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James Colin MacLehose 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade 1897-1917.
1st Ed., 39pp., 5 portraits, 2 other plates. Glasgow: Printed for Private Circulation at the University Press.
1918
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James Colin MacLehose was elder son of J.C. MacLehose, publisher to Glasgow University, and his wife Mary. He was educated at Rugby, 1911-16; from school he went to the 4th Officers' Cadet Battalion at Oxford, was commissioned in the Rifle Brigade in November and joined the 16th (Service) Battalion in France in January 1917. He was killed in action on 14th February – rather less than six weeks after arriving – his last words as he was wounded being "Carry on, men, carry on." He was leading a raiding party in a night raid east of Ypres and had not even reached the German wire when mortally wounded; the raid failed, the wire being uncut by the artillery preparation. He lies in Brandhoek Military Cemetery and was nineteen years of age. Contains a memoir of his life with recollections by contemporaries. Orig. brown paper covd. boards with leather lettering label to spine. VG. See illustration on our website.
£145
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