Letters of a Headmaster Soldier. Harry Sackville Lawson. 

 Published in softback in 1919 with 143 pages and portrait frontis. Signed and dedicated by JK Lawson, wife of the subject. 19cm x 13cm. 

Wear to covers and light foxing to preliminary pages. See photos for more details of condition. A scarce survivor.

Memoir and letters of Harry Sackville Lawson, who was born in Somerset in 1876. He was educated at Haileybury, a Technical College at Folkestone and Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He became Headmaster of Buxton College, Derbyshire in 1911. He was gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery in December 1915 and after a period as a gunnery instructor became attached to a newly forming Siege Battery and served in France and Flanders from May 1917 until killed in action by a shell on 5th February 1918. He was forty-one and lies in Montescourt-Lizerolles Communal Cemetery. His letters contain an interesting account of his work and the life of the battery.