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ARNEWOOD [Pseud. of COOKE (Col. E.D.M.H. [Montague], DSO, RA)]
With the Guns West & East.
Illustrated by Lt.-Col. E.A. Hobday, CMG (& two sketches by L. Raven Hill). 1st Ed., 96pp., 26 plates. Privately published in a Limited Edition of 200 Copies.
1923
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Cooke went to France with 5th Royal Horse Artillery Brigade in 1914. Subsequently commanded a Battery & gives a very good account of The Battle of Loos, when he acted in support of 15th (Scottish) Div. In 1916 he took a newly raised New Army battery of the 34th Div. to France & fought with them on the Somme until August when selected to form a gunnery school in India. Later served with 60th (London) Div. in Palestine 1917-18 including the capture of Jerusalem. Falls says "This last is particularly interesting as he gives a graphic account of the capture of Jerusalem, into the suburbs of which he must have been about the first man in the British Army to penetrate." Orig. blue paper covd. boards with wheat cloth spine strip, paper label to front board, VG, number 47 of 200 copies printed, rare, inscribed in ink on half title: "From the Author Montague Cooke Nov. 1926" beneath which is inscribed: "Died in Milford-on-Sea in March 1957. He was one of the first officers (R.H.A.) to enter Jerusalem on the morning of Dec. 9th 1917 & himself accepted the key of the G.P.O. in token of surrender. It was a proud exhibit in his home in New Milton." See illustration on our website.
£225
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