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FOLEY (Henry Arthur, MC)
Three Years on Active Service & Eight Months as a Prisoner-of-War.
1st Ed., 185pp., portrait frontis., 12 plates (by W. Cecil Dunford, Special Artist attached to the Historical Records Section, A.I.F., France), 3 sketch maps. Bridgwater: Walter Belcher (Printed for Private Circulation).
1920
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Informative & rare privately printed personal account of training, active service & PoW camp life, with appealing portrait & illustrations on photographic paper. Foley was educated at Clifton College & enlisted with his brother, Geoff, in the Somerset Light Infantry at Taunton Barracks on 31 Aug. 1914; both were drafted to 6th (S) Bn. & went to France in 1915. In Nov. the brothers were both sent to the GHQ Cadet School at Blendecques & were duly commissioned in the 7th SLI. Geoff was wounded & died of wounds in May 1917, HAF became a captain & company commander, served on the Somme & 3rd Ypres with the 7th Somersets & was captured by the Germans during the Spring Offensive in 1918. Orig. olive green cloth, minor wear, inscribed by the author: "To Mr & Mrs N.J. Molesworth from The Author July 1 1920." See illustrations on our website,
£275
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