| 'ON ACTIVE SERVICE' - Letters of
Geoffrey Blemell Pollard - A
rare series of printed letters of a gunner involved in the
earliest actions of the war. Pollard's Brigade was sent to
France in August 1914 and by the 23rd they were in action south
west of Mons.
They then took part in fierce
battle against three German batteries during which Captain
Francis Grenfell of the 9th Lancers was awarded the first V.C.
of the War for his part in saving the guns of the 199th.
After action at Le Cateau they
retreated to the south of Paris and remained there during the
battle of the Aisne. In October 1914 they were moved to Bethune
and it was here that Geoffrey was killed by a shell while
observing the fire of his own Battery from the front line
trench.
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