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Henry Dundas, Scots Guards: A Memoir.
1st Ed., xv+253pp., portrait frontis. Blackwood.
1921
#67352
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Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas was born in 1897 at Edinburgh, Ed. Eton & commissioned in the Scots Guards in Sept. 1915. He joined the 1st Bn. in France in June 1916, serving with them up until his death (apart from some time attached to Brigade Staff) and was awarded the MC and Bar. Dundas was KiA on 27th September 1918 during the attack on the Hindenburg Line (his Commanding Officer wrote "Death was practically instantaneous, and he could have suffered no pain. He was shot by a sniper, the bullet going through his heart") and is buried in Hermies Hill British Cemetery, between Bapaume and Cambrai. He was twenty-one years old. Memoir consisting mostly of his interesting letters 1916-18, describing aspects of trench warfare such as raids and patrols and presenting an authentic veteran's view of the Western Front including the Somme and Passchendaele. Also various letters of condolence, including one from J.M. Barrie. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, sp. dull, little wear, generally VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£100
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BAYLY (Hugh Wansey, MC)
Triple Challenge; or War, Whirligigs & Windmills: A Doctor's Memoirs of the Years 1914-1929.
1st Ed., 396pp., 17 illus., map. Hutchinson.
1933
#65194
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Temp. Surgeon RN 1914-15; MO to 1st Scots Guards in France 1916 until wounded on the Somme on 15th September & with a Field Ambulance 1917-18 (56th Div. in 1918). Orig. blue cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.
£30
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CATTO (Alexander)
With the Scottish Troops in France: Stories of The Gordons, Seaforths, Guards, Royal Field Artillery, Royal Engineers Etc.
1st Ed. in volume form, reproduced from the pages of the Aberdeen Daily Journal, orig. dec wraps., 88pp. Aberdeen Daily Journal Office.
1918
#60397
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A most interesting & varied selection of pieces by Alexander Catto, the Aberdeen Journal's Special Correspondent at the Front, reproducing numerous atmospheric & interesting episodes relating to Scottish regiments in France from 1915-18, both in & out of action. Attractive, rare, & of great interest. See illustrations on our website.
£145
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CUDDEFORD (D.W.J.)
And All for What? Some War Time Experiences.
1st Ed., 226pp. Heath Cranton.
1933
#67384
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Rare memoir that deserves greater acclaim: Cuddeford came home from Nigeria in 1914 & enlisted in the Scots Guards, serving with them in Caterham & London then comm. 12th HLI, 15th (Scottish) Div. & served on the Somme, Ancre & Arras as platoon & coy. commander (his accounts of Flers Courcelette & Arras are outstanding) before secondment to King's African Rifles in July 1917 & ended the war as adjt., 4/2nd KAR in East Africa. Orig. red cloth, gilt, ex-Times Book Club., little marked & worn, o/w sound & VG. See illustration on our website.
£75
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PETRE (F. Loraine), EWART (Wilfred) & LOWTHER (Maj.-Gen. Sir Cecil)
The Scots Guards in the Great War 1914-1918.
1st Ed., xiii+349pp., 15 maps. Murray.
1925
#64696
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Western Front & Italy. Roll of Hon., awards, &c. Orig. cloth, sp. sunned o/w VG with armorial bookplate of Henry Walter Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (who served in the Scots Guards 1887-1907 as Hon. Henry Walter Trefusis - the rest was added later). See illustration on our website.
£60
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