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BURTON (Spence, S.S.J.E.)
Letters of Caspar Henry Burton, Jr.
Edited by his brother. 1st Ed., ix+404pp., 230x160mm, portrait frontis. and 7 plates. Privately Printed (by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts).
1921
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Henry Burton was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, educated at Franklin School and Harvard. During an interesting and unusual war career he enlisted in July 1915 in the Hector Munro Ambulance Corps and was commissioned Lieutenant in the British Red Cross. In this capacity he served in the Yser sector in Belgium, then, in October 1915, enlisted in the 29th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. He went to an Officer Cadet Battalion in July 1916 and was commissioned in the Liverpool Regiment in October; wounded in France on 20th May 1917 with the 4th Battalion after several engagements. He transferred to the American Army in February 1918 and served with the American Expeditionary Force in France. Returning to the United States in 1919 he was discharged, but died, apparently as a result of his 1917 wounds, on 24th March 1920. A lengthy memoir including pre-war letters and many from the Front describing his experiences and concerns. Paper covered boards with black cloth spine strip, gilt, VG with presentation inscrip. from the compiler, Spence Burton, to The Rt. Rev. William T.Manning, DD, Bishop of New York.
£95
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