Item #129534 National Bank of Australasia Limited. Record of War Service of Bank and Staff, 1914-1919. National Bank of Australasia Limited.
National Bank of Australasia Limited. Record of War Service of Bank and Staff, 1914-1919
National Bank of Australasia Limited. Record of War Service of Bank and Staff, 1914-1919
National Bank of Australasia Limited. Record of War Service of Bank and Staff, 1914-1919

National Bank of Australasia Limited. Record of War Service of Bank and Staff, 1914-1919

Melbourne, Osboldstone and Company, 1921.

Large quarto, 164 pages plus an unnumbered leaf tipped in at page 15 (regarding the then-recent unveiling of the Honor Board on 14 June 1921). Apart from the first 18 pages of preliminaries (which include 5 full-page plates in any event), and the last page (a list of 11 men for whom portrait photographs could not be found), the balance of the book contains illustrations: there are 18 full-page war views, and 127 pages of portrait photographs of the approximately 500 men who enlisted.

Gilt-pictorial brown cloth on thick bevel-edged boards; cloth a little scuffed and mottled; edges and flyleaves very slightly foxed; an excellent copy.

A lavish memorial volume, and of considerable intrinsic value, with war service details under each portrait (arranged with only three exceptions in strict alphabetical order). Two of the exceptions are the VC winners. Lieutenant Rupert Moon of the 58th Battalion (Bullecourt, May 1917) 'resigned from the Bank on 1st December 1919' (as the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' puts it, 'Moon readjusted to civilian life with difficulty'). Corporal Arthur Percy Sullivan 'arrived in England too late to participate in the fighting in France, but offered his services when volunteers were wanted for the Archangel front'; his was the first VC awarded in Northern Russia.

Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 252.

Item #129534

Price (AUD): $300.00