Clark, Major Frank A. O. THROUGH HELL TO IMMORTALITY - A Story of the Crimean War and of the First Suffolk Soldier to win The Victoria Cross [Arthur Ablett] , Privately published, Leiston, Suffolk, ND,paperback, vi, 122pp, pictorial title, many half tone and line ills. and maps in text, non-standard about 8 x 6 inches white card wrappers with pictorial decoration and lettered in black, an account of aspects of the war in the Crimea and of the life of Alfred Ablett, born at Weybread, Suffolk in 1830, who joined the Gremadier Guards and won the Victoria Cross there at the siege of Sebastopol when he seized an enemy shell with its fuse still burning and threw it out of the trench where it had landed, subsequently serving with the London Docks Police at Poplar where he and died in 1897, being buried at Weybread, lightly rubbed at tips, slight marks at binding (possibly glue staining through wrappers), very good, (Book ref. 41171) £32.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, A Book for all Reasons , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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