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Aldington is the first of the sixteen poets listed alphabetically. The inscription around the names is in red lettering and is a quotation from Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). The memorial stone was cut by Harry Meadows, whose designs for this monument are…

This is one of the 50 copies with hand-colored illustrations, the second most limited format. The illustration is of a battlefield with grave markers, a flooded shell-hole and a stripped tree, and illustrates the poem Proem. Nash’s original pen and…

Images of War was illustrated with woodcuts by Paul Nash, who had been an official war artist during WWI. Nash also designed the cover paper, which depicts an artillery barrage and is signed in the lower right-hand corner. Like many of the press’s…

Illustration from Richard Aldington: An Intimate Portrait by Alister Kershaw and F.-J. Temple, Southern Illinois University Press, 1966. Photograph of Aldington in uniform as an officer In the Royal Sussex Regiment. H.D. saw him as “a great…

Bracelet worn by officers to facilitate Identification in case of severe wounds or death. Inscribed on the face, “2nd. Lt. R. Aldington/ C [Church] of E[England]/Royal Sussex Rgmt”. Aldington was commissioned into the regiment in April 1918. In 1925,…

Limited to 50 copies on Tuscany hand-made paper, and printed on a hand-press by the Rev. Charles Clinch Bubb (1876 -1936). The Clerk’s Press published five volumes by Aldington. In a letter to Bubb, Aldington refers to the poems in this volume as…

In 1916, in the face of imminent conscription, Aldington enlisted in the Devonshire Regiment and was sent to France at the end of the year. He was soon transferred to a Pioneer battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment, before being made a runner.…