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HARVEY (Harold)
A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire.
1st Ed., xiv+176pp., portrait frontis., 40 plates of sketches, map. Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. nd (c.1916).
#68192
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Acclaimed commercial artist joined 2nd Bn. Royal Fusiliers in the ranks 1914 (had previous experience in the Yeomanry); shortly sailed for Malta then to the Western Front in December. Descriptions & sketches of these travels, life in the line &c. until "bowled over by shrapnel & poison gas" during 2nd Battle of Ypres, 1915. Orig. mustard pictorial cloth, VG. Rare original edition with appealing drawings. See illustration on our website.
£60
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