[13th Battalion]. WHITE, Captain Thomas Alexander

The History of the Thirteenth Battalion, AIF. [The Fighting Thirteenth (cover title)]

Sydney, Tyrrells Ltd. 'for the 13th Battalion, A.I.F., Committee', 1924.

Quarto, 168 pages with 20 sketch maps or plans and 3 pages of plates.

Papered boards (with the battalion colour patch printed on the front cover) unevenly sunned and lightly worn at the corners; spine chipped, with a little loss (mainly at the head); endpapers offset; Red Cross Hospital Library labels on the front cover, and inkstamps to a few early pages; later 13th Battalion Association contact details in ballpoint pen on the front endpaper; a presentable copy (internally excellent).

The title page is worth quoting in full: 'The History of the Thirteenth Battalion, A.I.F. By Thomas A. White, (Captain, 13th Bn., A.I.F.) (Author of "Diggers Abroad.") To "The Gamest Old Man" Our Honoured and Beloved Colonel Granville John Burnage, C.B., V.D. Our First Commanding Officer and to The Memory of our Gallant Young Colonel The Late Douglas Gray Marks, D.S.O., M.C., (also Serbian Eagle), who after continuous Glorious War Service from the beginning to the end of the Great War, gave his life in an attempt to rescue a stranger from the undertow at Palm Beach on the 25th January, 1920, at the age of 24, the author respectfully dedicates this Story, knowing that, in doing so, he represents the wishes of all ranks of the "Fighting Thirteenth," who knew them. Two Originals'.

Dornbusch 341; Fielding and O'Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 215.

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