DE CANDOLE Alec Corry Vully Lieut

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DE CANDOLE Alec Corry Vully Lieut

2000-2024

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Surname: DE CANDOLE;

Forename(s): Alec Corry Vully;

Initials: ACV;

Rank: Lieut;

Born in: Cheltenham;

Previous Battalion: 4 of;

Previous Regiment: Wilts Regt;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 49 Bn;

How killed: KIA;

Where: France;

When killed: 03-Sep-1918;

Other Data: Marlborough School Register 1843-1933: son of the late Rev HLCV de Candole, Dean of Bristol. B 26/1/1897 at School 1911-1916. Exhib. Trinity Coll, Cambridge. Lt 4 Wilts R, att MGC, died of a bomb wound 3/9/18.

Poems
De Candole, Alec Price: US$ 55.97 [Convert Currency]
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Book Description: Cambridge: University Press, 1920. First Edition. 86pp. Photogravure portrait frontis of the author in uniform. 45 poems including 'On A Sonnet Of Rupert Brooke' etc etc. The author was born at Cheltenham on January 26, 1897. In April 1916 he left school for the army and after training at a cadet school in Oxford he received his commission in the 4th Wilts Regiment and proceeded to France in April 1917. After short leave in the following September he returned to France and was wounded on October 28, coming back to England in November. After some months on Salisbury Plain he was attached to the Machine-Gun Corps, and went to Grantham in April. In July he left again for France, where he was killed on the night of September 3, 1918. Endpapers browned. Original blue/green cloth-covered boards with gilt titling to spine. A few very minor and inoffensive marks, otherwise a good, tight copy. 205 x 143mm. Bookseller Inventory #000129

Bookseller: Richard Martin Books (Member PBFA) (Gosport, Hants, United Kingdom);

Other Notes: DE CANDOLE, Lieutenant, ALEC CORRY VULLY, 4th Bn. Wiltshire Regiment attd. 49th Machine Gun Corps. 3rd September 1918. Age 21. Son of H. L. C. V. and Helen Edith de Candole, of 6, Little Cloisters, Westminster, London. Native of Cheltenham. IV. A. 8. Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension - Pas De Calais, France.;

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