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BLICK (Lt. George)
The 1/4th Bn. The Wiltshire Regiment 1914-1919.
1st Ed., 142pp., 5 maps. Trowbridge: For the Author.
1933
#63375
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Campaign in Egypt & Palestine. Orig. green cloth, titled in black, VG. See illustration on our website.
£60
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CANDOLE (Alec de)
A Rubaiyat of the Trenches.
By de C. [i.e. Alec de Candole]. 1st Ed., 63pp. 195x117mm. VG in chipped dw. Fawcett & Co.
1917
#59206
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A long narrative poem. Alec Corry Vully de Candole was Ed. at Marlborough, left in 1916 to be commissioned in the Wiltshire Regiment, wounded with the 4th Bn. in Oct. 1917 then attd. 49th Bn. MGC, and was Killed in Action in France on 3rd September 1918. He was twenty-one and is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension. Blue paper covd. boards with white cloth backstrip & paper label to front, VG in dw & rare thus, although little chipped & rear panel torn with loss. [Not in Reilly]. See illustration on our website.
£145
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LOCKHART (Capt. J.G.)
Palestine Days & Nights: Sketches of the Campaign in the Holy Land.
1st Ed., 140pp. Robert Scott.
1920
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Scarce personal account of service with "D" Coy. 1/4th Wiltshire Regt. (called 'Westshires' in the book) during battles of Gaza &c. 1917-18. "This little book gives a good idea of the Palestine campaign as it appeared to a junior infantry officer. He gives descriptions of many sites historical because of their sacred associations or because of their links with former campaigns in a country which was the cockpit of the ancient world, as Flanders has been of the modern." - Falls. Orig. maroon cloth, titled in black, sp. little rubbed/worn, generally VG. See illustration on our website.
£125
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SHEPHERD (Major W.S., MC)
The 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (99th) A Record of their Fighting in the Great War, 1914-18.
1st Ed., [viii]+182pp., 12 maps. Aldershot: G&P.
1927
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Western Front from Oct. 1914 with 7th Div., Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Loos, Somme, Arras, 3rd Ypres, March offensive, Champage 1918 (with 19th Div.) &c. Rolls of awards & of officers killed. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, old adhesive stains on eps o/w VG throughout & rare. See illustration on our website.
£125
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