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An Appreciation and Some of the Letters of the Late 2nd Lieut. T.B. Stowell, M.C., who Fell in Action in France, November 19th, 1917.
Comp;iled by H.C.K. 1st Ed., 61pp., 207x140mm, portrait frontis. Liverpool: Lee & Nightingale, Printers. nd [1918].
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Thomas Brown Stowell was educated at Merchant Taylor's School in Liverpool and Oriel College, Oxford. He found employment with H.M. Office of Works but was released in 1914 when he wished to enlist. He joined the St. Pancras Rifles, 19th London Regiment (Territorial Force), proceeding with a draft to France in 1915; promoted to Sergeant before getting a commission in the South Lancashire Regiment in 1916. He joined the 8th (Service) Battalion South Lancs. in France in January 1917 and was shot in the head by a sniper in front line trenches on 19th November 1917; he was carried to a Dressing Station but died of wounds the same evening and is buried in Béthune Town Cemetery. He was twenty-seven years old. Includes letters from Oxford, in training in 1914, France in 1915 (including a lengthy and graphic account of his experiences during the Battle of Loos); at Cadet School in Scotland in 1916 then from France again in 1917. Also two short, moving prose pieces with the title "Killed in Action." Orig. green cloth with title in gilt to spine, front board decorated with wreath motif and the first line of Horace's 'Dulce et decorum est...' VG.
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