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[World War I] The British Legion Album in aid of Field-Marshal Earl Haig's appeal for ex-service men of all ranks compiled by E. Lonsdale Deighton AN IMPORTANT COMMEMORATION OF THE SACRIFICES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, COMPILED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE BRITISH LEGION, comprising c.527 inscriptions, signatures and other entries by a wide range of public figures, with notable contributors including: Royals: Queen Alexandra (autograph message signed); Edward, Prince of Wales; the Duke and Duchess of York; Priness Alice, Countess of Athlone (autograph message signed); Albert and Elizabeth, King and Queen of the Belgians; King Victor Emmanuel II and Queen Elena of Italy; King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain; and othersStatesmen: H.H. Asquith (autograph message signed); David Lloyd George (autograph message signed, "...What happened during the years 1914-18 has no precedent in history. Never in any generation have so many young men faced the torments of mutilation and the terror of death for their country's honour & for the redemption of mankind..."); Comte de Broqueville (identified in a note as having "signed the Belgian note refusing permission for German troops to pass through Belgium in invade France"); French Presidents Millerand, Poincaré and Clemenceau; Benito Mussolini; President Warren Harding; President William Howard Taft; Stanley Baldwin; W.L. Mackenzie-King, Prime Minister of Canada; S.M. Bruce Prime Minister of Australia; W.F. Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand; J.C. Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa; Andrew Bonar Law; Nancy Astor; Winston Churchill; and many othersMilitary figures: Field Marshall Earl Haig (autograph foreword, incorporating a quotation from Rupert Brooke, 'The Dead'); Marshal Joffre; Marshal Foch; General Pershing; Admiral Beatty; Air Marshal Sir Hugh M. Trenchard; Field Marshal Plomer; General the Earl of Cavan; Field Marshal Allenby; Field Marshal French; and many other commanders; also 23 winners of the Victoria CrossWriters, with autograph quotations signed: Robert Bridges (autograph fair-copy transcription of his poem 'Of the First BEF', 2 pages); Thomas Hardy (autograph quotation from 'Moments of Vision'); J.M. Barrie (autograph quotation); Rudyard Kipling (autograph quotation from 'The Wage-Slaves); Walter de la Mare (autograph transcription of his poem 'Nod'); Joseph Conrad (quotation from 'The Mirror of the Sea'); Edmund Gosse; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (quotation from 'A History of the War'); H. Rider Haggard; W.B. Yeats (transcription of 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'); Augusta, Lady Gregory; Arnold Bennett; John Buchan; Hilaire Belloc; John Galsworthy; John Drinkwater; George Moore (quotation from 'The Lake'); G.K. Chesterton; G. Bernard Shaw (poem commencing 'Justinian, in history's view'); Arthur Symons; A.E. Housman (autograph transcription of 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'); Jerome K. Jerome; Israel Zangwill; Sir Henry Newbolt (autograph transcription of his poem 'The Service'); Arthur Symons ('Japan'); A.A. Milne; Sir Arthur Pinero; Alfred Noyes; and othersArtists, with original signed artwork: Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton; Sir William Rothenstein (pencil portrait of Khudad Khan, the first Indian winner of a VC in World War I); Sir John Hassall; Sir William Orpen (pen and wash drawing of a soldier); Augustus John (gouache portrait of a woman); William Heath Robinson (full-page drawing); Christopher Nevinson (etching of a soldier carrying a wounded comrade); Solomon J. Solomon (pencil drawing of a female nude); H.M. Bateman (pen and ink self-portrait); D.Y. Cameron (watercolour landscape); Sir Frank Short (etching); John Collier (pen and ink drawing); William WyllieComposers and musicians, with autograph musical quotations signed: Madame Luisa Tetrazinni; Dame Nellie Melba (autograph musical quotation from La Bohème, signed); Sir Edward Elgar (autograph musical quotation from 'The Dream of Gerontius'); Sir Henry Wood; Gustav Holst (autograph musical quotation from 'I