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Rifle Brigade   37 Books
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Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth, Captain 7th Rifle Brigade, Staff-Captain 218th Infantry Brigade, 1890-1917. 1st Ed., 38pp., real photo. portrait frontis., plate, sketch map. Printed for Private Circulation at the Chiswick Press. 1918  #66005
[HLMainPic] Second son of Lord Shuttleworth. Eton & Balliol & called to the Bar; Rifle Brigade 1914 & went to France with 7th Bn. In action in the fire attack at Hooge (of which he leaves an excellent lengthy account with a sketch) & in 1916 was invalided to the UK where he was killed in a motor cycle accident in 1917 on the eve of returning to the front. He married in 1914 & left two infant children. Includes a short biographical memoir, a valuable account of the liquid fire attack at Hooge when the 7th RB was rushed up in support of the 8th, who had borne the brunt of the attack. Orig. green cloth, titled in white to sp., little split o/w VG & rare, inscribed by the subject's wife (who compiled this memorial), "For General Martin from Sibell Kay-Shuttleworth on the 1st Anniversary July 10th 1918. In memory of 'Ted'" See illustration on our website.   £245
Letters written in the Trenches near Ypres between May & September, 1915, by H.M. Butterworth, 9th Rifle Brigade, who fell in action on September 25th, 1915. 1st Ed., 219x142mm, 84pp., portrait frontis. Wellington, NZ: Whitcombe & Tombs. 1916  #66577
[HLMainPic] Hugh Montagu Butterworth was Ed. at Marlborough & University College, Oxford, but left prematurely when his family emigrated to New Zealand. Became a schoolmaster at Wanganui College & returned to England in 1915 where he obtained a commission in the 9th (S) Battalion Rifle Brigade. He was killed in action during a diversionary attack near Ypres, in support of the Loos offensive, on 25th September 1915, has no known grave & is commemorated on the Menin Gate. He was twenty-nine. Memorial containing obituaries and tributes plus lengthy letters from the front during four months in the Ypres Salient, the last written before going into his last action: "I am leaving this in the hands of the Transport Officer, and if I get knocked out he will send it on to you. We are going into a big thing. It will be my pleasant duty to leap lightly over the parapet and lead D company over the delectable confusion of old trenches, crump holes, barbed wire, that lies between us and the Bosche, and take a portion of his line. Quo facto I shall then proceed to bomb down various communication trenches and take his second line. In the very unlikely event of my being alive by then I shall dig like blazes and if God is good, stop the Bosche counter-attack..." Orig. apple green cloth, titled in black to front board, little rubbed at extremities o/w VG & scarce. See illustrations on our website.   £220
Standing Orders of the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own). viii+94pp. (with blank interleaves). Chatham: G&P. 1891  #65748
[HLMainPic] Customary regimental organisation, duties, &c. Orig. green cloth, somewhat worn but near VG with pencil ownership inscrip. of E.A.F. Dawson (Ed. Eton, served as a regular officer in the RB 1885-1905 & commanded the 6th Special Reserve Bn. 1911-1917. Served in Boer War). See illustration on our website.   £30
The History of the London Rifle Brigade 1859-1919. 1st Ed., text & mapcase: xx+515p., 6 plates, 17 sketch maps in text + 5 lge. fldg. maps in separate case. Constable. 1921  #63056
[HLMainPic] 5th Londons F&F 1914-18 Plugstreet, 2nd Ypres, 1/7/16 at Gommecourt &c. Detailed & readable history with num. anecdotes &c. Appendices inc. officers' services, awards. Complete: text + 5 fldg. maps in separate mapcase. Orig. green cloth, silver gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £50
The Making of an Officer: or, A Boy's Life Told in His Letters by the Late Captain Arthur Coke Burnell, 2nd Bn. Rifle Brigade. 1st Ed., viii+190pp., 220x184mm, portrait frontis., 8 plates. Winchester: Printed by Warren & Sons for Private Circulation. 1916  #65998
