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VERNEDE (R.E.)
Letters to His Wife.
1st Ed., xxi+220pp., portrait frontis. Collins.
1917
#69284
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Robert Ernest Vernède was born in London in 1875, educated at St Paul's School and St John's College, Oxford. A successful novelist, poet and travel writer, he was commissioned in the 5th (Special Reserve) Battalion, Rifle Brigade in May 1915, was attached to the 3rd Battalion 1915-16; wounded on the Somme on 18th August 1916 then served in France with the 12th (Service) Battalion in 1917 and died of wounds received in an attack during the Battle of Arras on 9th April 1917, whilst being carried down to a Dressing Station that same day. He was forty-one years old and is buried in Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension. Contains a memoir by his wife followed by letters from the Front 1915-16 (including Ypres Salient and the Somme) and 1917. As a civilian in uniform he provides an interesting comparison between the regulars and his later experiences with a service battalion: "They havn't nearly as good an idea of making themselves comfortable, feed and live like pigs, and don't get any work out of the servants. Same with the N.C.O.s I should fancy, but that remains to be seen." Vernède's War Poems & Other Verses were published by Heinemann in three impressions, 1917-18. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front & sp., VG & rare. See illustrations on our website.
£165
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