As I Recall, An Autobiography

An unpublished memoir by R E Clilverd, MC, including the Great War (Salonika and the Western Front) and the Summer Olympics, 1912

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Assumed only edition. Hardback, bound in full leather with five raised bands and contrasting title label to spine, gilt titling to upper board. 30 × 21.5cm, 174pp (printed recto only)

This is the unpublished memoirs of Ralph Egerton Clilverd (1887–1970) M.C., Croix de Guerre avec Palme, late Major, B/ 98 Royal Field Artillery, late Major, O.C. Gerrard's Cross and Chalfont St Peter Company 5th Bucks Battalion, Home Guard (1940–1944).

R E Clilverd was born in London in 1887, he joined the Honorable Artillery Company in 1909 (as a Territorial) and entered service with the Midland Bank. At age 24 he was a British modern pentathlete and competed at swimming at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and became a member of the Cygnus Swimming Club. During the Great War he served with the Royal Field Artillery in Salonika, and then on the Western Front where he was awarded the Military Cross, and Croix de Guerre. He rejoined the bank after the war becoming Midland Bank in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. and commanded the local Home Guard during the Second World War. This book covers his whole life.

This memoir was completed in late 1968 (according to the last pages of text), printed and bound up, perhaps the only copy, or one of a small number for family but there are no details to suggest there was any more than one. Illustrated with a few tipped in copies of photographs.

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This copy is in very good condition.

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