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Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED by Larry Worthington to title page, and by Major F.F. Worthington to frontispiece. Orig. tan cloth. 236 pp. Dust jacket sunned to spine, lightly edge worn, a few chips to spine ends and foot of rear cover.
WORTHY - A Biography of Major General F. F. Worthington by Larry Worthington - 1961
by Larry Worthington
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WORTHY - A Biography of Major General F. F. Worthington
by Larry Worthington
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Very Good Internally Hardcover. First Edition. Beige cloth. [pp 236 + frontispiece portrait. The General served in WWI and trained the 4th Canadian Armoured Division during WWII. Written by his wife. he incredible true story of Major-General Frederic Franklin Worthington, as written by his wife. More along the lines of "Swash-buckling Romance" than military biography, Worthington was destined to become a soldier of fortune at the age of 12 when he was orphaned in Mexico. He fought Nicaraguan Army in the war against San Salvador and Honduras, ran guns in Cuba sided with Francisco Madero's revolutionaries in the Mexican Civil War. At the outbreak of the First World War, he returned to England and joined the Black Watch. He later served with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps where he would earn an MM for his actions near Vimy Ridge. As a commander he was a proponent of mechanization, and organized the 1st Canadian Tank Brigade in 1940, serving until 1944 when he was relieved of his command and eventually forced into retirement
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Very Good Internally Hardcover. First Edition. Beige cloth. [pp 236 + frontispiece portrait. The General served in WWI and trained the 4th Canadian Armoured Division during WWII. Written by his wife. he incredible true story of Major-General Frederic Franklin Worthington, as written by his wife. More along the lines of "Swash-buckling Romance" than military biography, Worthington was destined to become a soldier of fortune at the age of 12 when he was orphaned in Mexico. He fought Nicaraguan Army in the war against San Salvador and Honduras, ran guns in Cuba sided with Francisco Madero's revolutionaries in the Mexican Civil War. At the outbreak of the First World War, he returned to England and joined the Black Watch. He later served with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps where he would earn an MM for his actions near Vimy Ridge. As a commander he was a proponent of mechanization, and organized the 1st Canadian Tank Brigade in 1940, serving until 1944 when he was relieved of his command and eventually forced into retirement
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- Edition First
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- Publisher The MacMillan Company of Canada
- Place of Publication Toronto, Canada
- Date Published 1961
- Keywords Biography, Military, Miltary, Biography, Canada, General Worthington
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'Worthy': A Biography of Major-General F.F. Worthington, C.B., M.C., M.M.
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