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First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Red cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Prev owners name to ffep John H Anderson see provenance Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Clean cloth. Toned intact endpapers with strong hinges. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages xiv, 259. Size: 8vo 22cm by 14cm. PROVENANCE: John Anderson 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulances (Lieutenant Colonel John Hubback Anderson) Nigel James Moffat Anderson Hamptworth Estate, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Lieutenant Colonel John Hubback Anderson (1883-1950). Doctor, son of Dr J. F. Anderson from Malva Woodend , Victoria Australia. Enlisted on 7th October 1914 (at the age of 31) in the Australian Imperial Force as a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corp with the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance. Embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A51 Chilka on 2 Feb 1915. He returned to Australia, 15 Nov 1919 on conclusion of the war. His honours include, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal. Married Ruby Clara Moffat on 14th April 1919 and had a son Nigel James Moffat Anderson. 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulances. Originally recruited at Melbourne in October 1914 to form part of the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance. Military Order 575 of 1914 created the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, and the unit became the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance. During the Middle East Campaign from 1916 to 1918, the unit as part of the Australian Light Horse evolved to meet the challenges. The first division that was formed containing the Australian Light Horse (and field Ambulance) was the Anzac Mounted Division created in April 1916 it was anticipated that the mounted formations would embark for service in France until the General Officer Commanding the Egyptian forces, General Murray interceded to keep them in Egypt. Campaigns: Egypt: Defence of Egypt, Sinai: Romani, Magdhaba, Rafah, Palestine: First Battle of Gaza, Second Battle of Gaza, Third Battle of Gaza, Beersheba, Jerusalem, Jericho, Es Salt, Megiddo, Amman. Ruby Clara Moffatt. Daughter of Harold Charles Moffat and grand daughter of George Moffat and Lucy Morrison of the Moffat and Morrison business dynasties. Nigel James Moffatt Anderson (1920-2008). Born 1920 in Melbourne, educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford. In 1939, he joined the 4th (Territorial Army) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Took part in the Norwegian Campaign of April to June 1940, and won one of the earliest Military Crosses of the war. He was seriously wounded in 1941. After the war became a schoolmaster at Radley College. In 1952 he inherited the Hamptworth estate from a cousin. Elected to Wiltshire County Council in 1953. In 1974 he was Gazetted a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire and in 1991 appointed the 999th High Sheriff of Wiltshire. From 1981 to 1985 he chaired the committee of the Wiltshire Victoria County History, was also chairman of the Wiltshire Scouts Association and president of the Wiltshire Youth Orchestra. Nigel Anderson met his wife Daphne [nee Siggins] while serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland and they had one son, Donald Anderson, who succeeded to the estate. Hamptworth Estate (1579 - 2018). Between 1579 -1869 the estate passed between from Gifford, Stockman, Chaplin, Duncombe, Shafto families. Thereafter, it passed to; 1870 - George Morrison, 1884 - Barbara Morrison (wife of George), 1907 - H.C. Moffatt (nephew of George), 1945 - H.C. Cumberbatch (nephew of H.C. Moffatt), 1957 - N.J.M. Anderson (Grandson of H.C. Moffatt), 2012 - Donald Anderson. Seller Inventory # 9325
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