The Irish Guards In The Great War: Edited and Compiled from Their Diaries and Papers - Volume I: The First Battalion; Volume II: The Second Battalion and Appendices (1923) By Rudyard Kipling
 
A regimental history and official account of the Irish Guards in the First World War, written by Rudyard Kipling in honour of his son, John, who served in the Irish Guards and was killed in his first action at the battle of Loos.
 
There is an inscription and pencil writing in the text from MRS. ASHLEY CARUS-WILSON NEE MARY L. G. PETRIE, B. A. who lived at Hanover Lodge, Kensington Park, London.
 
Mary L. G. Carus-Wilson (née Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie; after marriage, Mrs. Ashley Carus-Wilson, or Mary Carus-Wilson, or Mrs. C. (Charles) Ashley Wilson; pen names, C. Ashley Carus-Wilson and Helen Macdowall; 1861 – November 19, 1935), was an English author and speaker known for her work on biblical study and missionary work. Her father was Martin Petrie. She wrote a biography about her sister, Irene Petrie, a missionary to Kashmir. The Pitts Theology Library at Emory University has a collection of her papers. Eleanora Carus-Wilson was her daughter. She was also published using the name Helen Macdowall in the Sunday at Home and lectured on women's suffrage. In England, she established a correspondence program for the secular study of scripture.
 
She married Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson, a professor in Montreal, Canada, in 1892, and they had three children. After her marriage, she published under the name C. Ashley Carus-Wilson except in The Sunday at Home where she went by Helen Macdowall, her mother's family name. Her children were named Louis, Martin, and Eleanora (Eleanora Carus-Wilson). She died November 19, 1935, leaving to her two surviving children the home in Kensington that she inherited from her father.
 
Hard Cover
654 pages
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