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A Subaltern's Share in the War: Home Letters of the late George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., Attached R.F.C.
Intro. & Notes by Mrs. Horace Porter. 1st Ed., xviii+178pp., portrait frontis., 4 plates. Constable.
1917
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George Weston Devenish was born in 1893, educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, receiving his commission (Royal Horse and Field Artillery) in July 1913. To France in September 1914, joining 6th Battery, 40th Brigade R.F.A., 3rd Division, on the Aisne. He was wounded near his Observation Post at Fauqissart, 28th October 1914, proceeded to France again in June 1915 and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in April 1916; he spent four months as an artillery observer then underwent pilot training. He was killed in action with 35th Squadron, shot down in flames, on 6th June 1917, and is commemorated on the Arras (Flying Services) Memorial. He was twenty-three. Contains lengthy extracts from entertaining and informative letters describing his active service experiences in Flanders and later over the Western Front. Orig. paper covd. boards, sympathetically rebacked in grey cloth, VG thus. See illustration on our website.
£145
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