A Year for France War Letters of Houston Woodward
New Haven: Yale Publishing Association, 1919. Octavo, original attractive decorated blue cloth; iii, 196 pp., frontispiece, nine plates, and appendix. Cloth slightly rubbed, touch of preliminary foxing yet a near-fine copy with the previous owner's inscription on flyleaf. Henry Howard Houston Woodward was born in Philadelphia on February 27th, 1896. After spending half a year at Yale, he resigned and entered the American Ambulance Field Service. He sailed for France on February 19th, 1917 and became an aviator in the French army. Woodward went missing in action on April 1st, 1918 near Montdidier (Somme, France).
This family memorial is divided in four sections. The first comprises a collection of letters written by some of Houston Woodward's friends. The second is Houston's correspondence with his family during his school and college years. The third section is composed of letters written as Woodward was serving in France during the Great War; while the last section is a report of Commandant of Spad 94. Not in Myron Smith; Noffsinger (revised edition) 3049. Item #2819
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