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Letters, Essays & Verses of John Brown MC, MA (Oxon.). 1st Ed., 280pp., 194x138mm, 2 portraits. Edinburgh: Elliot. 1921  #69286
[HLMainPic] John Brown was educated at Merchiston Castle School & Balliol College, Oxford. He enlisted in the 9th (TF) Battalion Royal Scots & served with them in Belgium; received a commission in the Seaforth Highlanders in 1915, won the Military Cross in 1916 with the 7th (Service) Battalion & was shot by a sniper near Wytschaete on 11th April 1918 whilst serving with the 9th (Service) Battalion, the Pioneer battalion of the 9th (Scottish) Division. He was twenty-seven when he fell and is buried in Voormezeele Enclosure No. 3. Contains some letters from the Front, also Brown's account of "A" Company, 9th (Service) Battalion Royal Scots in Flanders, February-May 1915. Orig. rust brown cloth, blocked black to sp, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £165
In Memoriam Captain Harold Ludington Hemingway, Company F, 104th Infantry, USA. Born at New Haven, Connecticut, May 25, 1893. Died at Glorieux, France, October 21, 1918 of wounds received in action near Verdun. 1st Ed., 81pp., 222x182mm, portrait frontis., 6 photos., map. New Haven: Privately Printed at the Yale Unv. Press. 1920  #68151
[HLMainPic] A memoir of school & college life (Hopkins Grammar School & Yale College) then a career in commerce until his military service which commenced in May 1917. Arriving in France in Feb. 1918 he was in action at the Chemin des Dames, Chateau Thierry, & St. Mihiel, events which are described in interesting & engaging detail in his letters from the Front. Includes various letters from colleagues describing his services & the work of his regiment. Orig. blue paper covd. boards, gilt to front, with wheat cloth backstrip, this lacking a small paper lettering label, o/w VG. See illustrations on our website.   £65
Frederick Goodyear: Letters & Remains 1887-1917. 1st Ed., xv+193pp., portrait frontis. McBride Nast & Co. 1920  #69275
[HLMainPic] Memorial volume including letters from the Front. UCS & Brasenose College Oxford (where he was regarded as "unambitious & dilatory"); became Assistant Manager of the Oxford Univ. Press at Bombay, but came home in 1914 to enlist in the ranks of the Artist's Rifles: served with them in France from May-Sept. 1915 when he transferred to the RE (Meteorological Dept.) then commissioned in the Essex Regt. in Feb. 1917, joined the 2nd Essex on 16th March 1917, wounded at Fampoux during Battle of Arras, 12th May 1917 & Died of Wounds on the 23rd May inst. Contents include letters from India & around 45pp. letters from France 1915-17. These are followed by a selection of poetry & prose compositions. Blue cloth, gilt to spine, somewhat rubbed, generally VG.   £95
Kingsley Darling: A Mother's Tribute. 1st Ed., xi+307pp., 227x152mm, portrait frontis., 11 plates. Printed for Private Circulation. 1919  #69277
[HLMainPic] Captain James William Kingsley ("Lovey") Darling, born in 1894 and educated at Merchiston Castle School, enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots in August 1914, was commissioned in October and posted to Gallipoli in September 1915, where he was attached to the 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment. He later served with the 5th Royal Scots (later 5/6th Battalion) on the Western Front, was wounded in December 1917 and killed in action on 11th August 1918. He was twenty-four years old and is buried in Bouchoir New British Cemetery. (His family also erected a granite Celtic cross in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, in his memory.) The work almost entirely consists of his wartime letters from Gallipoli and France, together with a number of tributes and extracts from letters of condolence, also some copies of letters of condolence that Darling wrote to the mothers of fallen brother officers. "Lovey" Darling's letters contain some atmospheric passages; e.g. at Gallipoli in October 1915 "the hills are very pretty, and there are quite a number of trees about the place. At night the sunsets are very fine…" but in Krithia Nullah, "The trenches were a perfect maze, and terribly knocked about by shell fire. Dead lay here and there along the parapets, and along the trench itself, feet, hands, bits of body, etc., were sticking out. Several graves marked the spot where those who had fallen among friends lay, and slept their last sleep. Up on top of the nullah a Turk lay, almost falling over the edge of the cliff, with a big hole in his head." Purple cloth, gilt, regimental badge to front, VG with inscription "To Mrs A. Robertson. 11th August 1919,"   £165
Captain Harvey Blease, 15th Battalion the King's Liverpool Regiment, attached 1/7th Lancs. Fusiliers. Killed in Action in Gallipoli, August 7th, 1915. 1st Ed., 67pp., 200x143mm, portrait frontis. No imprint or date [c.1916]  #66584
[HLMainPic] Harvey Blease was the son of Walter and Mary Blease, of Sefton Drive, Liverpool; husband of Helen Dorothy Stanley Blease, of Rostherne, Blundellsands, Liverpool, and was educated at Sedbergh School. He was killed in action at Gallipoli on 7th August 1915, aged thirty-two, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. Contains his diary from 25th May 1915, embarking for the East, then on the Gallipoli peninsula from the beginning of July, where he was posted to the 1st/7th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. Includes descriptions of the line, the incessant firing of artillery and snipers and so forth. After two weeks he went to Imbros for a short rest then returned to Gallipoli. The diary continues to 3rd August with interesting daily entries. Orig. grey card wrappers, titled to front "Diary of Captain Harvey Blease." VG & rare. See illustrations on our website.   £220
The War Letters of Leonard & Walter Ewbank 1915-1917. 1st Ed., 80pp., 190x128mm. Printed by Butler & Tanner, For Private Circulation. nd [c.1920].  #66579
