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SORLEY (C.H.) The Letters of Charles Sorley, With a Chapter of Biography. 1st Ed., xiii+320pp., portrait frontis. Cambridge University Press. 1919  #63197
[HLMainPic] The poet Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in 1895, Ed. at Marlborough & was studying at the University of Jena on the outbreak of war. Briefly detained, he reached home and received a commission in the 7th (S) Battalion Suffolk Regiment. Served in France from May 1915, promoted to captain and was Killed in Action at Loos on 13th October 1915. He was twenty years old & is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Includes letters whilst travelling in Germany, then over 100pp. in training 1914-15 and at the front in 1915. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, rather rubbed & worn ex-circ. lib., generally sound. See illustration on our website.   £25

     




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