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GURNER (Ronald)
Pass Guard at Ypres.
1st Ed., vii+241pp. Dent.
1930
#68206
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Near classic Western Front memoirs in novelised form. Gurner served in F&F with the Rifle Brigade & Cyclist Corps, gaining the MC & being badly wounded. He never really recovered & committed suicide after a successful teaching career at Marlborough, Whitgift &c. Orig. maroon cloth, very nice copy with front panel from the original dw neatly laid onto ffep & ink ownership inscrip. + armorial bookplate of Clarence Van Schaik Mitchell (1890-1966, born in New York & was at Princeton University when he volunteered to serve the French Army in 1914 to fight in a war "that was a crusade against a nation gone mad." After a year of service, he returned to the USA and received his law degree from Harvard in 1917. When United States entered the war he enlisted and went through officer training. In 1918, he returned to France & was a liaison officer for the French General Noel Edouard de Castelnau. His letters home were published as "Letters from a Liaison Officer" by Princeton Univ. Press in 1920. See illustrations on our website.
£85
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