[HLMainPic] Sons of the Rev. John and Julia Helen Ewbank, of Cumberland. 2nd Lieutenant Leonard Ewbank was killed in action with 5th Battalion Border Regiment at Sanctuary Wood on 23rd February 1916, aged twenty-three. He is buried in Railway Dugouts (Transport Farm) Cemetery. Captain John Walter Ewbank was commissioned in the Border Regiment from Sandhurst in 1914, wounded at Neuve Chapelle with the 2nd Battalion, then served with the 1st Battalion at Gallipoli and later in France, where he won the Military Cross in 1916, a Bar to it in 1917 and the Croix de Guerre. He was killed in action at Cambrai on 30th November 1917 whilst serving on Brigade Staff, aged twenty-one, and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial. Contains interesting letters from both brothers. Orig. pale blue cloth, blocked black to front board. VG & rare with loosely inserted slip "With kindest regards from R.B. Ewbank." See illustration on our website.   £165
Geoffrey Watkins Smith. 1st Ed., 219pp., 197x133mm, portrait frontis., 5 plates, facsimile letter & menu card. Oxford: Printed for Private Circulation. 1917  #69281
[HLMainPic] Geoffrey Watkins Smith was born in 1881 at Beckenham, Kent. He was a Scholar at Winchester & New College, Oxford, taking a First and becoming a Fellow & Tutor at New College. A distinguished zoologist, he was commissioned in 13th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, in 1914 & commanded "A" Coy. in France until his death on the Somme on 10th July 1916 during the battalion's tragic attack at Contalmaison. He was thirty-four years old and is buried in Pozieres Military Cemetery. This memorial contains around 60pp. letters in training & at the front; also biography, lists of scientific publications &c. Grey paper covd. boards with wheat cloth backstrip. Number 91 of 125 individually numbered copies printed, "Each copy is to be numbered & presented to a near relation or intimate friend & the name inscribed." This copy presented to E.A. Elliott. Little wear, VG. See illustration on our website.   £225
Dan: A Memorial. 1st Ed., 283pp., 202x150mm, portrait frontis., 21 photos. & sketches. Printed for Private Circulation by R. & R. Clark Ltd., Edinburgh. 1918  #69282
[HLMainPic] Daniel Edward Bradby, born at Rugby in 1896, the son of a Rugby School housemaster (H.C. Bradby, compiler of the volume) & educated there, was commissioned in the Rifle Brigade in 1914 & joined the 9th (S) Bn. in France in Dec. 1915; became O.C. "B" Coy. in September 1916 (after the Battle of Flers-Courcelette) & was KiA near the Harp Redoubt during the Battle of Arras on 9th May 1917. He was twenty years old & is buried in Tilloy British Cemetery. Contains around 175pp. letters from the front, also lengthy extracts from various letters of condolence etc. Interestingly contains a (fairly indistinct) photograph of Bradby and another officer near the Harp Redoubt taken on the day of his death. In his final letter to his Mother, written on 8th April 1917 and left with a colleague ("I am giving this letter to some one or other who is staying behind to post if I get knocked out, so I hope you will never read it!") he wrote: "If I am killed you will at any rate know that I died trying to do my duty, and thinking always of you at home who I love so dearly." Orig. grey paper covered boards with wheat cloth backstrip & paper sp. label, VG & scarce.   £165
Letters written in the Trenches near Ypres between May & September, 1915, by H.M. Butterworth, 9th Rifle Brigade, who fell in action on September 25th, 1915. 1st Ed., 219x142mm, 84pp., portrait frontis. Wellington, NZ: Whitcombe & Tombs. 1916  #66577
[HLMainPic] Hugh Montagu Butterworth was Ed. at Marlborough & University College, Oxford, but left prematurely when his family emigrated to New Zealand. Became a schoolmaster at Wanganui College & returned to England in 1915 where he obtained a commission in the 9th (S) Battalion Rifle Brigade. He was killed in action during a diversionary attack near Ypres, in support of the Loos offensive, on 25th September 1915, has no known grave & is commemorated on the Menin Gate. He was twenty-nine. Memorial containing obituaries and tributes plus lengthy letters from the front during four months in the Ypres Salient, the last written before going into his last action: "I am leaving this in the hands of the Transport Officer, and if I get knocked out he will send it on to you. We are going into a big thing. It will be my pleasant duty to leap lightly over the parapet and lead D company over the delectable confusion of old trenches, crump holes, barbed wire, that lies between us and the Bosche, and take a portion of his line. Quo facto I shall then proceed to bomb down various communication trenches and take his second line. In the very unlikely event of my being alive by then I shall dig like blazes and if God is good, stop the Bosche counter-attack..." Orig. apple green cloth, titled in black to front board, little rubbed at extremities o/w VG & scarce. See illustrations on our website.   £220
The War Letters of Leonard & Walter Ewbank 1915-1917. 1st Ed., 80pp., 190x128mm. Printed by Butler & Tanner, For Private Circulation. nd [c.1920].  #69272
[HLMainPic] Sons of the Rev. John and Julia Helen Ewbank, of Cumberland. 2nd Lieutenant Leonard Ewbank was killed in action with 5th Battalion Border Regiment at Sanctuary Wood on 23rd February 1916, aged twenty-three. He is buried in Railway Dugouts (Transport Farm) Cemetery. Captain John Walter Ewbank was commissioned in the Border Regiment from Sandhurst in 1914, wounded at Neuve Chapelle with the 2nd Battalion, then served with the 1st Battalion at Gallipoli and later in France, where he won the Military Cross in 1916, a Bar to it in 1917 and the Croix de Guerre. He was killed in action at Cambrai on 30th November 1917 whilst serving on Brigade Staff, aged twenty-one, and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial. Contains interesting letters from both brothers. Orig. pale blue cloth, blocked black to front board. VG.   £145

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