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George Buchanan Smith 1890-1915.
1st Ed., vii+142pp., 223x179mm, portrait frontis., 8 photos. Glasgow: Printed by Maclehose, For Private Circulation.
1916
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George Buchanan Smith was a son of the Very Rev. Sir George Adam Smith and Lady Smith, of Aberdeen. He was born in October 1890, educated at Glasgow Academy (where he was in the Cadet Corps) and the University of Glasgow (where he was a vocal student and secretary of the Liberal Club). He then entered the legal profession but very soon after graduating (LL.B.) at Aberdeen in June 1914, war broke out and he was promptly commissioned in the Gordon Highlanders (Special Reserve). He was posted to the 1st Battalion in Flanders in December, where he was wounded in his first engagement, on 14th inst, just two days after arriving, in a local attack between Kemmel and Wytschaete. He lost a middle finger of his left hand but after several months in hospital and rather longer convalescing he went out to the 2nd Battalion in August 1915 and was killed in action on 25th September, the first day of the Battle of Loos, aged twenty-four. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Contains a detailed memoir of his early life and student days, an account of his two brief periods of active service (including contributions by comrades), extracts from his letters written from France, August-September 1915, numerous letters of condolence and so forth. Orig. Grey paper covered boards, blocked in black to front and spine, sp. worn, generally VG with presentation letter from the subject's mother affixed to front paste-down. See illustrations on our website.
£260
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