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ADDY (G.H.)
A Memoir by G.H. Addy of His Son, Kenneth James Balguy Addy, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st King's Royal Rifle Corps. Killed in Action at the Quarries, near Vermelles, October 3rd, 1915.
1st Ed., 176pp., 225x147pp., portrait frontis., sketch map (of battle of Festubert 1915). Printed for Private Circulation by Richard Clay & Sons.
1916
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Kenneth Addy was Ed. at Whitgift but left aged sixteen to join his father in business, also joining the Artist's Rifles, with which he was mobilised in 1914. He went to France in October 1914, was in due course commissioned and joined 1st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps in March 1915. He was twenty-three years old when he fell during the Battle of Loos and is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery. The volume consists almost entirely of letters from the front, initially full of enthusiasm, but by the time of his last letter, written shortly before his death, he had seen enough to appeal: "Come here, you lovers of war, you readers of papers, you editors! Come & see this wet & desolate waste with its hundreds of dead lying, some with glassy eyes turned to heaven; some with faces kissing the sodden earth..." Orig. grey paper covd. boards with cloth wheat cloth backstrip, gilt title to front & sp., VG & rare but lacking ffep. See illustrations on our website.
£225
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