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BOYD (Donald [F., MC])
Salute of Guns.
1st Ed., 389pp., 4 plates (from aerial photos.). Cape.
1930
#65955
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Eloquent & scarce memoirs of war commissioned RFA officer in France May 1915-Oct. 1918 (with one six-month break); much on the Somme, 3rd Ypres & March Retreat. The late Bob Wyatt included the work in his revised edition of Falls (Greenhill, 1989): "...describes attitudes of Indian Army Regulars to the newly joined schoolboys; the Somme, Hill 60, Arras & the Spring Retreat are all covered with the sort of skill one usually expects only from writers such as Sassoon & Blunden. The story is told here of the deserters who lived in High Wood who came out at night to search for food amongst the corpses & when the Gunners went out to capture them seven or eight surrendered & the rest were bombed in their dug-out..." Orig. orange cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£100
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CUST (L.G.A., Lieut., RFA)
From Ploegsteert to Graudenz: The Story of a Prisoner-of-War.
1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., [v]+77pp., frontis., plate, 4 photos. Privately Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.
1919
#53917
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Very rare memoirs privately published in a small limited edition. Lionel George Archer Cust, 85th Batt. RFA, was captured in the Catacombs, Ploegsteert, 11th April 1918 during the Lys offensive, whilst acting as liaison officer to 7th Inf. Bde. He describes ops. around Messines 7-11 April then experiences of capture & life at Rastatt & Graudenz PoW camps. VG, with advert loosely inserted offering copies at 5/-, available from the printer at Eton College, the author's father at Datchet House, Datchet, & Hatchards. See illustration on our website.
£125
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DAVSON (Lt.-Col. H.M., CMG, DSO)
Memoirs of the Great War.
1st Ed., viii+172pp., portrait frontis. Aldershot: G&P.
1964
#63533
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Rare posthumously published memoir in a very limited edition, no. 49 of just 100 copies printed. Good account of the hazards of training a reconstituted 'G' Battery RHA, then to France with the 8th Div. in Oct. 1914; after a few weeks in action at Kemmel he was posted to command a howitzer brigade in 6th Div., served in the Ypres Salient during 1915 & 1916 until posted to the 35th (Bantam) Div. - of which he later wrote the history - on the Somme. Later served with that Division at Arras, Passchendaele, Spring Offensive, Flanders 1918 &c. A very well written personal account containing much of interest. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£245
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