[ Major General Douglas Wimberley. ] Signed Duplicated typed volume: '"Scottish Soldier." by Douglas Wimberley. (a private account for my wife and family). Volume VII Final Miscellany Volume.' [including '"Montgomery", a personal Memoir']

Author: 
Douglas Wimberley [ Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley (1896-1983), commander of the 51st (Highland) Division at the Second Battle of El Alamein in the Second World War ]
Publication details: 
Foreword dated from 'Foxhall, Coupar Angus. [ Scotland ] 1981.'
£750.00
SKU: 17336

[5] + 145pp., 8vo. On the rectos only of 149 leaves, perfect bound into buff card covers, with white typed label on front, reading 'SCOTTISH SOLDIER VOL. VII | BY DOUGLAS WIMBERLEY.' In ten sections, lettered A to J, three of them signed 'D W' in red ink (pp.55, 78, 128), with index of names and appendix. Title-page in autograph, otherwise a duplicated typescript, but with autograph notes to pp.21, 46 (subsequently inserted), 61, 62, 63, 75. Sections include '"Montgomery", a personal Memoir', 'Broadcast on the B.B.C. Television 1980 on the subject of the kilt in Highland Regiments | (a) Informatory article given to B.B.C. by D.W. | (b) Letters sent to D.W. regarding broadcast.', 'Memories of childhood in Inverness at beginning of 20th Century', 'Army Annual Confidential Reports on D.W.', 'My time as an Academic in Dundee', 'Article on HD in the 8th Army, written by D.W. 1981', 'Difference between English and Scottish soldiers', 'Comments by readers of my Volumes of "Scottish Soldier"', 'Domestic Help during lifetime of D.W.', 'Finis - remarks on all volumes by D.W.' All the volumes in this series are excessively scarce. None whatsoever have been traced at the National Library of Scotland, OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.