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Letters & Memorials of Captain William A. Douglas, 6th Bn. The Royal Scots. With a Preface by the Rev. James Black, Broughton Place U.F. Church, Edinburgh. 1st Ed., viii+255pp., 192x133mm, portrait frontis., 32 photos. Edinburgh: Printed and Published by Andrew Brown. 1920  #66059
[HLMainPic] William Anderson Douglas was born in 1890 and educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, becoming an electrical engineer employed by James Gray & Son, Ironmongers. He was a pre-war Territorial officer in the 6th Royal Scots and mobilized with that unit in 1914, initially to Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, then to Egypt 1915-16 and finally to the Western Front in May 1916 where he was killed in action during the night of 24th August, commanding an entrenching party about 1000 yards south-south-west of Guillemont. Captain Douglas was commanding "W" Company at the time of his death; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was twenty-six years old. Detailed letters (mostly wriiten to his mother) describing the activities of the Western Frontier Force in the Egyptian Desert (at places better known in 1941-42: Mersah Matruh, Sollum etc.), then for several months in France. These are followed by obituaries and a selection of letters of condolence. Orog. purple cloth, gilt to spine and front sp. & edges sunned, o/w VG.   £165
[MONCREIFF (Major Richard Henry Fitzherbert, TD] Journal of an "Edinburgh Mountaineer" 1914-1919. Unpublished memoirs: 78+4pp., 4to, dup. typescript (23,000 words approx.)  #67032
[HLMainPic] Unpublished WW1 memoirs of service with 9th (TF) Bn. Royal Scots. Monreiff was an Edinburgh accountant & pre-war TF officer, mobilised in 1914 as "G" company commander (under the eight company system then prevailing); this Coy. became "C" in due course & Moncreiff commanded it it at second Ypres & an attack at High Wood on 23rd July 1916 when he was wounded. He describes working up for overseas service then the Western Front from February 1915. A lasting impression was bathing at the first billets, at Abeele, in Flanders: "A large tub filled with greasy hot water, heated in the men's dixies & four officers using it in turn, right in the middle of the kitchen floor, as almost too much for the succession of farm hand spectators, as indeed for the bathers themselves. George & I, with our usual magnaminity, waived our seniority, & we solemnly drew lots. I was second. Poor old Don was last & his rueful face was very funny as he sat on the edge wondering if after all it was quite worth while." Not long afterwards more serious events took place: "And now we come to the famous 23rd April. For two or three days the Boche had been shelling Ypres very heavily, and on the 22nd they were coming in hot & strong all day. The town was burning fiercely, & we could see great columns of smoke going up. Late in the afternoon we got the order to stand by & packed our valises... The stream of refugees, old men, women & children, staggering under the load... half crazed with despair & terror, was one of the most pitiful & pathetic sights I have ever seen... Later came bands of 'Turcos' all more or less suffering from gas poisoning..." In the afternoon of the 23rd April the 9th Royal Scots counter-attacked near St. Jean, Moncreiff led "C" Coy. into battle: "We set off in two lines, or waves, with two platoons in each, I myself going with the first line... We advanced up a long slope & eventually came to a ridge looking across a small valley. The Boche was in force on the opposite ridge, & as soon as we came over the crest we began to come under long range rifle & machine gun for... having a lot of men hit, mostly wounded fortunately..." The writer survived this event but in July he was injured while horse riding & evacuated to England. When he returned to the Front in March 1916, now a Major, he alternated between commanding "C" Coy. & acting as second-in-command. He commanded his company in the attack at High Wood on 23rd July 1916, when he was wounded: "I was hit by shell fire in the neck, shoulder & very slightly in the face & left hand... I collapsed into a shell hole, where was another wounded warrior, & we bandaged each other up..." He returned to France for a third time in 1917 but this time his service there was fairly brief & uneventful & he was posted to the War Officer as a staff captain in the AG's Branch, where he ended the war. This account was evidently written for this wife during 1918-1919; this copy, which is numbered 3, is a carbon typescript with a number of small ink corrections to the text, in contemp. blue binder's cloth with gilt title to sp. VG. See illustrations on our website.   £465
BUCHAN (John) The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678-1918). 1st Ed., xvi+502pp., 12 plates, 36 maps (some fldg.). Nelson. 1925  #65590
[HLMainPic] Includes Marlborough's Wars, Napoleonic, Crimea, Zulu, Trasvaal, 2nd Boer & First World Wars. Orig. red cloth, gilt, somewhat worn, sound. Signed in pencil by Sam Warnock, father of Robert Warnock who won the MC & was killed on the Somme with the 7th (S) Bn. (& who is the subject of a memorial volume: "Robert Warnock: Scout & Soldier" [1917]). Loosely inserted contemp. notices of his MC & death. See illustration on our website.   £75
DOWSON (Roger J.) Manchester Scottish: The Story of the Manchester Contingent of the 15th Battalion, Royal Scots 1914-1918. Witha Record of manchester & Salford Men Who Served in the Regiment. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 91pp., A4 format, num. photos. & portraits. Manchester: Neil Richardson. 2000  #67058
[HLMainPic] Detailed record with biographical notes & portraits of num. servicemen. Orig. dec. wraps., VG, signed by author & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £35
EWING (Major J., MC) The Royal Scots 1914-1918. 1st Ed., 2 Vols., xxxi/xii+825pp., 36 illus., 42 maps (many fldg.). VG in dws. Oliver & Boyd. 1925  #64332
[HLMainPic] Bns. served in France & Flanders, Gallipoli, Egypt & Palestine, North Russia. Plates of the officers &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG in dws. See illustration on our website.   £65
EWING (Wm., MC, CF) From Gallipoli to Baghdad. 1st Ed., xii+306pp., 17 plates, map. H&S. 1917  #60692
[HLMainPic] Chaplain attd. 4th Royal Scots at Gallipoli then to a General Hospital & later on to 1st Seaforths in Mespot. 1916-17. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little rubbed, frontis. creased, generally VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £65
MURE (Major A.H., TD) With the Incomparable 29th. 1st Ed., [vii]+206pp. Chambers. 1919  #61103
[HLMainPic] Author served with 5th Royal Scots in 29th Div., landing at V Beach, battles for Fir Tree Wood & Krithia &c. until evacuated, being 'all in' after 42 days under fire. Orig. rust cloth, VG. with little wear to sp. (trace of white ink lettering to foot of sp., no other markings). See illustration on our website.   £45
MURE (Major A.H., TD) With the Incomparable 29th. 1st Ed., [vii]+206pp. Chambers. 1919  #64391
[HLMainPic] Author served with 5th Royal Scots in 29th Div., landing at V Beach, battles for Fir Tree Wood & Krithia &c. until evacuated, being 'all in' after 42 days under fire. Orig. rust cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.   £75
POMEROY (Major the Hon. Ralph) et al. History of the Royal Scots Greys (The Second Dragoons) August 1914-March 1919. 1st Ed., 216pp. For the Regiment. 1932  #63261
[HLMainPic] France & Flanders, a good, solid narrative with much on the 1914 campaign. Awards roll, officers' service details. Orig. grey cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
POMEROY (Major the Hon. Ralph) et al. History of the Royal Scots Greys (The Second Dragoons) August 1914-March 1919. 1st Ed., 216pp. For the Regiment. 1932  #65952
[HLMainPic] France & Flanders, a good, solid narrative with much on the 1914 campaign. Awards roll, officers' service details. Orig. grey cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.   £100

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