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[FITZMAURICE (Gerald)]
Biographical Sketch of Major General John Fitzmaurice K.H.
Written for private circulation. 1908. The Centenary of the Formation of the 95th Rifle Corps now The Rifle Brigade. 1st Ed., 102pp., portrait frontis., fldg. map. Anghiari (Italy), Tiber Printing Press.
1908
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John George Fitzmaurice served with the 3rd Bn. 95th Rifles in the Peninsular, was present at numerous engagements & had his leg broken at Badajoz. Was also at Waterloo with the 1st Bn. where he was again wounded. Includes some 45pp. relating to his services in the Peninsular, including transcriptions of various letters, & a short account of his participation at Waterloo. Not particularly revealing but a very rare memoir. Just one copy on Library Hub (formerly COPAC), at Oxford University, is recorded by Victor Sutcliffe (Sandler Collection) but not Brett-James (Life in Wellington's Army bibliography). Orig. black & green cloth, sp. panel, corners & eps sympathetically renewed, VG thus, presumably printed in a very small edition & this copy with compiler's inscription: "To Nina Clifford great great granddaughter of John of Duagh is presented by the author, Gerald Fitzmaurice great grandson of John of Duagh this memoir of John Fitzmaurice grandson of John of Duagh. March 1914." With bound-in later ink notes re family history & recording the death of Nina Clifford & subsequent presentation of this copy to Col. L. Fitzmaurice, & another, later, note on family history. See illustrations on our website.
£265
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