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Frederick Goodyear: Letters & Remains 1887-1917.
1st Ed., xv+193pp., portrait frontis. McBride Nast & Co.
1920
#64882
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Memorial volume including letters from the Front. UCS & Brasenose College Oxford (where he was regarded as "unambitious & dilatory"); became Assistant Manager of the Oxford Univ. Press at Bombay, but came home in 1914 to enlist in the ranks of the Artist's Rifles: served with them in France from May-Sept. 1915 when he transferred to the RE (Meteorological Dept.) then commissioned in the Essex Regt. in Feb. 1917, joined the 2nd Essex on 16th March 1917, wounded at Fampoux during Battle of Arras, 12th May 1917 & Died of Wounds on the 23rd May inst. Contents include letters from India & around 45pp. letters from France 1915-17. These are followed by a selection of poetry & prose compositions. Blue cloth, gilt to spine, some splitting to sp., generally VG with neat ink presentation inscription: "Miss Wood 'Rita' From F. Goodyear 1922." See illustration on our website.
£125
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BANKS (Lt.-Col. T.M., DSO, MC) & CHELL (Capt. R.A., DSO, MC)
With the 10th Essex in France.
2nd Ed., enlarged, 334pp., photos. & sketches. Gay & Hancock.
1924
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10th (S) Bn. Essex Regt., F&F 1915-18, Somme, Arras, 3rd Ypres &c. Orig. blue cloth with paper sp. label, fine copy. See illustration on our website.
£70
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BURROWS (J.W.)
Essex Units in the War 1914-1919: 1st Bn. The Essex Regt.
2nd (& best) Ed., xxxi+293pp., col. frontis., 49 photos., 25 maps (4 fldg.). VG in dw. Southend: Burrows.
1931
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Contains account of the regiment in Waterloo Campaign, Crimea & Boer War then WW1 Gallipoli & Western Front with 29th Div. This edition revised & considerably enlarged from that of 1923. Many excellent maps, photos. &c. Orig. red cloth, gilt, near fine in dw. See illustration on our website.
£95
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BURROWS (J.W.)
Essex Units in the War 1914-1919: 2nd Bn. The Essex Regiment.
2nd (revised) Ed., xxviii+232pp., col. frontis., c.80 photos., 9 maps/plans. VG in dw. Southend: Burrows.
1937
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Detailed history which includes earlier campaigns but is largely devoted to WW1 (F&F). This revised edition includes events on the North-West Frontier in 1930, &c. Best edition, orig. red cloth, fine in VG dw. See illustration on our website.
£95
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MONTGOMERY (Ina)
John Hugh Allen of the Gallant Company: A Memoir by His Sister.
1st Ed., vii+236pp., portrait frontis. VG in dw. Arnold.
1919
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John Hugh Allen, son of Colonel the Hon. Sir James Allen, K.C.B. (a New Zealand politician and sometime High Commissioner in London for NZ) & Lady Allen, was Ed. at Wanganui College & Jesus College, Cambridge (where he was President of the Union). He was studying for the Bar in London on the outbreak of war & joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps on 25th Aug. 1914; a few weeks later he was commissioned in the 13th (S) Bn. Worcestershire Regiment. Then attached to the 1st Bn. Essex Regiment at Gallipoli, he was killed in action there on 6th June 1915 & is buried in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery. Includes informative letters written in training, with some interesting accounts of the type of exercises etc. undertaken by his New Army battalion (stationed at Looe in Cornwall), & during the twelve days he spent at the front. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG in dw with presentation inscrip. "R.H. Studholme from his Father 7/11/21." See illustration on our website.
£65
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SNOOK (J.F., DCM, ex-Segt., Essex Regt.)
Gun Fodder.
1st Ed., 304pp. A&U.
1930
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The author worked in a East London factory; enlisted in 1914 in the Essex Regiment & served in F&F 1915-18 inc. Ypres, Loos, Somme, Cambrai &c., winning the DCM in 1917 as a L/Cpl. Lewis Gunner in charge of four guns. Eventually he returned to England to be commissioned & after the war "became known as an active political worker & a passionate anti-war propagandist & organisor..." (sleeve notes). Excellent portrayal of Army life, in & out of the line. Orig. orange cloth, titled in black to front & sp., VG. See illustration on our website.
£120
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