Lieutenant-Commander Robert Peverell Hichens D.S.O.,D.S.C.,R...

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Lieutenant-Commander Robert Peverell Hichens D.S.O.,D.S.C.,R.N.V.R. 'We Fought Them in Gunboats,' with a forward by Rear-Admiral Hugh Hext Rogers, M.V.Q, O.B.E, first edition, original cloth, loosening to front board, b+w frontis, Michael Joseph, London, 1944. Robert Hichens was a solicitor in Falmouth when war broke out. Three years later with the D.S.O. and Bar, D.S.C. and two Bars, Robert Hichens became the most decorated officer of the Royal Navy Voluntary Reserve, after 148 operations and 14 actions, he was killed by a chance shot in April 1943, scarce. Hiorns and Miller, Devonport (pub). 'War Services of the 1/5th Battalion the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919,' thin card wraps with front wrap separating slightly, being a narrative of events of the 1/5th Battalion D.C.L.I, 1914-1919, 31 pages. Major J. H. T. Cornish-Bowden. 'Notes on the History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry no.1 The Raising of the Regiment and the Meaning of its Name,' first edition, thin card wraps, fine, Hiorns and Miller, Devonport, 1913. Major J. H. T. Cornish-Bowden. 'Notes on the History of The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry no.2 Early War Services,' first edition first edition, thin card wraps, fine, Hiorns and Miller, Devonport, 1914. (4)