LOCKYER (Capt. Hughes C[ampbell], CB, RN)
Gallipoli, Cape Helles, April, 1915. The Tragedy of "The Battle of the Beaches" Together with the proceedings of H.M.S. "Implacable." Including the Landings on X. & W. Beaches.
2nd Ed., revised, 27pp., 2 sketch maps (The Battle of the Beaches & 'Working Plan of Implacable Beach'). Langport, Somerset: Herald Press [for the author].
1936
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Scarce in any form & this the rare enlarged & revised edition, issued in printed paper covd. boards with red cloth backstrip & corners. The somewhat controversial author, in 1915 commander of 'Implacable,' describes his ship's role in 29th Div. landing at Cape Helles & the apparently disastrous change in orders to RN ships (which he ignored) to shell the "coastal ridges" instead of the beaches. VG & rare, printed & circulated at the author's expense: this copy inscribed by the author "To Elizabeth P. Hosford from Hughes C. Lockyer Jan. 1937." VG. See illustration on our website.
£245
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