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ANDERSON (Agnes)
"Johnnie" of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps.
1st Ed., 191pp., portrait frontis. Heath Cranton. nd (c.1919)
#67320
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Elizabeth S. Johnston ("Johnnie"), a native of Anstruther, Scotland, became a Post Office telegraphist and later worked in Glasgow for the Western Union Cable Company. She enlisted as a Womens' Auxiliary Army Corps motor driver, later transferring to the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps as a Telegraphist. She died falling – in mysterious circumstances – from St Ouen church tower on Christmas day 1918. She was twenty-seven and is buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. C.W.G.C. records her as No. 18375, rank Telephonist, Q.M.A.A.C. Memoir almost entirely based on letters written from France from December 1917 onwards. Orig. red cloth, titled in blacl, some wear & staining to rear, generally VG & inscribed by the compiler: "To Mrs. A. Gordon, with compliments and best wishes from: Agnes Anderson." See illustration on our website.
£50
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