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Royal Army Medical Corps   55 Books
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A Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance in Peace & War. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 60pp. No imprint/date (c.1919)  #66930
[HLMainPic] 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
Comforts for the Wounded in Our Hospitals. Written by the Staff of Fort Pitt Hospital. 1st Ed., orig. pictorial wraps., 36pp., approx. 20 photos. Charham, Mackay & Co. on Behalf of the Committee of the Comforts Fund, [Central Military Hospital, Fort Pitt, Chatham]. 1915  #68378
[HLMainPic] Illustrated record of work at this military hospital in Chatham, 1914-15, including Surgical Division, Operating Theatre, Radiant Heat & Massage Dept., Dispensary, &c. Orig. pictorial wraps., little chipped/rubbed, generally VG & scarce contemporary souvenir.   £60
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  #66944
[HLMainPic] 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
Royal Army Medical Corps Training. 1911. ix+453pp., num. figs./diagrams (several in colour). HMSO. 1911  #67950
[HLMainPic] Training in duties in the Field, care of sick & wounded, first aid, nursing &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, worn, sound. See illustration on our website.   £20
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  #66927
[HLMainPic] 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
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  #65475
[HLMainPic] 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
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.  #67003
[HLMainPic] 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
Two Years After, or Twelve Months of Armageddon: Some Reminiscences of A Temporary Regimental Sawbones 1915-1916. 1st Ed., [v]+105pp. Printed for Private Circulation Only. 1918  #67840
[HLMainPic] Interesting & exceptionally rare privately printed memoirs of "N.D.M." [i.e. N.D. Mackay], serving at a General Hospital in France then attached as MO to the London Scottish (1st Bn. 14th London Regt.) in Oct. 1915. Immediate recollections of service & episodes in France 1915-16 in two main sections: "A Winter in the Loos Salient" & "The Lighter Side of War," the latter in three parts, "At Home & at the Base, B.E.F.," "In & Out of the Trenches" & "In & Out of the Trenches (concluded)." Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front & sp., VG with ink author's initiald to ffep & neat pencil notes of errata in his hand to rear ep. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to sp. & front, sp. dull o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £245
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]  #65951
[HLMainPic] 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
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  #66926
[HLMainPic] 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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