Second Hand Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant Richard Charles Graves-Sawle
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, 12 August–2 November 1914
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Condition
Good, provisionally. Some rubbing to the binding, particularly at the spine and edges. Age toning and scattered spotting to the leaves, more noticeable on some preliminary pages. Housed in a fitted case. Please examine the photographs.
Details
General - Language : English
Hardback - Edition : Family-prepared memorial typescript | Size : TBC
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A family-prepared memorial volume containing typescript extracts from the diary of Lieutenant Richard Charles Graves-Sawle of the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, dated from 12 August to 2 November 1914.
Attractively leather bound with gilt spine lettering, a Coldstream Guards device on the front board and gilt page edges, the volume is housed in a fitted case. It includes a portrait of Graves-Sawle, a photograph captioned “View South from Chavonne,” and a hand-drawn map of the area near Ypres marking a grave and the approximate place where he was killed.
The extracts cover the opening months of the British Expeditionary Force’s campaign. Graves-Sawle was killed in action near Ypres on 2 November 1914, aged 26—the final date covered by the diary. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate. A moving personal record of the 1914 campaign, preserved in a family memorial presentation.
