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The Letters of Major Henry Bentinck, Coldstream Guards.
1st Ed., vi+138pp., portrait frontis., 3 plates. Robert Scott.
1919
#69317
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Henry Duncan Bentinck was born in 1881, educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Commissioned in the Coldstream Guards in 1903 and served in Egypt and the Sudan 1903-1911 and 1913-1915 (with XII Sudanese). He joined the 2nd Coldstream in France in April 1915 and died on 2nd October 1916 of wounds received on the Somme on 15th September (when he was hit in the head by shrapnel and in the thigh by a machine gun bullet – his leg was amputated at No. 2 Red Cross Hospital at Rouen). He was thirty-five and is buried at St Sever Cemetery, Rouen. Contains a memoir and his letters including those from France April 1915-Sept. 1916. Of some interest for life in trenches, Guards characters, etc. Orig. red cloth, titled in black, VG.
£95
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