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Letters from Bob (Captain George Pollard Kay) Flight Commander 46th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps.
With an Intro. by Rev. F.E. Brown, Headmaster, Geelong C. of E. Grammar School. 1st Ed., xi+152pp., portrait frontis., 9 photos. Melbourne: Melville & Mullen. nd (c.1917)
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George Pollard Kay, a native of Melbourne, Australia, Ed. at Trinity Grammar School, Kew, & Geelong Grammar School, sailed for England in Feb. 1916 in company with a group of school friends whose aim was to join in the war. Arriving in London, he was accepted for pilot training in the RFC but this was delayed for several months by appendicitis. He was posted to France in Jan. 1917, attached to No. 46 Squadron ("a topping lot of chaps"), flying Nieuport scouts, & saw much service until died of injuries sustained in a crash on 29th June 1917. Contains a short biographical introduction mainly describing sporting achievements & school life, then his letters from Feb. 1916 onwards: voyage to England, training & active service, together with letters of condolence. Contemp. nicely tooled full calf school prize binding, crest of Geelong Grammar Schl. to front, presentation bookplate to paste-down (but attempted removal of this leaving unsightly remains: still nice copy & rare). See illustration on our website.
£120
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