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"The Robin Hoods" 1/7th, 2/7th & 3/7th Battns. Sherwood Foresters 1914-1918. Written by Officers of the Battalions. 1st Ed., 471pp., 63 photos. & sketches, 17 maps & diagrams (most fldg.). Nottingham: Bell. 1921  #68992
[HLMainPic] All three bns. served on the Western Front, including all main operations 1915-1918, also Easter Rising in Dublin 1916. Roll of Hon., awards. Appealing & detailed history with many illustrations & maps. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG with an interesting, neat ink inscrip. "To Rand as a souvenir of our meeting at VERQUIN - 13th May 1918 and subsequent 'doings' at Labenviere and Choques. From Len. Nottingham Sept. 29th 1934." See illustrations on our website.   £95
178 Siege Battery R.G.A., B.E.F. France 1916-1918. 1st Ed., viii+127pp., 4 plates. Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Printers, Leeds. 1919  #63037
[HLMainPic] 6-inch Howitzer battery formed 1916: to France in October & immediately in action on the Arras front, inc. supporting a raid at Blangy in Jan. 1917, Battle of Arras inc. supporting attacks on Monchy-le-Preux &c., later at 3rd Ypres, Cambrai, Spring Offensive &c. Nominal roll of original Battery, another at demobilization, Roll of Hon. (inc. wounded & gassed), awards. Useful account with much interesting detail on the work of the battery & several most interesting appendices including Battery Humour &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. Ownership inscrip. of W.N. Bates, listed as a Gunner in the nominal roll of the original battery. See illustration on our website.   £100
332 Siege Battery R.G.A. An Account of its Adventures in the Great War, 1917-18. Compiled from Notes & Recollections of Officers of the Battery. 1st Ed., ix+134pp., 22 photos., 5 fldg. maps. Windsor: Oxley & Son, Printers. nd (c.1920s)  #61958
[HLMainPic] 6-In. How. Battery formed Jan. 1917: F&F from May starting in Ploegsteert Sector then 3rd Ypres, down to Bertrancourt for March Retreat & Final Advance from Mericourt to Bois l'Evecque. Detailed history. Roll of officers & WOs (with brief services), Roll of Hon. Orig. dec. blue cloth, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £95
A Memoir of Tom Edgar Grantley Norton, Second Lieutenant, 1st Batt. East Surrey Regiment, Who fell mortally wounded on Hill 60 near Ypres, Tuesday, April 20th, 1915. 1st Ed., 80pp., portrait frontis., 6 plates, sketch map. Privately printed, nd (c.1916).  #69305
[HLMainPic] Tom Edgar Grantley Norton was a trainee architect, educated at Uppingham and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was commissioned in 1914 and went to France in January 1915. He was killed in action at Hill 60 on 20th April 1915, aged thirty-one, and lies in Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery. Includes extracts from letters during his brief front line service, also details of the action in which he lost his life, together with a sketch map of the trenches at Hill 60, contributed by a brother officer. These are followed by several obituaries and a selection of his articles on architecture and other matters written for various journals. Plates include the memorial to him erected in Eglwysbach Church, Denbighshire: "...killed near Ypres... while gallantly holding the crest of Hill 60 against the Germans and was buried on the field of battle." Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front, VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.   £225
An Australian in the R.F.A., Being Letters & Diary of Adrian Consett Stephen, Lieut., R.F.A., MC, CdeG. 1st Ed., xviii+200pp., portrait frontis. Sydney: Penfold. 1918  #68457
[HLMainPic] Adrian Consett Stephen was ed. at Sydney Grammar School & St Paul's College in the University of Sydney. He graduated B.A. in 1913 and obtained his LL.B. in 1915. Had he not decided to enlist he would have been called to the Bar. However, he was commissioned in the RFA on 1st June 1915 and proceeded to France in August. He was initially attached to a Trench Mortar Battery, then to "D" Battery 242 Army Brigade R.F.A. Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1917, later awarded the MC during operations at Passchendaele (he was in temporary command of the battery for several months, with acting rank of Major). He was KiA 14th March 1918 & is buried in La Clytte Military Cemetery. A book of his dramatic compositions written before the war was published under the title 'Four Plays' by Penfold & Co. in 1918. Contains a lengthy obituary notice published in the Sydney Morning Herald, a Preface by his father & his letters from the Front from August 1915 onwards including a most interesting account of artillery work on the Somme, containing his impressions of the first day of the offensive, the attack at Pozières later in July and the capture of Thiepval on 26th September. In 1917 he was involved in the capture of Vimy Ridge and the Third Battle of Ypres. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, covers damp speckled o/w VG, inscribed "L.B. Heath in memory of his friend The Auithor." See illistration on our website.   £125
Artillery & Trench Mortar Memories, 32nd Division. 1st Ed., 687pp. Printed by Unwin Bros. 1932  #63558
[HLMainPic] Very substantial compilation by Old Comrades, containing diaries of Lt. A.B. Scott, MC, of "X" & "W" TM Batteries & Reconnaissance Officer, 32nd Div. Artillery HQ; Rev. R.E. Grice-Hutchinson, MC, Chaplain, 32nd Div. Artillery; late Major L. Heathcote-Amory, Staff Capt., 32nd Div. Artillery (DoW Aug. 1918) & brief recollections by seven others. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
