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War Diary and Letters of Captain A. Ellice. 5th Battalion Cameron Highlanders.
1st Ed., 88pp., 198x140mm, portrait frontis. Privately Printed for His Father by Robert Carruthers & Sons, Courier Office, Inverness.
1920
#69375
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Alexander Ellice was born in 1894, son of Major Edward E. Ellice D.S.O. and Margaret Ellice, educated at Cargilfield School, Edinburgh, and Rugby. He was working in London when war broke out and obtained a commission (despite poor eyesight) in the newly raised 5th Camerons. Served in France from May 1915, as a Platoon Commander then commanding a Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, until wounded on 6th September 1915. He returned to France in February 1916 and remained there until badly wounded by shrapnel during a relief at Eaucourt l'Abbaye on 13th October the same year. He died in the Casualty Clearing Station at Dernancourt (where he is buried in the Communal Cemetery Extension) three days later. He was twenty-one. Contains descriptive letters written during his first period of active service, a fairly informative diary of his second stint, plus extracts from several letters of condolence. Blue cloth, gilt to front, ltlle stained o/w VG & scarce.
£220
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