of "A Student in Arms" were published in 1915 & 1916; in them Hankey described life in the New Army. The work here offered is an extract of some of the more well-known chapters, including that mentioned in the title, a moving tribute to Captain Ronald Montagu Hardy, 7th Rifle Brigade, KiA 23rd July 1915 & commemorated on the Menin Gate. Donald William Alers Hankey was a heroic icon of the New Army ideal. Ed. at Rugby, he had been commissioned in the Royal Artillery 1903-06 but, following the death of his father, resigned to study at Oxford, travel & work with the Bermondsey Mission &c. He enlisted in the 7th (S) Bn. Rifle Brigade 1914 & as a corporal was wounded at Hooge on 30th July 1915, later commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment & KiA with the 1st Bn. on 12th October 1916. He has no known grave & is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
£25
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