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1/6th Battn. London Regiment: Battalion Christmas Card 1917. Attractive card with regimental crest to front & insert (held in with red & green cord tie) depicting the battalion's battles & engagements from March 1915-August 1917, with appealing sketches. VG with inscrip. from Fred Hobbs to Mother & loosely inserted photo. of two soldiers of the battalion, one presumably Hobbs. See illustrations on our website.  #61819
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A Soldier of England: Memorials of Leslie Yorath Sanders: Born July 5th, 1893, Killed in Action March 10th, 1917. 1st Ed., [vii]+145pp., portrait frontis. Dumfries: J. Maxwell & Son, Printers. 1920  #66011
[HLMainPic] Sanders was at Trinity College Cambridge in & enlisted in Queen Victoria's Rifle in 1914, went to France in Feb. 1915 & wounded at Hill 60 in April - an event of which he leaves an interesting account. He was commissioned in the RGA but when he returmed to France in Nov. 1916 he was attached to 3rd Field Survey Coy., RE, & killed when a shell burst in the HQ office in which he was working. Contains interesting & sometimes intensely poignant letters from the front in 1915 & 1916-17, various letters of condolence &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £145
A Soldier of England: Memorials of Leslie Yorath Sanders: Born July 5th, 1893, Killed in Action March 10th, 1917. 1st Ed., [vii]+145pp., 209x170mm, portrait frontis. Dumfries: J. Maxwell & Son, Printers and Publishers. 1920  #69336
[HLMainPic] Leslie Yorath Sanders, Son of Sir Charles Sanders K.B.E. (of the Board of Trade and later Director of Shipbuilding Work in the Ministry of Shipping) and Lady Agnes Sanders (who were Wesleyans), grew up in the East End of London, that his father "might devote his evenings and Sundays to social work amongst the poor." Sanders was educated at St Olave's Grammar School, Southwark, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He enlisted in Queen Victoria's Rifles (the 9th London Regiment, Territorial Force) in 1914, went to France in February 1915 and was wounded at Hill 60 in April (an event of which he leaves an interesting account). He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery, but when he returned to France in November 1916 he was attached to 3rd Field Survey Coy., Royal Engineers, and killed when a shell burst in the H.Q. office in which he was working on 10th March 1917. He was twenty-three and his grave lies in Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty. Contains interesting and sometimes intensely poignant letters from the Front in 1915 and 1916-17, also various letters of condolence etc. In February 1917 he prophetically wrote: "The campaign that is opening now, it seems to me, will be the bloodiest in history… as the mud of winter once more renders the arena too slippery for the combatants to remain at grips… both sides will be exhausted, but the Bosche far more, and with far less material for recruitment. In the years that follow, I imagine, there can never be again the same intensity of effort there will be this summer; but though the Allies grow absolutely weaker, yet relatively they will grow stronger and stronger until at last, if only their will to win remains, they can overwhelm the Bosche in hopeless ruin… 'The War that will end War?' Perhaps. And maybe not." Green cloth, gilt to front and spine, rubbed & worn, sound, near VG.   £90
An Appreciation and Some of the Letters of the Late 2nd Lieut. T.B. Stowell, M.C., who Fell in Action in France, November 19th, 1917. Comp;iled by H.C.K. 1st Ed., 61pp., 207x140mm, portrait frontis. Liverpool: Lee & Nightingale, Printers. nd [1918].  #69296
[HLMainPic] Thomas Brown Stowell was educated at Merchant Taylor's School in Liverpool and Oriel College, Oxford. He found employment with H.M. Office of Works but was released in 1914 when he wished to enlist. He joined the St. Pancras Rifles, 19th London Regiment (Territorial Force), proceeding with a draft to France in 1915; promoted to Sergeant before getting a commission in the South Lancashire Regiment in 1916. He joined the 8th (Service) Battalion South Lancs. in France in January 1917 and was shot in the head by a sniper in front line trenches on 19th November 1917; he was carried to a Dressing Station but died of wounds the same evening and is buried in Béthune Town Cemetery. He was twenty-seven years old. Includes letters from Oxford, in training in 1914, France in 1915 (including a lengthy and graphic account of his experiences during the Battle of Loos); at Cadet School in Scotland in 1916 then from France again in 1917. Also two short, moving prose pieces with the title "Killed in Action." Orig. green cloth with title in gilt to spine, front board decorated with wreath motif and the first line of Horace's 'Dulce et decorum est...' VG.   £245
Diary of Hugh McNeill Fraser (First Battalion London Scottish) Sep. 1914-Jany. 1915. 1st Ed., 39pp., 184x118mm, real photo. portrait frontis. No imprint [Privately printed, 1915].  #69320
