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Ypres 1915   15 Books
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A Soldier of England: Memorials of Leslie Yorath Sanders: Born July 5th, 1893, Killed in Action March 10th, 1917. 1st Ed., [vii]+145pp., portrait frontis. Dumfries: J. Maxwell & Son, Printers. 1920  #66011
[HLMainPic] Sanders was at Trinity College Cambridge in & enlisted in Queen Victoria's Rifle in 1914, went to France in Feb. 1915 & wounded at Hill 60 in April - an event of which he leaves an interesting account. He was commissioned in the RGA but when he returmed to France in Nov. 1916 he was attached to 3rd Field Survey Coy., RE, & killed when a shell burst in the HQ office in which he was working. Contains interesting & sometimes intensely poignant letters from the front in 1915 & 1916-17, various letters of condolence &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £145
[RICHARDSON (James C.)] The Living, And the Living Dead, By An Old Soldier: Ruminations, Whims, Fancies, Jokes & Philosophies with A Batch of War Experiences Thrown in After 1914-1918. 1st Ed., 206pp. Arthur H. Stockwell. [1923].  #60443
[HLMainPic] Several curious chapters of philosophising preface the author's main war memoirs. He had apparently served in the Boer War, rushed to enlist at the Whitehall Recruiting Office on 4th August 1914, where he was kept as a clerk in the recruiting of others. In November he left Whitehall for Aldershot then for France in December where he was attached (with the Military Mounted Police - MiC refers) to 5th Cav. Bde. HQ, invalided by a kick from a horse in May 1915, he went out to Egypt in Jan. 1916, was i/c XV Corps HQ (MP details presumably - he mentions that one of his duties at Port Said was looking out for spies) then with 22 Div. HQ in Salonika & Macedonia. He observed some interesting events in Flanders & the Middle East & makes interesting comments on the local inhabitants of the countries in which he served, the relationship between the French/Flemish peasants & the British soldiery, &c. Orig. blue/green cloth, gilt to front & sp., minor wear, generally VG & rare. This copy with bookplate E.A.R. Ewen plus presentation bookplate from Ewen to The Library at Christ's Hospital [School], Horsham, in 1926. Ewen was an accountant & evidently a friend of the author: tipped-onto ffep is an envelope containing a letter from the author to Ewen: "Dear Ewen / At a time of stress, I stressed a book! And I have asked the publisher to send you on a copy. If you read it, you will have had a 'bewildering diversion.' Yours ever, James C. Richardson." Plus loosely inserted letter from the publisher forwarding the said book. See illustrations on our website.   £125
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
CATCHPOOL (T. Corder) On Two Fronts. Ed. by his sister, Foreword by J. Wendel Harris, DD. 2nd Imp., orig. printed wraps., 160pp. A&U. 1919  #63024
[HLMainPic] Corder Catchpool was a Quaker who served in Flanders throughout 1914-15 as a volunteer with the Friends' Ambulance Unit; he resigned in order to martyr himself before the Compulsory Military Service Act (i.e. the introduction of conscription) by refusing to be called up & went to prison as a conscientious objector. Includes his letters from the Western Front & prison in England, accounts of Courts Martial &c. Originally published in 1918, this the 1919 2nd Impression, VG in wraparound dw, with printed label to front. VG. See illustration on our website.   £30
EBERLE (Lt.-Col. V.F., MC) My Sapper Venture. 1st Ed., viii+208pp., portrait fontis., map. VG in dw. Pitman. 1973  #68212
[HLMainPic] Pre-war TF officer, RE Fd. Coy. in 48th (S. Midland) Territorial Div., served in France & Italy 1915-18 inc. Ploegsteert, Somme (Ovillers), 3rd Ypres (Langemarck), the Piave & Asiago in 1918. Involved, in 1916, in development of the Bangalore Torpedo. VG in dw (trace of old price label to front). Scarce. See illustration on our website.   £35
FETHERSTONHAUGH (R.C.) The 13th Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada 1914-1919. 1st Ed., xv+344pp., frontis. + 9 plates, 3 fldg. maps. Published by the Regiment. 1925  #63157
[HLMainPic] Fine record of service on the Western Front being: "A substantial & detailed account of the Battalion's movements & battles between Feb. 1915 & Nov. 1918... includes quotations from operational orders & as expected from this author, the entire work is lucid & authoritative." - Perkins. Includes Ypres 1915, Festubert, Givenchy, Ploegsteert, Vimy Ridge 1915-16 & again in 1917, Somme, Passchendaele, Amiens 1918, Final Advance &c. Roll of Hon., awards. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to sp. & front, covers stained & worn but sound & complete. See illustration on our website.   £75
GRANT (Sgt. Reginald, 1st Fd. Arty. Bde., 1st Canadian Division) S.O.S. Stand To! 1st Ed., xiii+297pp., frontis., 7 plates. NY & London: Appleton & Co. 1918  #65459
[HLMainPic] Scarce memoir of three years with the artillery of the 1st Canadian Div. inc. second Ypres 1915, Givenchy, third Ypres 1917, Somme & Vimy Ridge. Orig. green cloth, gilt to front & sp., minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
HODDER-WILLIAMS (Ralph, Formerly Lt., PPCLI) Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry 1914-1919. 1st Ed., 2 Vols., xxiii+411 & v+391pp., 7 portraits, 11 fldg. maps (one in end-pocket). Hodder & Stoughton. 1923  #67010
[HLMainPic] Very scarce WW1 history consisting of substantial narrative volume & equally impressive & extensive appendices re operations, + regimental nominal roll noting date joined, awards, casualties &c. "excellent unit history... St. Eloi [1915] through to the final actions on the Canal du Nord." - Perkins 140. Orig. red cloth, gilt, with blue sp. labels, VG, Vol. I in dw. See illustration on our website.   £150
HUSSEY (Brig.-Gen. A.H., CB, CMG) Narrative of the 5th Divisional Artillery 1914-1918. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 55pp. Woolwich: RA Institution. 1919  #68422
[HLMainPic] Rare record of 5th Div. artillery by the CRA 1915-1919. Contains useful accounts of Le Cateau & the Marne, 1914, 2nd Ypres 1915, Somme 1916, Ypres 1917, Final Advance in 1918, &c. Includes order of battle plus rolls of officers who served in the 5th Div. artillery throughout the war. VG with several oval stamps of RA Institution Lib., & ownership inscrip. of "Br.-Genl. W. Sandys R.A. Fulford House." [i.e., Brig.-Gen. William Bain Richardson Sandys, CB, CMG, who was CRA 14th (Light) Div., 1914-17, later BGRA then GOCRA XIX Corps in France]. See illustration on our website.   £100
MICHELIN GUIDE: The Yser & the Belgian Coast. 1st Ed., 128pp., num. photos., maps. 1919  #64909
[HLMainPic] The front from Nieuport to Dixmude & environs. Good & well-illus. intro. with many early post-war photos. Orig. cloth, VG uncommon. See illustration on our website.   £20

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