The War Service Record of the First Australian Field Artillery Brigade, 1914-1919
[Adelaide, W.K. Thomas and Co., Printers, 1919].
Octavo, 247 pages with 2 full-page illustrations plus a frontispiece, a small folding plate (with before-and-after aerial views), and 4 folding maps.
Tan stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little flecked, with minor loss to the head of the spine, slight loss to the foot, and light wear to the corners; front flyleaf laid down on the pastedown (with ownership details - see below - still legible in reverse); two small pieces of clear tape on the pastedowns; textblock reinserted in the binding, with minor blemishes to the inner hinges, and the frontispiece and title leaf a little out of alignment; one leaf (pages 15/16, listing those killed in action) chipped and creased on all margins (possibly detached at some stage); minor signs of age and use; overall, a decent copy.
The ink ownership details of a member of the brigade, 32988 Gunner Charles Francis John Davidson, are written on the original flyleaf (see page 96 for his details in the nominal roll: 'Joined - 11/9/17 | Wounded - 2/11/17 (Ypres) | Transferred to Corps Educational School - 7/1/19'). An unusual approach has been adopted for this history: apart from a few preliminaries, a chronology of movements of the Brigade (10 pages), the Roll of Honour, and list of Honours and Awards (totally 16 pages), the bulk of the book is devoted to biographical information about every member of the unit (217 pages). The book's imminent publication was advertised in the 'Sydney Morning Herald', 17 September 1919. Dornbusch 308; Fielding and O'Neill, page 223; Trigellis-Smith 305.
Item #129513
Price (AUD):
$800.00