RAWLINSON (Lt.-Col. A., CMG, CBE, DSO)
Adventures on the Western Front August 1914-June 1915.
1st Ed., ix+316pp., 18 plates, 2 maps. Melrose.
1925
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RAC volunteer owner-driver in 1914, attached GHQ through the Retreat, Marne, & Aisne then to the staff of his brother, Sir Henry Rawlinson, GOC IV Corps from Antwerp to Ypres. Later invented the Toby Mortar & other services: the eponymous mortar was tested in action at the Battle of Aubers Ridge on 9th May 1915. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little rubbed, VG. See illustration on our website.
£90
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