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BERDINNER (H.F.) With the Heavies in Flanders 1914, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19: A Record of the Active Service of the 24th Heavy Battery RGA. 1st Ed., 143pp., 8 plates. Botolph Printing Works. 1922  #63204
[HLMainPic] One of six 60-pdr. batteries in the regular army of 1914: Western Front throughout the war. Awards lists. "Written with a shrewd eye for the significant or interesting." - Falls p.98. VG & scarce, inscribed on frontis. portrait: "Yours to the last round. Harold F. Berdinner" with an interesting two-page handwritten letter from him to another "ex-Sparks" (i.e. wireless operator) explaining that he published the book himself a a cost of £130 and was - in June 1923 - "still wanting about £30 'to register O.K.'" Orig. red cloth, titled in black, nice clean & interesting copy. See illustrations on our website.   £125

     




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