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A.A.D. [i.e. Bt. Lt.-Col. Arthur Abercromby Duff, CIE, MVO, Gordon Highlanders &c.]
My Escape.
By A.A.D. 1st Ed., [iii]+29pp. Aberdeen: Privately printed by William Smith & Sons, The Bon-Accord Press.
1919
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Commences: "On the 26th August, 1914, late in the evening, about half-past six, I got wounded in Le Cateau-Cambrai battle." The author then relates being succoured by French peasants in a cottage, where he was hidden from enquiring Germans in the attic; he then spent a month in a French hospital at Caudry which, due to an outbreak of scarlet fever, the Germans avoided. Eventually they came, & escaping through a window, he evaded capture & again lived among the populace, avoiding detection even when German soldiers were also billeted with his temporary hosts. Eventually made his way to the British Consulate in Flushing & thence by boat to Folkestone (carrying the Consul's despatches & little else but a toothbrush). Arthur Abercromby Duff (later Scott-Duff) was a career colonial administrator who held many distinguished positions before WW1, & participated in operations in Somaliland 1903-04. His work in India as Military Sec. to the Governor of Madras was rewarded by the CIE in 1912. He was also an officer of the 3rd (SR) Bn. Gordon Highlanders & was attached to the 1st Bn. in 1914 when wounded. He was later 2ic (& sometimes acting CO) of 6th Bn. Gordon Highlanders on the Western Front. One copy on Library Hub (formerly COPAC, at National Library of Scotland). Orig. blue morocco, blocked "A.A.D." in gilt obliquely across top left corner of front & inscribed: "With best wishes for Xmas & 1920 from Arthur A. Duff." Little chipped & rubbed, generally VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
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