Author: HARRIS, SIMON.
Title: R.B.K. A Very Parfit Gentil Knight.
Description: Clenchwarton: Rooke Publishing, 2004. 095486400X. 1st edition. "Ralph Kite was an ordinary Edwardian schoolboy, who was sent home at an early age from Tasmania to be educated in England. During his tragically short life he rose to command a company of the 52nd Light Infantry on the Somme. Having won the Military Cross he as mortally wounded and spent an agonising month dying of his wounds. It is unusual to have a contemporary account of a soldier's time in hospital." Pp.xxiv/175, 9 black & white maps + 2 more to front and rear endpapers, inscribed by the author (the great-nephew of Capt.Ralph Kite) "For the Church of St Mary's Brettenham, Suffolk in memory of Cornwallis John Warner whose memorial plaque is in the church. Warner was lost in the first night attack of the Great War at Richebourgh L'Avoue on May 15th/16th 1915. He vanished early in the attack and his body was never found. Cornwallis John Warner was the second son of Sir Thomas Warner M.P of Brettenham Park. Warner's name appears briefly in these pages. He was a decent young man" to reverse of front free endpaper. Greeen cloth, dustwrrapper. VG/VG.

Keywords: Simon Harriss Signed Ralph Kite Very Parfit Gentil Knght Tasmania 52nd Light Infantary Somme Military Cross Sandhurst Trenches Richebourg L'Avoue Vermelles Givenchy Cuinchy Zoave Biography 49907 Military


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