Recollections of Soldiering, Sport, etc.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece and fourteen other plates, one of them double-page, numerous line-drawn illustrations to the text. Some browning, otherwise very good in the original blue pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed, spine a little faded. xx, 364pp. London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1915.
Riddick 272.
“Perhaps the only redeeming point about these “Memories” is that they are largely extracted from diaries and letters which were not written with the idea of anyone ever seeing them except my mother. To some extent they tell directly against me, since they show me to have been just the ordinary silly young ass who enjoyed senseless ragging, was fond of dogs and horses, and thought very little as he went through the ordinary every-day experiences of a subaltern in India.” [From the author’s Foreword].
