DRURY (William Price, 1861-1949, R.M., Lt.-Col.)

Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond, saying "How charming of you to remember me again at Xmas!", enclosing "a copy of a Hymn of mine, which is being sung a good deal throughout the country", and sending "the best of luck in 1939", with the printed hymn 'For those who guard us in the air', signed and marked by Drury "Tune 'St. Chrysostom': Sir J. Barnby", together 2 sides 8vo, Killigrew Cottage, Saltash, Cornwall, 14th December

Drury served in China and the Mediterranean. Among his books are 'Memoirs of a Marine', 1926, 'The Fight in China', 1929, and 'Fighting Cocks', 1939.

Item Date:  1940

Stock No:  17067      £45

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