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LUBBOCK (Percy)
George Calderon: A Sketch From Memory.
1st Ed., 194pp., 228x150mm, portrait frontis., 10 plates (including leaf from a sketchbook & 4 drawings by the subject). Grant Richards Ltd.
1921
#68286
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George Calderon, author & playwright, was born in 1868 & educated at Rugby & Trinity College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar, studied at St Petersburg & worked in the British Museum Library from 1900-1903; thereafter he devoted all his efforts to family life, writing & producing plays, travel, sketching & so forth. He went to Flanders as an interpreter with the Royal Horse Guards on 5th October 1914 and in the same month received a (rather irregular) battlefield commission in the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment; he later transferred to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry & was attached to the 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers at Gallipoli where, in an attack on 4th June 1915, he was posted missing and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. He was forty-six years old. Contains an account of his life drawing, the recollections of several friends, with extracts from letters written from Flanders during the First Battle of Ypres, when having arranged an attachment to the Warwicks he was wounded the same day that he adopted their badges and "burnt my interpreter's brassard." Recovering at home, he was officially commissioned in the Ox. and Bucks., then posted to the Dardanelles & attached to the K.O.S.B. as a platoon commander on arrival about 27th May. Letters describe his journey, arrival & brief service with the battalion, covering some dozen or so pages. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to sp. & front, VG & rare memoir. See illustrations on our website.
£225
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