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HERDMAN (Sir William Abbott)
George Andrew Herdman (1895-1916): The Record of a Short but Strenuous Life.
Drawn up by His Father. 147pp., 204x140mm, portrait frontis. (from a painting by Duddingstone Herdman, A.R.S.A.), 7 plates, sketch map of trenches south of Montauban. Liverpool: Printed for Private Circulation.
1917
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George Andrew Herdman was the son of a distinguished marine naturalist. Born at Liverpool in 1895, he was educated at Clifton College and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1914, but was in residence for just one term when, in January 1915, he received a commission in the 15th (Reserve) Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment. He went to France in August 1915 where he was posted to the 7th Battalion of his regiment and was later transferred to the 18th, a 'Pals' Battalion known as "Trotter's Greyhounds" after its Commanding Officer, and was killed in action in their attack on Glatz Redoubt near Montauban on 1st July 1916. He was twenty years old, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. A memoir, interesting letters from the Front and various letters of condolence.Wheat cloth, gilt to front and spine, little spotted, generally VG & scarce.
£225
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