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Lot 875
*Army Cyclist Corps. A handwritten letter from Lance-Corporal A.G. Coaling, From the Line, Monday, 17 August 1915, written in pencil and addressed to Sam, thanking him for the letter and papers, 'We are not allowed to say much about the war in our letters in case they get into spy's hands. We are having a gruelling time being well above our knees in mud and water in the trenches for 8 hrs at a stretch The sights we see would be enough to turn anyone's heart up. Dead bodies all over the place. When digging in the trenches it is nothing to chop a dead body in half. We come across legs, arms, heads and all manner of things buried We have been moved up and down the line being used mostly as an auxiliary Division. The Germans seem to be pushing the Russians back I expect they will be trying it on us next. The Scotch are making a name for themselves out here. The Germans are terrified when they see the Scotch advancing As I am writing this letter shells are coming over to within 100 yards of where I am sitting. I had a near shave yesterday. A shell burst a few yards away from me killing and wounding 2 men. Two or three minutes after another shell made a terrible mess of a poor chap. And the cyclists have had a very hard time although they have not been able to do their proper work since the retreat of Mons. We have been doing infantry work, engineering, sapping, Intelligence Corps work and artillery work and it is as the General of the Division said, 1 cyclist is equal to 10 infantrymen. The infantry have had a very gruelling time though', 2 pp. on ruled paper, brown stain to upper and right margins not affecting legibility, 4to, together with a real photo postcard of Coaling in uniform with his bicycle, signed in pencil to verso, somewhat creased, spotted and slightly soiled (2)
Lot 81
An Edwardian silver travelling shaving brush in cylindrical case, London 1902, to/w a Samson Mordan & Co. bullet-shaped propelling pencil fob, a scale-pattern stemmed dish, Mappin & Webb, Jubilee marked Sheffield 1935, a miniature Armada dish, London 1979 and a 'Scotch' decanter label London 1989 (5)
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