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T.A.B.
A Year in the Salient & Other Letters by Theodore Anthony Brown, MC, Acting Captain, The Buffs.
1st Ed., 164pp., 204x143mm, portrait frontis., fldg. sketch map (of the Ypres Salient), diagram in text. Printed for Private Circulation by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.
1918
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Theodore Anthony Brown was born in 1889, educated at Tonbridge School and King's College, London. He was interested in the Tonbridge School Mission (at St Pancras) and Boys' Clubs, was employed in the City and was a member of the Cavalry Squadron of the Inns of Court O.T.C. He was gazetted to the 6th Dragoon Guards in August 1914 and served with them in France and Flanders from November 1914-February 1915 when he returned to the U.K. and transferred to the Buffs, or East Kent Regiment (Special Reserve). Was on active service with the 1st Battalion from August 1915 and was awarded the M.C. whilst Bombing Officer in 1916. He was killed in action in a minor attack near Loos whilst in temporary command of "B" Coy., on 15th April 1917, aged twenty-seven, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Contains letters from Ypres 1914 and 1915-16, then on the Somme including Battle of Flers-Courcelette (when he won his M.C. and witnessed the first tanks in action. His account of this event was published in the Tonbridgian in May 1917 and is reproduced here). Orig. buff cloth boards with blue cloth backstrip, gilt, with Buffs badge in blue to front board. Appealing & rare, inscribed "To Muriel from Rose February 1919" together with inserted letter from Rose Anthony Brown, one of his several sisters, which includes the sad statement that "Only four out of my six brothers have survived the war..." (three others were still on service).
£245
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