Lot 6 , First World War Poetry and Prose: Tennant, Edward Wyndham - Worple Flint and Other Poems, 8vo,

First World War Poetry and Prose: Tennant, Edward Wyndham - Worple Flint and Other Poems, 8vo, paper wraps, Oxford 1916, Songs, Plays and Ballads, 8vo, half cloth, Chiswick Press, London 1909, Nettleingham, F.T. - Tommy's Tunes, 8vo, cloth, ex.War Museums library with stamps, and 27 others (30)
Estimate £70-100

Edward Wyndham Tennant was known to his friends and family by the nickname 'Bim', Edward was educated at West Downs School, Winchester where he excelled at cricket, wrote poetry and edited the school magazine. He went on to Winchester College and was to have worked in the Diplomatic Service but joined the 4th Battalion of the Grenadier Guards when war broke out. He was posted to the Western Front. A week after the loss of his friend Raymond Asquith, who was in the 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, Edward was killed by a German sniper on 22nd September 1916.


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