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ANDREWS ([Sir] William Linton) Haunting Years: The Commentaries of a War Territorial. 1st Ed., 288pp. Hutchinson. 1930  #64833
[HLMainPic] A fine personal memoir of service with 1/4th (later 4/5th) Black Watch 1914-18; Pte., NCO, Orderly Room Clerk & CQMS. Commissioned in 1918. Outstanding narrative of Festubert, Loos, Somme, Ypres &c. by noted provincial journalist & editor (of the Yorkshire Evening Post &c.) knighted in 1954. Orig. red cloth, titled in black, VG, signed on title page "William Linton Andrews." See illustrations on our website.   £90
BRECKENRIDGE (William) From Vimy to Mons: A Historical Narrative by William Breckenridge, ex 42nd Canadian Black Watch, Canadian Expeditionary Force. 254pp., dup. typescript, large format (275x220mm approx.) compiled by the author in 1919 but issued by him in this duplicated form in 1957.  #66441
[HLMainPic] A rare personal memoir of service with the 42nd Bn. CEF in France & Flanders, compiled by the author in 1919 but not circulated by him until 1957, & then presumably in a limited edition. He was a signaller & joined his battalion with a draft in 1916. Foreword states: "Of the many stories that have been written about wars but few of them have given the truth concerning the suffering & hardships that the front line fighting infantrymen are called upon to endure.. In this story I have endeavoured throughout to give the front line fighting infantryman's account... I have given the plain facts regarding the actualities of battle, naturally as I, in my own small way, saw them, & every statement or fact about any incident mentioned can be accepted as true... I have served on more than three dozen front line sectors... from Ypres to Amiens... I was fortunate to pass through many of the principal battles with the first wave of attacking troops & return unscarred... many dear friends fell... I saw my regiment decimated five times - at Vimy, Passchendaele, Amiens, Arras & Cambrai... Every trench that I have mentioned, & the dates given, are genuine... The official signalling messages & documents that I refer to are in my possession & are the original papers that were actually received in the trenches, & the names of the persons used are not fictitious..." The Contents include: Going to the Front; Life in the Trenches; Battle of Vimy Ridge; Dodging Trench Mortars in Avion; Fritz Uses Mustard Gas...; Almost Drowned in Flanders Mud; The Great Battle of Amiens; Smashing the Hindenburg Line, &c., & the whole piece is informative, well-written & gripping: a fine personal account. Issued by the author in card wraps., this copy bound in handsome black cloth with gilt title to sp., with author presentation inscription: "To Mr C.E. Dornbusch, The Author, William Breckenbridge." See illustrations on our website.   £350
CASSELLS (Scout Joe) With the Black Watch: The Story of the Marne. 1st Ed., vii+284pp. Melrose. nd (c.1917).  #63475
[HLMainPic] Author was a first-class reservist mobilized in 1914 with the 1st Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Active service from Mons to the Marne as a battalion runner & scout until wounded in Jan. 1915, followed by a short description of hospital life until discharged on 5th August 1915, "No longer physically fit for war service." Orig. black cloth, titled in yellow, minor wear, about VG. See illustration on our website.   £35
FERGUSSON (Bernard) The Black Watch & the King's Enemies. 2nd Imp.., 384pp., 23 maps. VG in chipped/torn dw. Collins. 1950  #64482
[HLMainPic] WW2 history: F&F 1939-40, North Africa, Italy, Greece, Burma (2nd Bn. with the Chindits), NW Europe 1944-45. Orig. green cloth, VG in chipped/torn dw, See illustration on our website.   £20
MACWILLIAM (H.D.) A Black Watch Episode of the Year 1731. Compiled from Contemporary Records, With Introduction & Notes. 1st Ed., ix+50pp., 3 illus. Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston. 1908  #66373
[HLMainPic] Concerning the murder of Ensign James Grant by a private soldier. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG with armorial bookplate of Bernard Fergusson, famous WW2 Chindit Brigade commander, &c. See illustration on our website.   £45
MANN (Arthur James ['Hamish']) A Subaltern's Musings. 1st Ed., 96pp., 195x129mm, portrait frontis. John Long, Ltd. 1918  #66505
[HLMainPic] War and other poems with a short Foreword containing some biographical details. Alexander James Mann was born 1896 and Ed. at George Watson's College, Edinburgh. Contributed to Scottish newspapers under the pseudonym 'Lucas Cappe.' Early in the war he assisted at the Craigleith Military Hospital, until he enlisted. He was commissioned in the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) in 1915, France 1916-17; wounded at Arras 9th April 1917 with 8th (Service) Battalion and Died of Wounds the following day. He was twenty-one and is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension. Orig. red cloth, gilt, somewhat worn & stained, generally VG & scarce. See illustratons on our website.   £65
McMICKING (Maj.-Gen. N.) Comp. Officers of the Black Watch 1725-1937. 1st Ed., 95pp., 4to. Perth: Hunter. 1937  #67220
[HLMainPic] Service details of regular officers. Orig. red full morocco, gilt, VG wiith ownership inscrip. & armorial bookplate of Bernard Edward Fergusson. Note: Bernard Fergusson, 1911-1980, was commissioned in the Black Watch in 1931. In October 1943 he was promoted to acting brigadier & given command of the 16th Infantry Brigade, which was converted into a Chindit formation for operations in the deep jungles of Burma miles behind Japanese lines. He commanded this brigade throughout the Chindit operations of 1944 before becoming Director of Combined Operations from 1945-46. He retired from military service in 1958. He was Governor-General of New Zealand, 1962-67, & raised to the peerage as Lord Ballantrae. Interesting copy previously owned by a distinguished Chindit brigade commander. See illustration on our website.   £45
TULLIBARDINE (Marchioness of) A Military History of Perthshire 1660-1902. 1st Ed., xxiii+634pp., 4to., 54 plates, 2 maps. Perth: R.A. & J. Hay. 1908  #65477
[HLMainPic] Comprehensive history of regular, militia, fencibles & volunteer forces, also the services of distingusihed officers such as Adml. Duncan, Lord Lynedoch, Sir John Campbell, Sir Hope Grant &c. Also some notes on Jacobite Perthshire & battles such as Killiecrankie 1689 & Sheriffmuir 1715. Deluxe edition, full red calf, gilt to front & sp., sp. little marked o/w excellent copy of this rather fine superior edition. See illustrations on our website.   £145
WATT (Lauchlan Maclean, CF) In France & Flanders with the Fighting Men. 1st Ed., xii+208pp. VG in dw. H&S. 1917  #65533
[HLMainPic] Several months as Padre at "one of the saddest hospitals in France, up at the Advanced Base" followed by attachments to the Gordon Highlanders on the Somme & Ancre & with the Black Watch in the Ypres Salient, &c. Near fine in in sl chipped/creased dw & very scarce thus. See illustrations on our website.   £165

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