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Victor Gordon Tupper, A Brother's Tribute.
By R.H.T. 1st Ed., [vii]+66pp., 199x138mm, portrait frontis., 7 plates. Printed For Private Circulation Only at the Oxford Univ. Press.
1921
#66002
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Gordon Tupper was born in Ottawa in 1896 but moved to British Columbia where he was Ed. at University School, Victoria, & Highfield, Hamilton: He was the youngest son of the Hon. Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, KCMG, and Lady Tupper, of Vancouver. "In the summer of 1914 he sat for the entrance examination into the Royal Military College at Kingston" but the result of this is not related and with the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, a draft from which helped form the 16th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, the Canadian Scottish. He was promoted to corporal and was in action at Festubert and Ploegsteert Wood in 1915, then to the Cadet School at St Omer, obtaining a commission in his own regiment in September. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1916 and was Killed in Action commanding No. 3 Coy. on 9th April 1917 during the Battle of Arras, aged 21. He is buried in Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St Eloi. Contains numerous extracts from his letters from the Front. Orig. blue cloth, paper spine label, stamps of a previous owner to front & rear paste-downs, lacks ffep, o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£185
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