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A Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance in Peace & War.
1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 60pp. No imprint/date (c.1919)
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2nd South Midland Mounted Field Ambulance, TF, served in Gallipoli, Egypt & Palestine. Detailed appendices include details of those KiA, DoW, wounded, noting date & location; roll of awards & a complete nominal roll of the unit noting theatres of war in which each member served. Orig. dec. paper wraps., VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
£95
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On Active Service: 54th Field Ambulance R.A.M.C., A.T.N. (18th Division) 1915-16-17-18.
1st Ed., 38pp. Norwich: Jarrolds.
1918
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A brief history of their movements with complete nominal roll (including attached ASC), Roll of Honour. Orig. wheat cloth, somewhat stained, o/w VG with pencil ownership inscrip. of Pte. J.G. Atkinson 22971 54th Field Amb. France. Scarce. See illustration on our website.
£65
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The 2/1st London Field Ambulance: An Outline of the 4 1/2 Years Service of a Unit of the 56th Division at Home & Abroad during the Great War 1914-1918.
1st Ed., 104pp., portrait frontis., 8 photos., 2 fldg. maps. Morton, Burt & Sons Ltd.
1924
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Inc. Battle of the Somme 1916 when thousands poured through their ADS located at Hebuterne (of which there are several interesting photos.) & back to the MDS at Couin. Later at Arras in 1917 & 1918, Third Ypres, March Retreat &c. Locations of MDSs &c. shown on fldg. map. Roll of Hon., awards. Sp. & corners little rubbed, some splitting to spine, original ownership inscrip. on front paste-down heavily obliterated with black ink, generally sound, superior edition bound in full brown morocco, gilt to front. Rare. See illustration on our website.
£95
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The Lead Swinger: The Bivouac Journal of the 1/3rd West Riding Field Ambulance. Vol. I, September to December 1915.
Approx. 160pp., 4to, sketches &c. throughout. Sheffield: Northend Printers.
1916
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The first six numbers (+ Christmas 1915 Supplement) of superior unit journal of 'trench newspaper' originally locally printed & circulated within the unit on the Western Front & here reproduced in volume form. The Editor's introduction explains: "The articles were written & the sketches drawn in the trenches, the dressing station or the field hospital." Two further volumes were published 1916-19 & reprinted in the same form as this (scarcer first volume) in 1921. Orig. printed boards with cloth backstrip, somewhat worn, about VG. See illustration on our website.
£90
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The Lead Swinger: The Bivouac Journal of the 1/3rd West Riding Field Ambulance. Volume I, September to December 1915. [Together with:] Volumes II & III, March 1916-March 1919.
Vol. I approx. 160pp., 4to, sketches &c. throughout & Vols. II & III bound together, 545pp., 4to, sketches &c. throughout. Sheffield: Northend Printers.1916/1921.
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One of the best unit journals of the war, originally published in manuscript on the Western Front & here reproduced in volume form. The first resissued in 1916 & Vols. II & III in 1921. The Editor's introduction explains: "Articles have been written... in the trenches of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle & Thiepval... Temporary editorial offices have consisted of huts, tents, bivouacs, dug-outs, ruined houses, barns & cow-sheds... Many long & adventurous journeys have been undertaken by the box containing the precious manuscript..." Orig. dec. printed paper covd. boards with cloth backstrips, both volumes VG. See illustrations on our website.
£165
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With the 1st/1st South Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance: Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, Salonica 1914-1918.
1st Ed., [iv]+63pp. No imprint/date, but label to rear paste-down of Globe Printing & Binding Works, Aston, Birmingham. [c.1920]
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Arriving at Alexandria in April 1915 the Ambulance spent several months dealing with streams of wounded from Gallipoli. A detachment served at Gallipoli as reinforcement to 2nd Fd. Amb., another section served in Salonica (there is an account of these sub-units' experiences in the text) while the main body took part in the Senussi campaign. Roll of Hon., awards. Orig. red cloth, gilt to front, VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
£145
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With The Forty-Fourths: Being a Record of the Doings of the 44th Field Ambulance (14th Division).
1st Ed., 83pp., portrait frontis. (of five officers), several sketches, 4 maps, diagram of the method of evacuation of wounded from front line to base. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co.
1922
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With the 14th (Light) Div. throughout the war: from training in the UK to Ypres Salient 1915, Somme 1916, Arras 1917, March Retreat &c. Nominal roll (noting those killed & wounded). Deluxe full maroon morocco binding (has also been seen in printed wraps.), VG & rare in any form. See illustration on our website.
£125
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"A ROYAL FIELD LEECH" [Pseud. of SYMONS (Col. F.A., CMG, DSO)]
The Tale of a Casualty Clearing Station.
1st Ed., [vii]+306pp. Blackwood.
1917
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Unusual account by a regular RAMC officer & his unit in the 1914 campaign (Retreat from Mons, the Aisne &c., then on to Festubert 1915 &c). The author was KiA 30/4/17 as ADMS, 9th (Scottish) Div. Orig. cloth, red cloth, gilt, VG, rare & a very nice bright copy. See illustration on our website.
£145
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[LUARD (K.E.)]
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915.
1st Ed., vii+300pp. Blackwood.
1915
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Luard's rewarding authentic early war experiences with an Ambulance Train at 1st Ypres & Neuve Chapelle & a Field Ambulance during 2nd Ypres, Festubert &c. Orig. cloth, sp. titling dull as usual o/w VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.
£125
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BRIGGS (Martin S.)
Through Egypt in War-Time.
1st Ed., 280pp., col. frontis., num. sketches by the author, 2 maps. T. Fisher Unwin.
1918
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The author commanded a Sanitary Section & states: "The object of this volume is to picture Egypt as the soldier has seen it, from Sollum on the borders of Tripoli to Gaza in Palestine, & from the Mediterranean to the First Cataract at Assouan. It has no military significance, for it only records the trivial doings of a non-combatant who has had the unusual experience of having lived in nearly all the camps occupied at various times by the E.E.F." Orig. brown cloth, VG & uncommon. See illustration on our website.
£30
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