The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Personal Accounts Stories About Groups or Individuals
RCC7159
The Love of an Unknown Soldier Found in a Dugout
ISBN
Purchase Price
£10.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
January 12, 2015
Publisher
John Lane, The Bodley Head (1918, London)
Notes
This is a very unusual book. Whoever was responsible for the book being published (there was no author as such) was given the manuscript by a young officer in the RFA, home from the front on leave. He had brought with him a bundle of papers which he had found secreted away in an abandoned gun position, which had obviously been shelled heavily. The papers told a story of a love affair with an American girl in Paris. The author of the story, who was presumed to have been a gunner officer who had been killed when the dugout had been destroyed, had written about what had happened. Apparently attempts were made to trace the lady involved, but sadly without success.
Purchase Price
£10.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
January 12, 2015
Publisher
John Lane, The Bodley Head (1918, London)
Notes
This is a very unusual book. Whoever was responsible for the book being published (there was no author as such) was given the manuscript by a young officer in the RFA, home from the front on leave. He had brought with him a bundle of papers which he had found secreted away in an abandoned gun position, which had obviously been shelled heavily. The papers told a story of a love affair with an American girl in Paris. The author of the story, who was presumed to have been a gunner officer who had been killed when the dugout had been destroyed, had written about what had happened. Apparently attempts were made to trace the lady involved, but sadly without success.