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Lot 526
GAMP "Artist at her easel, summertime", oil on board, signed bottom left, AFTER GAY CORRAN "Still life study of flowers", limited edition colour print no`. 217/400, signed in pencil, AFTER DOROTHY LLOYD GRIFFITHS "Master Park, Oxford", limited edition colour print no`d. 88/500, signed and titled in pencil and LATE 20th CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "College archway, Cambridge", limited edition colour print no`d. 18/500, indistinctly signed lower right
Lot 289
WWI the war diary of DM2/163094 Pte Jack Miller Army Service Corps covering most of the year 1918 with considerable entries containing his personal observations of the fighting casualties and events which he saw around him written in a legible hand and covering virtually every day from January 2nd through to October 25th. Together with a loosely inserted photograph showing a group of soldiers around an armoured car with an indication that one of them was Miller himself and indication to verso that it was taken in Egypt in 1917. The diary commences in Jaffa but later Miller is sent to Gallipoli but throughout he documents a considerable amount of important information including air raids and air combat. Later he documents a later surprise attack by the Turks ‘...but the Judeans gave them an awful drubbing and they fled leaving half of their number dead or wounded. We captured 200 of them...’ During April he documents a visit by Lord Rothschild’...all the Yidd boys here have signed to fight for us they are going to join the Jewish regiment when it gets here...’ But later in the month he writes: ‘...we had a great battle today and we have lost a lot of men...we had 1200 losses today and some of the cases have been awful. It reminded me of Gaza. The battle is still going on and we have had to retreat 3 miles. The 58 Indian rifles let us down very bad and they got the Devons cut up very badly there are 2 German Divisions here from the Russian front if it was not for them we should have been well advancing they have a lot of new guns here...’ Later in June he documents on a day by day basis the awful conditions of the trenches and the continual fighting in what becomes a war of attrition. Miller survived the war and died aged 88 in 1978. In civilian life he became a well known boxer boxing promoter and later a corner man for Sir Henry Cooper and many more well known British boxers. He was the longest and oldest serving corner man in boxing and had a boxing club in Birmingham.
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