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Lest We Forget: A Book of Remembrance, Being a Short Summary of the Service & Sacrifice rendered to the Empire during the Great War by one of the many Patriotic Families of Wessex, The Popes of Wrackleford, Co. Dorset.
With a Foreword by Thomas Hardy, OM. 1st Ed., 152pp., 16 portraits, plate (view of Wrackleford House). Privately Printed "For the Use of the Family" at the Chiswick Press.
1919
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Portraits & war records of ten sons, four daughters & three sons-in-law of Alfred Pope, (together with a memoir of their energetic father & portraits of both parents). Three sons died: Lt.-Col. Edward Alexander Pope, DSO, who raised & commanded the 12th (S) Bn. Welsh Regt., 1914-17, but was commanding the 3rd (SR) Bn. at the time of his death in 1919 as a result of "disease contracted on active service." A veteran of the Boer War, he was wounded & won the DSO during his Western Front service; Capt. Charles Alfred Whiting Pope RAMC was drowned when the troopship Transylvania was torpedoed in the Med. on 4/5/17; 2nd Lt. Percy Paris Pope, 3rd attd. 1st Bn. Welsh Regt. was KiA in France on 2/10/15 during the battle of Loos (includes an account of this action by his CO). The husband of Evelyn Grace Pope, Lt.-Col. A.R. Haig-Brown, DSO, was KiA 25/3/18 commanding 23rd Bn. Middlesex Regiment. Others included three regular officers, Capt. Albert Victor Pope, 14th Hussars (extracts from his letters from Mespot. are included in the book), Major Decimus Pope, MC, 18th Hussars & Capt. Cyril Pope of the 1st Bedfordshire Regt. (PoW in Nov. 1914 at First Ypres); Lt. John Allen Pope, 11th KRRC served in France until invalided from the Somme with shell shock. Several daughters served as VADs. A remarkable family war record, the services of each individual described in some detail, several with extracts from letters &c., each with a fine portrait. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG & rare with loosely inserted presentation letter from the compiler, Alfred Pope, to J.S. Udal of the Inner Temple, who was author of Dorsetshire Folklore, with his ownership inscrip. Lacks the frontis. portrait of Mrs Alfred Pope o/w complete. See illustrations on our website.
£265
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