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A Scholar's Letters from the Front: Written by Stephen H. Hewett, 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. With an Intro. by F.F. Urquhart, Fellow of Balliol College. 1st Ed., xviii+114pp., portrait frontis. Longmans, Green & Co. 1918  #65733
[HLMainPic] Stephen Henry Philip Hewett was born in India in 1893 (his father was in the Indian Telegraph Service), educated at Downside & Balliol College, Oxford: completing his third year in 1914 he went to Savoy for the summer where he witnessed the French mobilization and made his way home, commissioned in 11th (S) Bn. Warwickshire Regiment, but kept back when the Battalion went overseas, he eventually joined the 14th Battalion – the First Birmingham City Battalion – at the Front in February 1916 & was KiA leading his platoon in an attack between High Wood and Delville Wood on 22nd July 1916. He was twenty-three & is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. The book consists of lengthy 'diary letters' to his mother together with those to his sisters and various friends, containing, inter alia, affectionate descriptions of characters such as one Latham, the company officers' cook, and his horror at the first casualty he encountered: "his young freckled face was horribly smashed in by a bullet… I was severely shaken; but one has to get callous both in mind and body, and one does: and an hour's sleep revived me." Orig. paper covd. boards & cloth backstrip with paper label, eps rather browned, somewhat rubbed/worn, generally VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
A Scholar's Letters from the Front: Written by Stephen H. Hewett, 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. With an Intro. by F.F. Urquhart, Fellow of Balliol College. 1st Ed., xviii+114pp., portrait frontis. Longmans, Green & Co. 1918  #67103
[HLMainPic] Stephen Henry Philip Hewett was born in India in 1893 (his father was in the Indian Telegraph Service), educated at Downside & Balliol College, Oxford: completing his third year in 1914 he went to Savoy for the summer where he witnessed the French mobilization and made his way home, commissioned in 11th (S) Bn. Warwickshire Regiment, but kept back when the Battalion went overseas, he eventually joined the 14th Battalion – the First Birmingham City Battalion – at the Front in February 1916 & was KiA leading his platoon in an attack between High Wood and Delville Wood on 22nd July 1916. He was twenty-three & is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. The book consists of lengthy 'diary letters' to his mother together with those to his sisters and various friends, containing, inter alia, affectionate descriptions of characters such as one Latham, the company officers' cook, and his horror at the first casualty he encountered: "his young freckled face was horribly smashed in by a bullet… I was severely shaken; but one has to get callous both in mind and body, and one does: and an hour's sleep revived me." Orig. paper covd. boards & cloth backstrip with paper label, eps rather browned, somewhat rubbed/worn, generally VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
The Story of "A" Sector Warwickshire Home Guard, 2nd & 7th Battalions: A History of the formation, development & eventual dissolution of two typical battalions of Britain's Home Guard Army, 1940-44. 1st Ed., vii+140pp., photos. & sketches, ep maps. Rugby: George Over. 1946  #64080
[HLMainPic] Much interesting detail inc. Rugby Town Coy., Home Guard Railwaymen, Willans Platoons, Medical unit, &c. Much interesting detail on exercises, weapons, &c., drawings of flashes/badges, several lists of officers. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £65
BILL (Major C.A.) The 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (2nd Birmingham Battalion) in the Great War. 1st Ed., [xii]+151pp., portrait frontis., 20 photos., 5 maps. Birmingham: Cornish. 1932  #61291
[HLMainPic] To France at end of 1915 & integrated into 5th Div., served on the Arras front, then on the Somme 1916, Festubert sector 1916-17, Arras & 3rd Ypres, Italy 1917-18. Appealing & scarce history with some interesting photos. of trenches & many interesting anecdotes. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £120
CARRINGTON (Charles) Soldier from the Wars Returning. 2nd Imp., 287pp., frontis., 3 maps. VG in dw. Hutchinson. 1965  #63174
[HLMainPic] Classic war memoirs, York & Lancs. then 5th Warwicks, Western Front inc. Somme & Passchendaele (MC). The author also wrote 'A Subalterns War' (1929) under the name Charles Edmonds. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £25
HALDANE (Lt.-Gen. Sir Aylmer, KCB, DSO) A Brigade of the Old Army 1914. 1st Ed., vii+149pp., 2 maps (one fldg.). Edward Arnold. 1920  #65954
[HLMainPic] Brigade commander's history of 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Div. (1st Warwicks; 2nd Seaforths; 1st RIF & 2nd Dublins) from August-November 1914 inc. Le Cateau, the Retreat, the Aisne & the Race for the Sea. "These early records are invaluable, & contain an atmosphere that no subsequent historical research can replace" - Falls. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £145
HANKEY (Donald) The Beloved Captain: Selected Chapters from "A Student in Arms." 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 64pp. Melrose. nd [1917].  #60436
[HLMainPic] Two volumes of "A Student in Arms" were published in 1915 & 1916; in them Hankey described life in the New Army. The work here offered is an extract of some of the more well-known chapters, including that mentioned in the title, a moving tribute to Captain Ronald Montagu Hardy, 7th Rifle Brigade, KiA 23rd July 1915 & commemorated on the Menin Gate. Donald William Alers Hankey was a heroic icon of the New Army ideal. Ed. at Rugby, he had been commissioned in the Royal Artillery 1903-06 but, following the death of his father, resigned to study at Oxford, travel & work with the Bermondsey Mission &c. He enlisted in the 7th (S) Bn. Rifle Brigade 1914 & as a corporal was wounded at Hooge on 30th July 1915, later commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment & KiA with the 1st Bn. on 12th October 1916. He has no known grave & is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.   £25
MILLER (Edward, MA) Ed. & Intro. The Letters of Donald Hankey, "A Student in Arms." 1st Ed., 444pp., portrait frontis., 7 plates. VG in sl. chipped dw. Melrose. 1919  #60435
[HLMainPic] Donald William Alers Hankey was a heroic icon of the New Army ideal. Ed. at Rugby, he had been commissioned in the Royal Artillery 1903-06 but, following the death of his father, resigned to study at Oxford, travel & work with the Bermondsey Mission &c. He enlisted in the 7th (S) Bn. Rifle Brigade 1914 & as a corporal was wounded at Hooge on 30th July 1915, later commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment & KiA with the 1st Bn. on 12th October 1916. He has no known grave & is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Orig. black cloth, gilt, VG in sl. chipped & rare dw. See illustration on our website.   £145

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