1918 SIGNED CAPTURED Canadian Prisoner of War WWI Book by Douglas Guy Rutter


SIGNED by AUTHOR
CAPTURED Sixteen Months as a Prisoner of War.
Lieutenant J. Harvey Douglas.
Published by George H Doran, New York, New York, U. S. A. (1918 ). Illustrated. 195 pgs.

Signed by Author Harvey Douglas to Guy Rutter ( a cartoon illustrator ) on the frontis verso.

Cover condition as shown. Binding good. Text and illustrations clean throughout. 




GUY WARWICK RUTTER enlisted in 1915. Canadian Expeditionary Force, A Lieutenant in the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles Regiment in France during the First World War, he served at Neuve Eglise, Ploegsteert, Wulverghem, Poperinghe, Ypres Salient and Mount Sorrel from November 1915 to June 1916. He was wounded in the right arm and leg at the Battle of Mount Sorrel (Sanctuary Wood) on June 2nd, 1916. After hospitalization he convalesed for approximately another year.

His obituary of January 21, 1952 states the following: "Mr. Rutter had the unique experience as a soldier in the First World War of reading his own obituary. Reported as having died from wounds received in the second battle of Ypres, June, 1916. Lieut. Guy Rutter was honored by his Toronto friends at a public funeral service held in St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Bloor St. E.  He returned home to read obituary notices published in the newspapers.  He served overseas with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles."

Lieutenant Rutter is mentioned in Bennett's regimental history of the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles: "On December 3rd, a patrol discovered a German working party on the Wulverghem-Messines Road beyond the low ground on the rather wide No-Man's Land on this sector. Lieutenant G.W. Rutter, a Sergeant, a Corporal and ten men of "C" Squadron volunteered. The raid was to take place behind the screen of an artillery bombardment but unfortunately this drew the enemy's fire in a counter-bombardment and put the opposing troops on the alert. Lieutenant Rutter scattered his party, took one man and crossed the marshy ground to the barrier, making a complete reconnaissance, although entirely exposed to the enemy by flares and rockets which lighted the whole ground." (Bennett, The 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles 1916-1919, pp. 11-12)

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