Stalky’s Adventures.

DUNSTERVILLE, Major-General L. C.

$200.00

Item Number: 122198

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928.

First edition of this autobiography by Major-General Dunsterville. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville was a British Army officer, who led Dunsterforce across present-day Iraq and Iran towards the Caucasus and Baku during the First World War. He went to school with Rudyard Kipling and George Charles Beresford at The United Services College, a public school later absorbed into Haileybury and Imperial Service College, which prepared British young men for careers in Her Majesty's Army. He served as the inspiration for the character "Stalky" in Kipling's collection of school stories Stalky & Co. He was also uncle to H.D. Harvey-Kelly, the first Royal Flying Corps pilot to land in France in during the First World War.