'With The Twenty-Second'. A History of the Twenty-Second Battalion, A.I.F. With an Introduction by General Sir W.R. Birdwood

[22nd Battalion]. GORMAN, Captain Eugene

Published by H.H. Champion, Australasian Authors' Agency, Melbourne, 1919

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Melbourne, H.H. Champion, Australasian Authors' Agency, 1919. Quarto, 132 pages with a frontispiece illustration (by Lieutenant Will Dyson) plus 34 full-page plates. Quarter cloth (with paper title-labels on the spine) and papered boards (printed with the battalion's colour patch); covers marked and a little stained, with slight surface loss to the front panel and some wear to the corners; endpapers offset; a decent copy (internally in fine condition). The author served with the battalion, and was awarded the MC. In his preface he records that 'Most of the book was written on the Somme at irregular intervals, in dugouts or ruined villages, or beneath that well-known tarpaulin which, in the forward area, served as Quartermaster's Store. The concluding chapters were written in Belgium'. Dornbusch 313; Fielding and O'Neill, pages 34 and 227; Trigellis-Smith 223. Seller Inventory # 129519

Bibliographic Details

Title: 'With The Twenty-Second'. A History of the ...

Publisher: H.H. Champion, Australasian Authors' Agency, Melbourne

Publication Date: 1919

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition.