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Rifle Brigade   39 Books
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Dan: A Memorial. 1st Ed., 283pp., 202x150mm, portrait frontis., 21 photos. & sketches. Printed for Private Circulation by R. & R. Clark Ltd., Edinburgh. 1918  #67357
[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 with contemp. owenership inscrip. of "C. Polgreen Lt." (Note: Lt. J.C.V. Polgreen was a brother officer in the 9th Rifgle Brigade.) Rare. See illustration on our website.   £225
Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth, Captain 7th Rifle Brigade, Staff-Captain 218th Infantry Brigade, 1890-1917. 1st Ed., 38pp., real photo. portrait frontis., plate, sketch map. Printed for Private Circulation at the Chiswick Press. 1918  #66005
[HLMainPic] Second son of Lord Shuttleworth. Eton & Balliol & called to the Bar; Rifle Brigade 1914 & went to France with 7th Bn. In action in the fire attack at Hooge (of which he leaves an excellent lengthy account with a sketch) & in 1916 was invalided to the UK where he was killed in a motor cycle accident in 1917 on the eve of returning to the front. He married in 1914 & left two infant children. Includes a short biographical memoir, a valuable account of the liquid fire attack at Hooge when the 7th RB was rushed up in support of the 8th, who had borne the brunt of the attack. Orig. green cloth, titled in white to sp., little split o/w VG & rare, inscribed by the subject's wife (who compiled this memorial), "For General Martin from Sibell Kay-Shuttleworth on the 1st Anniversary July 10th 1918. In memory of 'Ted'" See illustration on our website.   £245
James Colin MacLehose 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade 1897-1917. 1st Ed., 39pp., 5 portraits, 2 other plates. Glasgow: Printed for Private Circulation at the University Press. 1918  #67474
[HLMainPic] James Colin MacLehose was elder son of J.C. MacLehose, publisher to Glasgow University, and his wife Mary. He was educated at Rugby, 1911-16; from school he went to the 4th Officers' Cadet Battalion at Oxford, was commissioned in the Rifle Brigade in November and joined the 16th (Service) Battalion in France in January 1917. He was killed in action on 14th February – rather less than six weeks after arriving – his last words as he was wounded being "Carry on, men, carry on." He was leading a raiding party in a night raid east of Ypres and had not even reached the German wire when mortally wounded; the raid failed, the wire being uncut by the artillery preparation. He lies in Brandhoek Military Cemetery and was nineteen years of age. Contains a memoir of his life with recollections by contemporaries. Orig. brown paper covd. boards with leather lettering label to spine. VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
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
Standing Orders of the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own). viii+94pp. (with blank interleaves). Chatham: G&P. 1891  #65748
[HLMainPic] Customary regimental organisation, duties, &c. Orig. green cloth, somewhat worn but near VG with pencil ownership inscrip. of E.A.F. Dawson (Ed. Eton, served as a regular officer in the RB 1885-1905 & commanded the 6th Special Reserve Bn. 1911-1917. Served in Boer War). See illustration on our website.   £30
The History of the London Rifle Brigade 1859-1919. 1st Ed., text & mapcase: xx+515p., 6 plates, 17 sketch maps in text + 5 lge. fldg. maps in separate case. Constable. 1921  #63056
[HLMainPic] 5th Londons F&F 1914-18 Plugstreet, 2nd Ypres, 1/7/16 at Gommecourt &c. Detailed & readable history with num. anecdotes &c. Appendices inc. officers' services, awards. Complete: text + 5 fldg. maps in separate mapcase. Orig. green cloth, silver gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £50
The Making of an Officer: or, A Boy's Life Told in His Letters by the Late Captain Arthur Coke Burnell, 2nd Bn. Rifle Brigade. 1st Ed., viii+190pp., 220x184mm, portrait frontis., 8 plates. Winchester: Printed by Warren & Sons for Private Circulation. 1916  #65998
[HLMainPic] Arthur Coke Burnell was born in 1894, educated at West Downs, Winchester & Sandhurst: commissioned in the Rifle Brigade 1913 & joined the 4th Battalion in India; to France in Dec. 1914 as a Platoon Commander in "D" Coy., in action at St Eloi & 2nd Ypres (Acting Adjutant during this battle), wounded in May & after a few months in England joined the 2nd Bn. (commanded by his brother in law, Frank Nugent) as MG Officer in October 1915. He became a Company Commander & was KiA on the evening of 18th March 1916, trying to bring in a man who had been wounded with a wiring party in No-Man's-Land. He was 21 & is buried in the Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix. Burnell was a typical keen, regimentally minded, young regular officer, unreflective but conscientious & brave. He was proud to be appointed Adjutant during the Second Battle of Ypres, "it is really a very great thing for me to have done Adjutant on active service, something that is remembered later on, if there ever is an end to this show! This is about the greatest success I have had since joining, & I can't help feeling that my career as a soldier has been rather a success. I think the Army has a higher opinion of me than Winchester College ever formed." Appealing memorial with interesting letters from school and regiment (both in India and at the Front), a fine portrait in full dress, others in khaki including several taken in or near front line trenches. Orig. half white buckram, rifle green cloth boards, gilt, with badges of the RMC and Rifle Brigade to front board, VG with comp. slip from his father inserted. Rare. See illustrations on our website.   £275
The Rifle Brigade Chronicle 1918. 1st Ed., vi+352pp., 2 fldg. maps. For the RB. 1919  #61918
[HLMainPic] This edition includes war diaries of all regular & service bns. for the year 1915, various useful rolls of officers, awards, several good letters from the front, officers' obituaries &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
The Rifle Brigade Chronicle 1919. 1st Ed., iv+240pp. For the RB. 1921  #64665
[HLMainPic] This edition includes detailed war diaries of the four regular bns. 1916-1918, also various other regimental records & complete index to Chronicles 1909-1919. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £50
Two Men: A Memoir. Compiled by Hugh Howson. 1st Ed., viii+302pp., 2 portraits, 4 plates. Oxford: Univ. Press. 1919  #67477
[HLMainPic] A joint memoir of E.H.L. Southwell & M.G. White, both of whom were masters at Shrewsbury School, & close friends who referred to one another as "Man" and were collectively known as "The Men." Both were commissioned in the Rifle Brigade early in the War, both were killed on the Somme and both are commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Evelyn Herbert Lightfoot Southwell was Ed. at Eton & Magdalen College, Oxford. He was a distinguished "Wet Bob" (or oarsman) at Eton. He became an assistant master at Shrewsbury in 1910. He was gazetted to the Rifle Brigade in 1915 & posted to the 13th (Service) Battalion at Perham Down, then to the 15th (Reserve) Battalion. Posted to the 9th (Service) Battalion in France on 30th Sept. 1915 & KiA 15/9/1916 near Delville Wood. Malcolm Graham White was born in 1887, Ed. Birkenhead School & King's College, Cambridge. He was briefly an assistant master at Marlborough before moving to Shrewsbury in 1910. He was gazetted to the 6th (SR) Battalion, Rifle Brigade in 1915 and posted to the 1st Battalion in France in January 1916. He was killed in action in the battalion's attack near Serre on 1st July 1916, has no known grave, & is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Includes Southwell's letters written from Shrewsbury & the Front to various friends & family members, also diary extracts from France. The letters/diary give some impression of his experiences & refer to various friends on active service & several brother officers in his bn. Also extracts from White's diary kept on the Western Front. Fairly brief daily entries give some account of his experiences supplemented by extracts from his letters. Orig. paper covd. boards with paper label to front & black printed linen backstrip, VG, nice clean copy inscribed "Julian E.C. Tower, as from his uncle, Hugh E.E. Howson. 1934." Note: Howson was a fellow master at Shrewsbury, was recipient of most of the letters in the book & organised its publication. See illustrations on our website.   £95

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