Booklet: Sir John French’s Despatches.
With the British Commander-in-Chief’s official report of, ‘The Great Battle of Mons, the Marne and the Aisne’, in 1914.
With illustrations.
From papers collected by Capt Eric Richard Hanby Holmes, 1913-1941.
Hanby Holmes served with the Artist’s Rifles and 6th Bn The Durham Light Infantry.
By the end of the war Hanby Holmes was attached to the Royal Engineers for Army Signal Service.
Papers were collected primarily while serving on the Salonika Front during World War One (1914-1918).