Item #129490 The Spirit of the Forty-Second. Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918. 42nd Battalion, Vivian BRAHMS.
The Spirit of the Forty-Second. Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918
The Spirit of the Forty-Second. Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918
The Spirit of the Forty-Second. Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918
The Spirit of the Forty-Second. Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918
The Spirit of the Forty-Second. Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918
The Spirit of the Forty-Second. Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918

The Spirit of the Forty-Second. Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918

Brisbane, 42nd Battalion AIF Association, 1938.

Octavo, 186, [6] (blanks headed 'Memories Revived') pages with the battalion's patch printed in colour on the battle honours pages, plus 12 pages of plates.

Navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover (along with the battalion's badge); trifling signs of age, but essentially a fine copy with the very scarce dustwrapper slightly creased, and a little sunned and chipped on the spine.

Provenance: Miss Adela Dibdin, with the front flyleaf inscribed and signed to her 'from "one amongst those present", A.C. Dibdin, Xmas 1938'. Lieutenant Arthur Coleman Dibdin saw action on the Western Front. His elder brother, Major Edward John Dibdin DSO, was one of the battalion's Seconds in Command. Both are identified in ink on the plate opposite page 137, which shows the battalion's officers at Locre in February 1918.

Dornbusch 300; Fielding and O'Neill, page 229; Trigellis-Smith 240.

Item #129490

Price (AUD): $2,500.00

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