[HLMainPic] No. 3132 Private Hugh McNeill Fraser served in "F" Coy., 1st Battalion 14th London Regiment (London Scottish), mobilized in 1914 & survived the famous charge at Messines, but was mortally wounded on 25th January 1915 when his Battalion was in the line in the Cuinchy sector & died of wounds on 4th February. He was 21 & is buried in Le Touquet-Paris Plage Communal Cemetery. Contains his active service diary, a memoir & letters of condolence. Orig. full blue morocco, gilt title to front, VG & rare.   £225
History of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles. 1st Ed., xvi+489pp., col. frontis., 26 photos., 14 maps. Printed for the Regt. 1921  #53057
Detailed history: 1st Bn. Western Front 1915-18; 2nd Bn. F&F briefly then Palestine & back to France in 1918. Nominal roll, awards &c. VG ex-IWM lib.   £25
History of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles. 1st Ed., xvi+489pp., col. frontis., 26 photos., 14 maps. Printed for the Regt. 1921  #68346
[HLMainPic] 15th London Regiment. Detailed history: 1st Bn. Western Front 1915-18; 2nd Bn. F&F briefly then Palestine & back to France in 1918. Nominal roll, awards &c. Orig. grey cloth, titled in blue, VG. See illustration on our website.   £35
Illustrated Programme of The Royal Jubilee Procession, June 22nd [1897]. Authorised by H.R.H. The Price of Wales, K.G., Published in Aid of the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund for London. Orig. dec. wraps., 60pp., drawings throughout. Printed for The Prince of Wales Hospital Fund by George Robert Parker & Augustus Fildes Thomas.  #65123
[HLMainPic] Full listing of those dignitaries, regiments, Foreign Missions &c. participating in the parade through London to mark Queen Victoria's Jubilee inc. the names of The Deputation of Officers of The Imperial Service Troops (Indian officers), the Escort from The Regular Indian Army (around 50 Indian officers of the Indian cavalry) & more, followed by fine drawings of the various contingents & carriages. VG. See illustrations on our website.   £60
Letters from France written home by Captain Llewelyn Jones, 1/3rd Batt. London Regiment and Tributes from Friends. 1st Ed., xxiii+181pp., 222x148mm, portrait frontis., 21 other photos. & a facsimile letter written before going into action at Arras in April 1917. Printed for Private Circulation. nd [c.1921].  #66018
[HLMainPic] Memoir and letters of John Llewelyn Thomas Jones compiled by his father. "Llew" was born in 1895 and grew up at Llangollen, where he went to the Llangollen County School. He entered his father's firm in London (his father was Chairman of the Paddington and Bayswater Chamber of Commerce) then joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in October 1915, being gazetted to the 3rd London Regiment in August 1916. Posted to France in October 1916, he was listed as missing in action on 16th August 1917, commanding "D" Company in an attack at Ypres. He was twenty-two and is buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery. Lengthy letters from the Front, occupying 86pp., are followed by numerous letters of condolence etc. Orig. patterned cloth covered boards with blind wheat cloth spine, this copy complete with plain paper dw & loosely inserted presentation letter from the subject's father, dated 1938. See illustrations on our website.   £275
Letters of Norman Crawford MacLehose Lieut. 8th City of London Bn. (Post Office Rifles) August 1914-May 1915. 1st Ed., [ii]+89pp., 198x135mm, portrait frontis. Glasgow: Printed at the University Press by Robert MacLehose and Co. Ltd. 1916.  #69273
[HLMainPic] Norman Crawford MacLehose was the second son of Norman Macmillan MacLehose, a Harley Street opthalmic surgeon, and of Olive, his wife. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Officers' Training Corps. He took a keen interest in military history. While reading for the Bar he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. and received a commission in the Post Office Rifles in 1913. He went to France with his Battalion in March 1915 and participated in the Battle of Festubert in May. On 26th May, towards the end of several days' operations he was shot by a sniper while helping to consolidate a position in a captured German trench. He was twenty-six years old and is buried in Post Office Rifles Cemetery, Festubert (described by a contemporary as "one of the little military cemeteries at Le Marais, just west of Festubert, on the road from Béthune.") Contains letters written to several family members from training camps in England 1914-15 then from France containing interesting descriptions of billets, the front line area and trench life in the low lying region near Béthune. (A note explains that "As these letters are printed only for near and intimate friends, it has been thought best to leave them as they stand, not omitting details which otherwise might seem too trivial."). Pale blue paper covered boards and cloth backstrip, gilt to spine and black to front, VG with loosely inserted letter from his mother, Olive, to a family friend explaining the circumstances of publication &c.   £225

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