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Artillery & Trench Mortar Memories, 32nd Division.
1st Ed., 687pp. Printed by Unwin Bros.
1932
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Very substantial compilation by Old Comrades, containing diaries of Lt. A.B. Scott, MC, of "X" & "W" TM Batteries & Reconnaissance Officer, 32nd Div. Artillery HQ; Rev. R.E. Grice-Hutchinson, MC, Chaplain, 32nd Div. Artillery; late Major L. Heathcote-Amory, Staff Capt., 32nd Div. Artillery (DoW Aug. 1918) & brief recollections by seven others. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, sp. tanned/little marked o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£125
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An Australian in the R.F.A., Being Letters & Diary of Adrian Consett Stephen, Lieut., R.F.A., MC, CdeG.
1st Ed., xviii+200pp., portrait frontis. Sydney: Penfold.
1918
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Adrian Consett Stephen was ed. at Sydney Grammar School & St Paul's College in the University of Sydney. He graduated B.A. in 1913 and obtained his LL.B. in 1915. Had he not decided to enlist he would have been called to the Bar. However, he was commissioned in the RFA on 1st June 1915 and proceeded to France in August. He was initially attached to a Trench Mortar Battery, then to "D" Battery 242 Army Brigade R.F.A. Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1917, later awarded the MC during operations at Passchendaele (he was in temporary command of the battery for several months, with acting rank of Major). He was KiA 14th March 1918 & is buried in La Clytte Military Cemetery. A book of his dramatic compositions written before the war was published under the title 'Four Plays' by Penfold & Co. in 1918. Contains a lengthy obituary notice published in the Sydney Morning Herald, a Preface by his father & his letters from the Front from August 1915 onwards including a most interesting account of artillery work on the Somme, containing his impressions of the first day of the offensive, the attack at Pozières later in July and the capture of Thiepval on 26th September. In 1917 he was involved in the capture of Vimy Ridge and the Third Battle of Ypres. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, covers damp speckled o/w VG, inscribed "L.B. Heath in memory of his friend The Auithor." See illistration on our website.
£125
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Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book: A Regimental Record written & illustrated for the most part by artillerymen while serving in the line during the Great War.
1st Ed., xxiv+408pp., folio, col. & b/w plates throughout, sketches &c. Bell.
1920
#68588
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A superb memorial record that contains numerous accounts of different units & actions, individual experiences &c. as well as the Roll of Honour of officers. Orig. cloth, covers rather rubbed & worn but overall very sound, near VG, internally clean. See illustration on our website.
£50
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Lines of Fire: No. 1 R.G.A. Officer Cadet School Trowbridge. Vol. 1, No. 8, November 1918.
Orig. dec. wraps., 28pp., several cartoons. Massey & Co., Printers, Trowbridge. Contemp.
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Souvenir of the School, largely humorous. Orig. dec. wraps., VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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A BATTERY COMMANDER:
Reflections & Recollections. France 1915.
16pp., fldg. map, sketch. Offprint from Jnl. of the RA.
1939
#68606
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Operating around Givenchy &c. Later maroon cloth with paper label. See illustration on our website.
£15
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ASSHER (Ben) [Pseud. of BORADAILE (Major Colin, MC, RGA)]
A Nomad Under Arms: The Chronicle of an Artilleryman from 1914 to the Armistice.
1st Ed., 368pp., frontis. & 10 plates, 7 maps (4 fldg.). Witherby.
1931
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A young regular, the author was posted, in November 1914, to a 4.7-inch how. battery near Kemmel Hill; remained with them in this area until posted as a captain to a New Army 60-pdr. battery on the Somme front in Jan. 1916. Wounded by a shell in Feb. 1917 he was then at home until July, returning to the front in time for Passchendaele & commanded a battery through most of 1918. Orig. brown cloth, blocked black, near fine & scarce account with good maps & interesting photos. taken by the author. See illustration on our website.
£125
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BECKE (Major A.F., late RFA)
The Coming of the Creeping Barrage.
24pp., fldg. map. Offprint from Jnl. of the RA, Vol. LVIII.
#68607
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Inc. Somme 1916, with fldg. map of 1/7/16. Later maroon cloth with paper label. See illustration on our website.
£15
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BOYD (Donald [F., MC])
Salute of Guns.
1st Ed., 389pp., 4 plates (from aerial photos.). Cape.
1930
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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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BRAGG (Sir Lawrence) DOWSON (Major-Gen. A.H.) & HEMMING (Lt.-Col. H.H.)
Artillery Survey in the First World War.
1st Ed., 43pp. Field Survey Assoc.
1971
#68474
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Covers survey, counter battery work, flash spotting & sound ranging, including personal experience of the authors. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£65
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BROWNLOW (Capt. C.A.L., DSO)
The Breaking of the Storm.
1st Ed., vii+232pp., map ep. Methuen.
1918
#68447
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Excellent account of the first months of the war by a Royal Field Artillery officer with a Brigade Ammunition Column (& later a battery) in the 3rd Division: contains Mobilisation, Mons, Le Cateau, the Aisne, Flanders &c. Falls stated: "Where we have a professional soldier with the gift of writing, we get something very much more valuable than the much commoner output of the professional soldier who cannot write or the professional writer who knows nothing of soldiering. This is particularly true of the first days of the War. Captain Brownlow, a good writer & a soldier obviously devoted to his profession, here gives an interesting account of the Retreat from Mons, the Advance to the Aisne, & the subsequent move to Flanders. His pen-pictures are extraordinarily interesting. He was, however, unfortunately serving with a brigade ammunition column... so that his view of the actual fighting was limited." Orig. blue cloth, gilt, rather worn & rear cover dampstained, o/w generally VG, hence inexpensive copy & rare. See illustration on our website.
£50
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