Artillery & Trench Mortar Memories, 32nd Division. 1st Ed., 687pp. Printed by Unwin Bros. 1932  #68462
[HLMainPic] Very substantial compilation by Old Comrades, containing diaries of Lt. A.B. Scott, MC, of "X" & "W" TM Batteries & Reconnaissance Officer, 32nd Div. Artillery HQ; Rev. R.E. Grice-Hutchinson, MC, Chaplain, 32nd Div. Artillery; late Major L. Heathcote-Amory, Staff Capt., 32nd Div. Artillery (DoW Aug. 1918) & brief recollections by seven others. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, sp. tanned/little marked o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £125
Artillery Operations of the Ninth British Corps at Messines, June, 1917. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 124pp., 4 fldg. plates, 10 fldg. maps, 2 tables. Edited at Army War College, Aug. 1917, printed by US Govt. Ptg. Office, Washington. 1917  #66734
[HLMainPic] Designated CONFIDENTIAL! For official use only NOT TO BE TAKEN INTO FRONT LINE TRENCHES. Contains a detailed study of artillery preparations for the Battle of Messines, 7th June 1917, & reproduces various instructions, orders, reports, intelligence & communications. A Summary of Artillery Operations explains that "Systematic trench bombardment & wire cutting was commenced about May 21, 1917, & was intensified about May 28. During the period May 28 to June 6, inclusive, 297 trench bombardments were carried out with aeroplane observation. Wire was cut along front & support lines by trench mortars & 18-lbr. batteries, & on rear lines by 6-inch howitzers with aeroplane observation..." The most informative text is supported by reproductions of four aerial photos. of parts of the Messines battlefield & ten excellent actual size 1:10,000 & 1:20,000 British operational fldg. trench maps, barrage maps, &c., & several tables, all reproduced in colour. Objectives, barrage lifts &c. are shown in great detail. Orig. brown printed wraps., chipped & worn, signs of much use but generally VG, complete & rare. See illustrations on our website.   £225
Belgium Sheet 28NW. Ed. 5A. 1:20,000. Detailed named German trench systems in the Ypres Salient from Boesinghe in the north round Ypres & down to Battle Wood. Trenches corrected to 1/4/17. See illustration on our website.  #68909
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Denis Oliver Barnett: In Happy Memory. His Letters from France & Flanders October 1914-August 1915. 1st Ed., xi+238pp., 243x173mm, portrait frontis., 3 plates. Privately Printed in a numbered limited edition of 150 copies. 1915  #69294
[HLMainPic] Denis Oliver ("Dobbin") Barnett was born in 1895, left St Paul's School in 1914 as Captain of School, with a scholarship to Balliol; instead of going up to Oxford straightaway he enlisted in the Artists' Rifles and was in France with them in October; commissioned in the Leinster Regiment in January 1915 and promoted to Lieutenant in June. Served with 2nd Battalion in the Armentières sector and the Ypres Salient until wounded at Hooge on 15th August 1915 with "A" Company. He died of wounds the following day, aged twenty, and is buried at Poperinghe New Military Cemetery. Contains most interesting and entertaining letters throughout his active service, with much amusement at the antics and expressions of his Irishmen ("Apparently about half the regiment is called Paddy, and the other half Micky, and they all write to Bridget! They are real performing Irishmen from Tipperary, Cork, and so on… They are very good men, and keep their rifles very well… They will only obey their own officers… but they make magnificent fighters… Of course drunkenness is the main crime…") On one occasion Barnett, "Visited the soldiers-under-arrest, as they are called in Army Orders, and asked for complaints. Private Sherry wanted clean under-clothes! Of course I knew he'd sold them for drink, so I told him to try the pawnbrokers. Loud cheers from the guard and the other prisoners. Collapse of Private Sherry…" The earlier letters are written in the light-hearted spirit of the early-war period, but they gradually give way to a grim determination. In January 1915 it was all a great game, in spite of the obvious dangers: "By day they sniped a good deal… We signalled their shots with a long soup-ladle thing, which we use for baling – it's just like the thing they use on the range in England. Then we put a hat on the soup-ladle and they hit that; so we just held the whole business up high, and let them see their bag, and they were so fed up that they ceased to fire for a bit. Some Scotchmen on our left began playing bagpipes, and the Germans were so exasperated with this dastardly method of warfare that they turned a maxim [gun] on, and the noise ceased… It is some game being an officer. We had china plates and so on in the trenches, and top-hole food… It's a cushey life nowadays and I love it." By June the novelty was wearing off, and shell-shortage was evidently an issue of concern: "One of our guns fired a shot yesterday. Someone will be cashiered for that. I expect they were cleaning it, and it went off on them. Meanwhile the German guns never stop pounding away, day and night, always on some target or other, whether its on the trenches or something way behind. That makes a man feel rather vicious sometimes. I hope to God there will be a change soon."Orig. rust cloth, gilt, VG & rare, No. 86 of 150 numbered copies, inscribed "J.W. Gould Jan. 1916 from P.A. Barnett."   £275

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