[HLMainPic] Arthur Coke Burnell was born in 1894, educated at West Downs, Winchester & Sandhurst: commissioned in the Rifle Brigade 1913 & joined the 4th Battalion in India; to France in Dec. 1914 as a Platoon Commander in "D" Coy., in action at St Eloi & 2nd Ypres (Acting Adjutant during this battle), wounded in May & after a few months in England joined the 2nd Bn. (commanded by his brother in law, Frank Nugent) as MG Officer in October 1915. He became a Company Commander & was KiA on the evening of 18th March 1916, trying to bring in a man who had been wounded with a wiring party in No-Man's-Land. He was 21 & is buried in the Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix. Burnell was a typical keen, regimentally minded, young regular officer, unreflective but conscientious & brave. He was proud to be appointed Adjutant during the Second Battle of Ypres, "it is really a very great thing for me to have done Adjutant on active service, something that is remembered later on, if there ever is an end to this show! This is about the greatest success I have had since joining, & I can't help feeling that my career as a soldier has been rather a success. I think the Army has a higher opinion of me than Winchester College ever formed." Appealing memorial with interesting letters from school and regiment (both in India and at the Front), a fine portrait in full dress, others in khaki including several taken in or near front line trenches. Orig. half white buckram, rifle green cloth boards, gilt, with badges of the RMC and Rifle Brigade to front board, VG with comp. slip from his father inserted. Rare. See illustrations on our website.   £275
The Rifle Brigade Chronicle 1918. 1st Ed., vi+352pp., 2 fldg. maps. For the RB. 1919  #61918
[HLMainPic] This edition includes war diaries of all regular & service bns. for the year 1915, various useful rolls of officers, awards, several good letters from the front, officers' obituaries &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
The Rifle Brigade Chronicle 1919. 1st Ed., iv+240pp. For the RB. 1921  #64665
[HLMainPic] This edition includes detailed war diaries of the four regular bns. 1916-1918, also various other regimental records & complete index to Chronicles 1909-1919. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £50
The War Diary of H Company 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade. 1st Ed., orig. printed paper covd. boards, 82pp., ep maps. No imprint, Schleswig, Sept. 1945  #65642
[HLMainPic] Appealing history from landing in Normandy June 1944 with 11th Armd. Div., Hill 112, Bocage &c., through Low Countries to Schleswig on the Baltic. Nominal roll with home addresses, Roll of Hon., awards. Nice clean copy, VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £145
[BELL (Capt. D.H., MC)] A Soldier's Diary of the Great War. 1st Ed., xx+252pp. VG in dw. Faber & Gwyer. 1929  #64450
[HLMainPic] Ed. & intro. by Henry Williamson, who had been to school with Bell & served with him in the LRB 1914-15. Bell was commissioned in the Seaforth Highlanders in April 1915 & quickly wounded at Hill 60. Returned to the front for Loos & the Somme, awarded MC, & later transferred to the RFC as a pilot. In 1926, when HW attended the reunion dinner of the original LRB men who had sailed for France in November 1914 per the troopship "Chyabassa" he remet Douglas Bell, who was then writing his war memoirs. HW was a reasonably well known published author by this time & Bell asked for his help which was evidently willingly forthcoming as HW wrote the Introduction to his book. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG in chipped dw with red ink ownership inscrip. "Henry Williamson Georgeham 1928" plus a few light pencilled annotations to his Introduction, suggesting amendments, & one interesting marginal note to Bell's text referencing "P" i.e. Phillip Maddison. See illustrations on our website.   £325

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[BELL (Capt. D.H., MC)] A Soldier's Diary of the Great War. Pre-publication proof, xxi+252 & [6]pp. Faber & Gwyer. 1929  #64452
[HLMainPic] Ed. & intro. by Henry Williamson, who had been to school with Bell & served with him in the LRB 1914-15. Bell was commissioned in the Seaforth Highlanders in April 1915 & quickly wounded at Hill 60. Returned to the front for Loos & the Somme, awarded MC, & later transferred to the RFC as a pilot. In 1926, when HW attended the reunion dinner of the original LRB men who had sailed for France in November 1914 per the troopship "Chyabassa" he remet Douglas Bell, who was then writing his war memoirs. HW was a reasonably well known published author by this time & Bell asked for his help which was evidently willingly forthcoming as HW wrote the Introduction to his book. Pre-publication proof copy sent to HW who has made numerous annotations & suggested changes to his Introduction. Curiously he wanted to call his Introduction 'Inscription' - but this was not adopted by the publishers. This copy also includes two versions of the Epigraph. The longer version appeared in the published version: a shorter version was struck through by HW in green ink & it may well be that his opinion determined the final published version. Issued with plain grey paper wraps., the upper one now lacking, loosely bound & semi-derelict but bibliographically important. See illustrations on our website.   £350

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