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Memoirs of an Anzac : A First-Hand Account by an AIF Officer in the First World War
Barrie, John Charles [introduced & annotated by Ross McMullin]
Published by Scribe London 2015, 2015
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaAndrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne
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Add to basket1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo 286pp., b/w plates, index, John Charles Barrie joined the Australian army in 1909. Five years later, he was on his way to Egypt as an officer with the AIF. Book gives first-hand accounts of Barrie's wounding at Gallipoli on that fateful first Anzac Day, his recuperation in England. It chronicles his escape from rehab so that he could return to the war in France, and his fighting for days on end, waist-deep in mud in the trenches.…