[48th Battalion]. DEVINE, William

The Story of a Battalion

[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1980s (facsimile edition)]/ 1919.

Octavo, [xii], 180 pages plus 12 captioned plates and 4 maps (all by Daryl Lindsay, an official war artist).

Red synthetic cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; edges slightly foxed, with the top one lightly scored; an excellent copy.

The limitation is not stated, but the Burridge editions were typically limited to between 200 and 300 copies. The author was a Catholic priest attached to the 48th Battalion as chaplain; he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre.

See Trigellis-Smith 246 (giving '1980s' as the date of this facsimile edition).

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