'With The Twenty-Second'. A History of the Twenty-Second Battalion, AIF, with an Introduction by General Sir W.R. Birdwood
Melbourne, H.H. Champion, Australasian Authors' Agency, 1919.
Quarto, 132 pages with a frontispiece (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); spine a little sunned and marked; front cover foxed and marked; corners lightly worn; endpapers offset; trifling signs of use; a very good copy (internally excellent).
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'. The book is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion AIF, and the author of that battalion's history. Dornbusch 313; Fielding and O'Neill, pages 34 and 227; Trigellis-Smith 223.
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