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A Memoir of Tom Edgar Grantley Norton, Second Lieutenant, 1st Batt. East Surrey Regiment, Who fell mortally wounded on Hill 60 near Ypres, Tuesday, April 20th, 1915.
1st Ed., 80pp., portrait frontis., 6 plates, sketch map. Privately printed, nd (c.1916).
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Tom Edgar Grantley Norton was a trainee architect, educated at Uppingham and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was commissioned in 1914 and went to France in January 1915. He was killed in action at Hill 60 on 20th April 1915, aged thirty-one, and lies in Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery. Includes extracts from letters during his brief front line service, also details of the action in which he lost his life, together with a sketch map of the trenches at Hill 60, contributed by a brother officer. These are followed by several obituaries and a selection of his articles on architecture and other matters written for various journals. Plates include the memorial to him erected in Eglwysbach Church, Denbighshire: "...killed near Ypres... while gallantly holding the crest of Hill 60 against the Germans and was buried on the field of battle." Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front, VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.
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