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SETON (W.)
William Howard Lister.
1st Ed., 95pp., portrait frontis., 5 plates. Printed for Private Circulation.
1919
#67476
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Memoir of Captain William Howard Lister, D.S.O., M.C. (and two Bars), Royal Army Medical Corps, who was Ed. at the Friends' School at Ackworth, Buxton College & University College, London. He served with the Red Cross in the Balkan War 1912-14 then became a House Physician at University College Hospital in July 1914, but before taking up residence the war broke out and he immediately obtained a commission in the R.A.M.C., was posted to the 16th Field Ambulance in France, & was in action at the Marne & Aisne until wounded on 23rd October 1914. Recovering from serious wounds, he joined the 18th Division on the Somme in 1916 & was killed in action in Italy in August 1918 whilst serving with the 21st Field Ambulance. He was 31 & is buried in Magnaboschi British Cemetery on the Asiago Plateau. Orig. blue cloth with white buckram backstrip, gilt, number 25 of 500 copies. See illustration on our website.
£90
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