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CRAWFORD (Driver Robert John, RASC)
I Was An Eighth Army Soldier.
As narrated to Major John Dalgleish, RASC. 4th Imp., 86pp., 8 photos., fldg. map. Gollancz.
1944
#66724
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Personal experiences with 1st Armd. Div., six months in the Western Desert until wounded in June 1942. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£15
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DOPSON (F.W.)
The 48th Divisional Signal Company in the Great War.
1st Ed., 143pp., portrait frontis., 9 drawings by the author, 8 maps, 2 diagrams. Privately printed.
1938
#65945
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Western Front 1915-17 inc. Somme, Hindenburg Line & 3rd Ypres; then in Italy 1917-18 (Montello, Asiago &c.). Appealing sketches by the author (an NCO in the unit). Orig. wheat cloth, gilt to sp., dec. to front, VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.
£145
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HODY (Maj. E.H., RASC)
With the "Mad 17th" to Italy.
1st Ed., 160pp., fldg. col. frontis., 14 b/w plates, 2 maps. A&U.
1920
#61684
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17th Divisional Supply Column in France & Italy, by the CO. Orig. blue cloth, trace of old label to front paste-down o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£35
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ITS COMMANDER [Pseud. of CLIFTON-SHELTON (A.)]
On the Road from Mons with an Army Service Corps Train.
2nd Ed., xii+164pp., 2 diagrams of supply arrangements, facsimile telegram, fldg. map. Hurst & Blackett.
1917
#59308
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Personal account by CO of the Supply Train of 19th Infantry Brigade, describing the nature of their work & experiences at Mons & Le Cateau, the Retreat & Battle of the Aisne. Orig. maroon cloth, gilt, VG indeed: a nice example. This copy with two additional, modern, col. photos. of a cpl. & a private or the Royal Wagon Train, 1808 & 1811 respectively. See illustration on our website..
£75
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LEVY (Stanley J.)
Memories of the 71st & 83rd Companies, R.A.S.C., M.T., 1914-1918.
1st Ed., 176pp., frontis., 20 photos., 25 sketches. Printed for Private Circulation in an Edition of 200 copies by The Abbey Press, Westminster.
1931
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Finely produced record of these Mechanical Transport units of the ASC on the Western Front, with much interesting & intimate detail on their work & experiences. Operations include 1st, 2nd & 3rd Ypres; Neuve Chapelle; Loos; Battles of the Somme, &c. Orig. half blue morocco, cloth boards, gilt to front & spine, near fine. This example, No. 155 of just 200 produced, presented to former comrade H. Leppard. A particularly rare & informative record. See illustration on our website.
£225
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LIPSCOMBE (Mechanist Sergt-Major G., RASC)
The Peregrinations of the 34th Divisional (M.T.) Coy. (179 Coy. R.A.S.C.) During The Great War of 1914-1919.
1st Ed., [xi]+76pp., col. plate of div. & coy. signs., portrait frontis., 17 plates. Aldershot: G&P.
1920
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Rare & very nicely presented history. Includes a complete history, 1916-18, but mainly the battles of 1918 after the coy. was merged with the 180 MT Coy. from 18th Division in March 1918. Much on the German spring offensive &c. Nominal roll of officers & men. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£95
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SELIGMAN (V.J.)
Macedonian Musings.
1st Ed., 188pp. VG in chipped dw. Allen & Unwin.
1918
#59311
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Impressions of an Army Service Corps officer with 60th Div. Seligman was a young officer who left Charterhouse early in the war. Falls writes: "His book consists of a series of sketches, most of them slight in nature, of conditions during the campaign in Macedonia. One or two of the papers are of a more serious kind, & all give a good notion of the atmosphere of this curious campaign of many nationalities." Orig. wheat cloth, titled in brown, near fine in rather worn but neatly renovated & scarce dw. See illustration on our website.
£145
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SELIGMAN (V.J.)
The Salonika Side-Show.
1st Ed., 256pp., 10 photos., 2 fldg. maps, one small sketch map in text. Allen & Unwin.
1919
#64210
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Personal impressions of an Army Service Corps officer with 60th Div. during 1917-18. Seligman was a young officer who left Charterhouse early in the war. Falls writes: "His book consists of a series of sketches, most of them slight in nature, of conditions during the campaign in Macedonia. One or two of the papers are of a more serious kind, & all give a good notion of the atmosphere of this curious campaign of many nationalities." One notable light-hearted but useful descriptive piece is "Maxims of a Supply Officer" in which the author explains the problems of balancing units' expectations with available supplies, et al. Orig. wheat cloth, titled in brown, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£65
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STEWART (Maj. H.A., DSO, ASC)
From Mons to Loos: Being the Diary of a Supply Officer.
1st Ed., xii+306pp., 22 plates. Blackwood.
1916
#50236
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9th Bde., 3rd Div., 1914-15, inc. Mons, the Aisne, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Loos &c. Falls notes: "The passage to France of the 3rd Divisional Train, the concentration, Mons, the Retreat, the Aisne, the transfer to Flanders & conditions there are described from the point of view of a supply officer. The book contains some interesting photographs." Orig. green cloth with attractive pictorial front board, sp. sl. dull o/w VG throughout & very scarce original edition. See illustration on our website.
£75
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TEMPLE CLARKE (Capt. A.O.)
Transport & Sport in the Great War Period.
2nd Ed., 212pp., portrait frontis., 23 plates. Printed for the author by Garden City Press.
1938
#63004
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Personal record of Horse Transport on the Western Front with much interesting detail on organisation & work of Divisional Train, Horse Transport Depot &c. (author served with the ASC in 66th East Lancs. Division). Orig. blue cloth, VG, very nice clean copy. See illustration on our website.
£85
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