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A Soldier of England: Memorials of Leslie Yorath Sanders: Born July 5th, 1893, Killed in Action March 10th, 1917.
1st Ed., [vii]+145pp., portrait frontis. Dumfries: J. Maxwell & Son, Printers.
1920
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Sanders was at Trinity College Cambridge in & enlisted in Queen Victoria's Rifle in 1914, went to France in Feb. 1915 & wounded at Hill 60 in April - an event of which he leaves an interesting account. He was commissioned in the RGA but when he returmed to France in Nov. 1916 he was attached to 3rd Field Survey Coy., RE, & killed when a shell burst in the HQ office in which he was working. Contains interesting & sometimes intensely poignant letters from the front in 1915 & 1916-17, various letters of condolence &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£145
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