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Coldstream Guards   9 Books
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The Letters of Major Henry Bentinck, Coldstream Guards. 1st Ed., vi+138pp., portrait frontis., 3 plates. VG in sl. chipped dw. Robert Scott. 1919  #65201
[HLMainPic] Henry Duncan Bentinck was ed. at Harrow & Trinity College, Cambridge. Commissioned Coldstream Guards in 1903, served in Egypt/Sudan 1903-1911 & 1913-1915 (with XII Sudanese). He joined the 2nd Coldstream in France in April 1915 & Died of Wounds on 2/10/1916, of wounds received on the Somme. Contains a memoir & his letters including those from France April 1915-Sept. 1916. Of interest for life in trenches, Guards characters, &c. Orig. red cloth, VG in sl. chipped dw & scarce, especially in dw. See illustrations on our website.   £175
"An O.E." [Pseud. of FILDES (Lt. G.P.A., Coldstream Guards)] Iron Times with the Guards. By an "O.E." 1st Ed., xv+358pp. Murray. 1918  #67097
[HLMainPic] Anonymous personal account. The 'Old Etonian' was commissioned in a territorial regiment in 1914, shortly afterwards transferred to the Coldstream & served with 2nd Bn. in France from April 1915: fought in battle of Festubert, later at Ypres & on the Somme. Orig. purple cloth, sp. a little sunned o/w VG & scarce with presentation inscrip. "Eric Dawson-Walker in memory of the author, Geoffrey Fildes, 1888-1963, from his daughter, Pamela Myers. Windsor, April 1965.". See illustration on our website.   £50
FEILDING (Lt.-Col. Rowland C., DSO) War Letters to a Wife, France & Flanders 1915-1919. 1st Ed., xv+382pp., 16 photos., ep map. Medici. 1929  #64209
[HLMainPic] Service with 3rd Coldstream F&F 1915-16 as a company commander, then commanded 6th (S) Bn. Connaught Rangers (16th Irish Div.) on the Somme & later 1/15th Londons (47th Div.) until the end of the war. Falls, awarding a rare two-star rating, states: "In simple terms, but with remarkable power, with hardly a complaint - except on a few occasions when he thought his officers or men unfairly used - he tells a wonderful story. Very few men can have such a story to tell, for very few had the fortune like him to survive battle after battle, & come out not only unwounded but unscathed in nerve & spirit." Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG, nice copy with pencil ownership inscrip. to ffep "Dorothy Schofield" & presentation inscrip. to half title: "To dear Harry With much love from Dorothy 29-1-'30" beneath which an unknown hand has added "H. Schofield VC at Colenso." See illustration on our website.   £45
MACKINNON (Col. D.) Origin & Services of the Coldstream Guards. 1st Ed., 2 Vols., xxviii+448 & xx+552pp., 17 plates of medals, plan & view of Hougomont. Bentley. 1833  #58442
[HLMainPic] Vol. I on the early history & campaigns; Vol. II largely Peninsula & Waterloo campaigns, with officers' rolls & various other appendices. Old half blue calf, neatly rebacked with orig. spine panels laid down, somewhat rubbed & worn but sound copy with ownership inscrip. of "C.M. King, Coldstream Guards, 1899." See illustration on our website.   £145
NOAKES (F.E.) The Distant Drum: The Personal History of a Guardsman in the Great War. 1st Ed., xii+241pp. VG in dw. Tunbridge Wells: Printed by Courier Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. nd (c.1950).  #63778
[HLMainPic] Privately printed memoirs of enlistment in June 1917, posting to the Household Battalion ("an independent & somewhat anomalous body of dismounted cavalry") at Windsor then to the Household Battalion Service Bn. in France in October; the latter formed part of the 4th Div. & spent the next three months in & out of the line on the Arras front. In Feb. 1918 the H.B. was disbanded (with the reorganisation of infantry brigades that took place at that time) & Noakes was posted to 3rd Bn. Coldstream Guards, with which he remained throughout the year inc. the German attacks in March & the Allied Final Advance, then to the Army of Occupation in Cologne until demobbed in Oct. 1919. Provides a good account of life in trenches & in the villages behind the lines, & is the only account we are aware of of service in the Household Bn. Orig. red cloth, near fine in VG dec. dw (this just sl. chipped) & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £160
