Item #129524 War Book of the Third Pioneer Battalion. 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Major Maurice Barber Bevan KEATINGE.
War Book of the Third Pioneer Battalion
War Book of the Third Pioneer Battalion
War Book of the Third Pioneer Battalion
War Book of the Third Pioneer Battalion

War Book of the Third Pioneer Battalion

Melbourne, Specialty Press, 1922.

Octavo, 192 pages with 3 maps plus 10 plates.

Purple cloth with the battalion colour patch (an oval white border - now a little rubbed with some loss of colour - around a purple centre) printed on the front panel; cloth heavily flecked, moderately stained, and a little bumped and worn about the corners and spine; edges and endpapers marked and foxed; light tidemark to the top inside corner of the first ten leaves, and to the top margin of the leaves in the second half of the book; overall, a decent copy.

Ownership signatures of M.H. Farrell (12 July 1929) and J.M. Farrell (written at a later date) appear on the front flyleaf. the honour roll includes 2301 Private J.M. Farrell, killed in action in Belgium on 15 October 1917. His service records suggest the signatures are those of his mother and father.

Dornbusch 317; Fielding and O'Neill, page 234; Trigellis-Smith 302.

Item #129524

Price (AUD): $500.00