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DUGDALE (Capt. Geoffrey, MC)
"Langemarck" & "Cambrai" - A War Narrative 1914-1918.
2nd Imp., 132pp., portrait frontis., 11 photos., 2 maps. VG in chipped dw. Shrewsbury: Printed & Published by Wilding & Son Ltd. (for the author).
1932
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Excellent, scarce locally printed memoir of service with Shropshire Yeomanry in UK then posted to 6th King's Shropshire Light Infantry in France, Sept. 1916. Fine personal account of the battles named in the title & other events on active service 1916-18. Orig. black cloth, white ink titling to front & sp., VG in sl. chipped but very rare & striking pictorial dw featuring illustration 'The Tank Battle' by John Dugdale. The author Henry Williamson's copy, inscribed thus in red pencil alongside "Shallowford, 1932." Additionally, a number of passages are marked & annotated in the same red pencil (plus one or two later annotations in biro), some being caustic comments or suggestions re the writer's prose, others referencing "P" or "Phil" indicating use of them for ideas & inspiration for the 1917 volume of "Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight" (i.e., "Love & The Loveless"), particularly during the Battle of Cambrai, such as, when Dugdale writes: "As far as we could see on the right they marched, three brigades in line, each battalion in fours. I cannot describe in words what a wonderful sight it was" HW adds in the margin "Ph. sees this." This is just one of a number of occasions when Dugdale's experiences were adopted for Phillip Maddison. In other places, HW is critical, such as when Dugdale writes: "My battalion snipers had the time of their lives: never before had they been given such targets. We literally kept a game book of hits for the first three days" HW adds a marginal note: "Caddish betrayal also FOOL to awaken hostility." See illustrations on our website.
£500
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