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WINANT (Cornelius)
A Soldier's Manuscript.
1st Ed., vii+143pp., portrait frontis. Boston, Mass., Privately Printed at The Merrymount Press.
1929
#68179
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Cornelius Winant, member of a prominent East Coast family, joined the American Ambulance Field Service in France in 1916, later in the year went to Salonika, was at Monastir &c., then in Jan. 1918 he joined the French Foreign Legion. Serving with the 236th Field Artillery on the Western Front, he was captured, taken PoW & escaped to Rotterdam. Now joining up with US forces he was assigned to the 18th Artillery but by the time he joined this formation the armistice had been signed. These war memoirs, which include an account of his escape adventures, were published by his family after his unfortunate death in 1928. He had staggered into the exclusive Princetown Club, injured & in distress, was put to bed by other club members but died during the night. According to newspaper reports a hemorrage, left unchecked for too long, combined with acute alcoholism, was fatal. Orig. blue paper covd. boards with wheat cloth backstrip & corners, gilt lettering label to sp., little rubbed/worn about VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£65
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