[53rd Battalion]. KENNEDY, John Joseph

The Whale Oil Guards

Dublin, James Duffy and Co. Limited, 1919.

Small octavo, 144 (last blank), 16 (publisher's catalogue, dated February 1919) pages.

Gilt-decorated quarter contrasting cloth (green and black, the battalion's colours); covers mottled and a little rubbed and sunned; flyleaves offset; overall, a very good copy.

The history of the 53rd Battalion AIF, by its (Roman Catholic) chaplain, Father John Joseph Kennedy DSO CF. The names and ranks of a dozen related servicemen are written in ballpoint pen on the rear endpaper (apparently aides-de-memoire).

Dornbusch 318; Fielding and O'Neill, page 230; Trigellis-Smith 251.

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