STURGES, Robert Simon Mansfield.

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On the remainder of our front --. First edition, presentation copy, presumably prepared by the author's battalion commander, Colonel Walter Gordon Wolrige-Gordon (1861-1938), to be given to close family and friends, with an original photographic portrait of him mounted as a frontispiece. Posted to France in November 1915, the author served with the Royal Fusiliers at Festubert and Cambrin, before gaining a commission in the Machine Gun Corps and returning home in February 1916.Educated at Radley and Christ Church, Oxford, Sturges (1893-1971) joined the 19th (Public Schools) Battalion Royal Fusiliers as a private. His is a no-nonsense but colourful first-hand account, largely based on letters home. He was later Political Secretary at the British High Commission in Baghdad. Harrison & Son, the printer-publisher, generally worked for the War Office, and were not known for general publishing, so it is quite likely that this scarce work was printed for the author.Sturges's commanding officer, W. G. Wolrige-Gordon (1861-1938), previously of the Black Watch, had a distinguished military career. Wounded at El-Teb during the Sudan campaign (1884), he saw service on the Nile Expedition (1884-5), Matabeleland (1893-4), and the Boer War. During the First World War he was five times mentioned in despatches. The original photograph of him mounted as frontispiece is the same image that appears in The History of the Royal Fusiliers "U.P.S." (1917). This is affixed to card, with a printed cap

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