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LAWSON (Harry Sackville)
Letters of a Headmaster Soldier.
1st Ed., 143pp., portrait frontis. H.R. Allenson. Ltd.
1919
#66022
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Memoir and letters of Harry Sackville Lawson, who was born in Somerset in 1876. He was educated at Haileybury, a Technical College at Folkestone and Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He became Headmaster of Buxton College, Derbyshire in 1911. He was gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery in December 1915 and after a period as a gunnery instructor became attached to a newly forming Siege Battery and served in France and Flanders from May 1917 until killed in action by a shell on 5th February 1918. He was forty-one and lies in Montescourt-Lizerolles Communal Cemetery. His letters contain an interesting account of his work and the life of the battery. Grey paper wrappers, titled in brown to front & spine, over plain card wraps., little chipped, generally VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
£185
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