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marbled end pages, blank endpage front & rear, tipped in photograph of Joan in a RAF uniform + loose protective blue tissue paper + To Joan (only printed on page) + Title page + 182 pages+ 10 pages on no-mans land + small newspaper cut out of Walter Lockwood who has just died and his life + duplicate 1st page (both loose at front) . Binding of grey leather hard back binding in very good condition, spine with a faded gilt title First World War Memories. Contents fine. Known as Sidney Lockwood & Walter Lockwood, title page states S.W.D. Lockwood. It is believed only 2 copies made, the other is in the Imperial War Museum, and believed to be unpublished. The Museum call him Walter Sidney Douglas Lockwood and they also have various other personal documents from him. This starts with a genuine photograph tipped in, looks like a 1970/80 s copy of an WWII original. Title page is undated, with an ink signed & dedicated to Barbara ? and signed S.W.D. Lockwood the author. The book is all typed single sided pages, From 1st page is states He started to record them from 1977 (63 years after his war started) and was not sure if he would live long enough to complete it. His war started on the East Anglia coast and then France, but possibly the most important is his first hand and detailed memories of his time as one of the very few who secretly went over the top in pairs during the night and very rarely the day mainly finding out where the Germans were and what they were doing, and wounded soldiers and remarkable lived out the war. It took about 2 years to do with a 1985 2 page postscript., He was wounded, mentioned in despatches, awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre, He goes into great detail about going over the top into no-mans land DURING DAYLIGHT, being shot and being unconscious, when he came too, he was too weak to get his revolver out to end his life, and lying there wondered how long before he died or was bayoneted by the Germans on their next attack. But was amazingly discovered by his batman who came crawling alone looking for him, found him, returned to get a stretcher party to follow him as soon as it got dark. Also on no-mans land near rear, he mentions going at night with Bob Boyce and on seeing a German, shoots him in the stomach, but he did not fall, but came forward and aimed his rifle, but before he could shoot, Bob Boyce charged him and bayoneted him from the side, and then they discovered he had some sort of breast plate (home made iron?) that the bullet had only slightly dented, and had never heard of Germans wearing breast plates, but mentions he knew of some British officers wearing "protection" (most likely home made or privatly purchased ) and this is just 2 of his memories. He was born 1895 here in Thetford, Norfolk and died aged 94 in Dumfries (1989?), he was apprenticed at the local Burrels steam engine works, but when WWI started left to join up and fight. After the war in 1921 he joined Armstrong Whitworth where he rose to Managing Director, helping building planes for the WWII, appointed OBE & CBE. the Imperial War Museum, describe their copy as; Edited transcript (184pp) of tape recorded reminiscences compiled in the 1970s and covering, rather disjointedly, his service (principally as a CSM), during the First World War with the 1/6th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment, on coastal defence duties in East Anglia (1914 - May 1916) and with the Gloucestershire Regiment on the Western Front (1916 - 1918), initially with the 2/6th Battalion (183rd Infantry Brigade, 61st Division) from June 1916 - January 1918 and later with the 61st Division Entrenching Battalion (February - April 1918) and the 2/5th Battalion Gloucesters (184th Infantry Brigade, 61st Division) from April - August 1918 until he was severely wounded, hospitalised and evacuated to the UK; there are passing references to the costly attack at Fromelles (19 July 1916), the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line (March 1917), Third Ypres and Cambra. Seller Inventory # 002767
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