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AVEBURY (Lady Alice)
Eric Fox Pitt Lubbock: Born 16th May 1893, Killed in aerial fight near Ypres, 11th March 1917; a memoir by his Mother.
1st Ed., vii+253pp., 223x195mm, 9 portraits. Printed for Private Circulation by A.L. Humphreys.
1918
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Eric Fox Pitt Lubbock was born in 1893, son of Lord and Lady Avebury. He was educated at Eton and was at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1914 when he volunteered as a Royal Automobile Club driver, later receiving a commission in the Army Service Corps, then finally transferring to the Royal Flying Corps. He won the M.C. in 1916 with 45 Squadron and was killed in action whilst flying over the Ypres Salient on 11th March 1917. He was twenty-three and his grave lies in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Flanders. Attractive memorial which includes his war diary and letters from the Front, also extracts from his mother's diary. Amongst his papers he left a moving letter for his mother: "My Darling Mum, One is here confronted almost daily with the possibility of Death, and when one looks forward to the next few months the possibility becomes really a probability. I am therefore sitting down now to write to you briefly a few words which in the event of my death I hope may help to comfort you and cheer you… for as my object in life is to comfort and help you, so it is my last hope if I should be taken from you, that I may not cause you too great a grief… one of the questions one asks oneself about it all is, Do I fear death? And I have, I think, convinced myself that I do not… If then I leave this world to enter a fuller and better and happier life, need you grieve for me that I do so? … Try to forget my faults and to remember me only as, Your very loving little son, Eric Lubbock." Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front and spine, inscribed by Alice Avebury to "The Rev. R.G. Griffith with many thanks for all his kindness." Cloth covers & sp. severely stained, hence inexpensive example of a desirable memoir. See illustration on our website.
£125
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