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In Memoriam Captain Harold Ludington Hemingway, Company F, 104th Infantry, USA. Born at New Haven, Connecticut, May 25, 1893. Died at Glorieux, France, October 21, 1918 of wounds received in action near Verdun.
1st Ed., 81pp., 222x182mm, portrait frontis., 6 photos., map. New Haven: Privately Printed at the Yale Unv. Press.
1920
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A memoir of school & college life (Hopkins Grammar School & Yale College) then a career in commerce until his military service which commenced in May 1917. Arriving in France in Feb. 1918 he was in action at the Chemin des Dames, Chateau Thierry, & St. Mihiel, events which are described in interesting & engaging detail in his letters from the Front. Includes various letters from colleagues describing his services & the work of his regiment. Orig. blue paper covd. boards, gilt to front, with wheat cloth backstrip, this lacking a small paper lettering label, o/w VG. See illustrations on our website.
£65
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