Thoughts
James Drummond Maclure
Bischof & Klein (1946)
In Collection
#1903
0*
Poet
KIA
Hardcover 
Product Details
Nationality British
Pub Place New Port
First Edition Yes
Personal Details
Read It Yes
User Defined
Conflict WW2
Notes
Cover blue, quarter bound in blue linen. Spine sunned. Cover soiled. A memorial, inscribed "With kind regards from Mr & Mrs H S Maclure July 1947." Photo as frontis. and one other. Three pages on the life of Jamie Maclure (Killed in Action 1943 Burma) followed by his poems. Pp46. "This little volume has been printed for private circulation among Jamie's many friends." A HYMN FOR THE R.A.F./AIRCRAFTSMAN/AND MUST I DIE?/CAROL 1941/LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. "One of our bombers crashed last night, Somewhere in Wales," he said. "They think it was due to an engine fault: If so, the blame's on my head: ..


"Thoughts", a collection of poems by James Drummond Maclure. Hardback, without dust cover, published for private circulation among the author's friends and printed by R.H. Johns Limited, Newport, Monmouthshire in 1946. The author fought with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Scots in Burma where he was killed during a Japanese attack on the night of 5th-6th April 1943. 46 pages, with two illustrations of the author