CRUM, Frederick Maurice.

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With Riflemen, Scouts, and Snipers, from 1914 to 1919. First edition, inscribed by the author on the free endpaper, "To Ronny Moulson, Best wishes, F.M. Crum, Perfect Attendance, April 1931". Ronald Moulson (1916-1995) was presumably one of the 22 boys who belonged to the Stirling Boys Club, which Crum founded.This work is Major Frederick Maurice Crum's account of his experience as a soldier in Belgium during the First World War. Crum (1872-1955) founded and ran both the 7th Stirling Boy Scouts and the Stirling Boys Club, the latter of which was intended to be an alternative for boys who were not members of either the Scouts or the Boys' Brigade. He includes in this work how the army utilized his Scouting troop and the letters he wrote to them while on the battlefield in Belgium.

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