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Essays, Poems, Letters by Bernard Pitt, M.A. (Assistant Master Cooper's Company's School), Lieut., Border Regiment, Attached Trench Mortar Battery, Killed in Action, April 30th, 1916.
1st Ed., ix+202pp., 217x144mm, portrait frontis. Francis Edwards.
1917
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Bernard Pitt was born in 1881 and was an assistant master at the Cooper's Company's School. He was Killed in Action by the explosion of a German mine between Souchez and Givenchy at 7 p.m. on 30th April 1916. His body was never found and he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was thirty-four. Includes 50pp. interesting and atmospheric letters from France & Flanders between December 1915 and April 1916, serving with 47th Trench Mortar Battery, notable for rare account of trench mortar work in the front line (Pitt describes the phenomenon, known well to infantrymen, of mortar men turning up in their trench, loosing off a few rounds then clearing out before the inevitable retaliation). The letters are followed by poems (including one war poem) and various prose pieces on the nature of poetry, comedy, and so forth. Orig. green cloth, gilt to front, somewhat rubbed, generally VG. See illustration on our website.
£95
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The War Letters of Leonard & Walter Ewbank 1915-1917.
1st Ed., 80pp., 190x128mm. Printed by Butler & Tanner, For Private Circulation. nd [c.1920].
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Sons of the Rev. John and Julia Helen Ewbank, of Cumberland. 2nd Lieutenant Leonard Ewbank was killed in action with 5th Battalion Border Regiment at Sanctuary Wood on 23rd February 1916, aged twenty-three. He is buried in Railway Dugouts (Transport Farm) Cemetery. Captain John Walter Ewbank was commissioned in the Border Regiment from Sandhurst in 1914, wounded at Neuve Chapelle with the 2nd Battalion, then served with the 1st Battalion at Gallipoli and later in France, where he won the Military Cross in 1916, a Bar to it in 1917 and the Croix de Guerre. He was killed in action at Cambrai on 30th November 1917 whilst serving on Brigade Staff, aged twenty-one, and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial. Contains interesting letters from both brothers. Orig. pale blue cloth, blocked black to front board. VG & rare with loosely inserted slip "With kindest regards from R.B. Ewbank." See illustration on our website.
£175
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MAY (Ralph)
Glory is no Compensation: The Border Regiment at Gallipoli, 1915.
1st Ed., 320pp., num. photos., sketch maps. VG in dw. Carlisle: Border Regt. Museum.
2003
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1st & 6th (T) Bns. at Gallipoli with service rolls of all ranks noting casualties &c., awards. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£20
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WYLLY (Col. H.C., CB)
The Border Regiment in the Great War.
1st Ed., ix+272pp., 4to, 8 plates, 7 fldg. maps (inc. 3 in end-pocket). Aldershot: Printed & Published for the Regimental Committee by Gale & Polden.
1924
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Excellent history, mainly Western Front but also including 1st Bn. (29th Div.) & 6th Bn. (11th Div.) in Gallipoli, 9th in Salonika, post-war Afghanistan 1919 & Waziristan 1922-24. Orig. green cloth, bevelled boards, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£125
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