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IRELAND (Lockhart Landels)
Pte. John MacLean of the Black Watch and Other Sketches by Lockhart Landels Ireland, Gordon Highlanders.
With Memoir by Rev. A.T. Richardson. 1st Ed., 124pp., portrait frontis., plate of grave marker. Kirkcaldy: Fifeshire Advertiser.
1917
#67571
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No. S/13479 Pte. Lockhart Landels Ireland, 8th/10th Battalion Gordon Highlanders, of Kircaldy, was a son of William L. Ireland and his wife, Ann Heseltine Landels. He was ed. at the High School, Kircaldy and entered his family business. He wrote prose pieces about the imaginary John Maclean, described in the Preface as "miniature word pictures of the effects of the war in humble Fife homes." They were not published in his lifetime but are reproduced here. He enlisted in November 1915 and was killed in action in France on 26th July 1916, aged twenty-nine, and is buried in Flatiron Corps Cemetery, Mametz. A detailed memoir of his life (including extracts from his war letters) followed by his John Maclean stories and other pieces. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front & sp., little wear, VG. See illustrations on our website.
£75
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