ROSS OF BLADENSBURG (Lt.-Col. Sir John) The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918. 1st Ed., 2 text vols. + mapcase: xvii+519 & [vi]+546pp., portrait, 27 fldg. maps in separate volume. VG in dws. Oxford: OUP. 1921  #67027
[HLMainPic] Western Front throughout the war. Frequent orders of battle with officers' rolls, casualty roll, awards, officers' services. Handsome work, orig. blue cloth, silver & gilt, all three volumes fine in VG dws. A lovely set. See illustration on our website.   £145
ROSS-OF-BLADENSBURG (Lt.-Col., CB) The Coldstream Guards in the Crimea. 1st Ed., xii+312pp., 6 fldg. maps. A.D. Innes & Co. 1897  #62177
[HLMainPic] The 1st Bn. at the Battle of Inkermann, Siege of Sebastopol &c., with various statistical returns of drafts, casualties &c., based on the regimental history volume covering 1815-1885. Orig. red cloth, gilt, minor wear, about VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £75
WHIDBORNE (M.) Ed. George Ferris Whidborne MC: His Life & Surroundings 1890-1915. 1st Ed., 422pp., portrait frontis., 6 plates. Glasow: Printed by Maclehose, For Private Circulation. 1917  #65205
[HLMainPic] Whidborne was eldest son of George Ferris Whidborne & Margaret Whidborne, of Hammerwood House, East Grinstead, Sussex. Ed. at Harrow & commissioned in the Coldstream Guards, Special Reserve, in August 1914. To 3rd Bn. in France in October 1914 and won the MC in April 1915 rescuing men from a mineshaft (a brother officer provided his mother with some details: "...he was very prominent in rescuing the miners from the mine at Givenchy, going down & along the shaft at the bottom, & helping to carry the men who were gassed." He was wounded on 21st June 1915 & returned to England for treatment but, shortly after returning to the Front he was again wounded while out with a wiring party during the night of 23/24 October: "The Germans commenced bombing & one burst close to your son. He was wounded in several places in the right leg, & a small wound in the back. I reached him almost as soon as he was brought back into our trench. I dressed him & gave him some morphia." So wrote the Bn. M.O., but he died of wounds that afternoon. aged twenty-five. His grave is in Bethune Town Cemetery. Detailed memoirs with much on his service in France. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, rather rubbed & worn, but very scarce. See illustration on our website.   £165
WHIDBORNE (M.) Ed. George Ferris Whidborne MC: His Life & Surroundings 1890-1915. 1st Ed., 422pp., portrait frontis., 6 plates. Glasow: Printed by Maclehose, For Private Circulation. 1917  #66640
[HLMainPic] Whidborne was eldest son of George Ferris Whidborne & Margaret Whidborne, of Hammerwood House, East Grinstead, Sussex. Ed. at Harrow & commissioned in the Coldstream Guards, Special Reserve, in August 1914. To 3rd Bn. in France in October 1914 and won the MC in April 1915 rescuing men from a mineshaft (a brother officer provided his mother with some details: "...he was very prominent in rescuing the miners from the mine at Givenchy, going down & along the shaft at the bottom, & helping to carry the men who were gassed." He was wounded on 21st June 1915 & returned to England for treatment but, shortly after returning to the Front he was again wounded while out with a wiring party during the night of 23/24 October: "The Germans commenced bombing & one burst close to your son. He was wounded in several places in the right leg, & a small wound in the back. I reached him almost as soon as he was brought back into our trench. I dressed him & gave him some morphia." So wrote the Bn. M.O., but he died of wounds that afternoon. aged twenty-five. His grave is in Bethune Town Cemetery. Detailed memoirs with much on his service in France. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, near fine & scarce thus. See illustration on our website.   £220

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