Item #104719 The Old Sixteenth. Being a Record of the 16th Battalion AIF, during the Great War, 1914-1918... With Foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash. 16th Battalion, Captain Cyril LONGMORE.

The Old Sixteenth. Being a Record of the 16th Battalion AIF, during the Great War, 1914-1918... With Foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash ...

Perth, History Committee of the 16th Battalion Association, 1929.

Octavo, x (last blank), 274 pages with 5 maps and 42 illustrations (many from photographs) plus 5 plates (including 3 folding panoramas).

Buckram a little mottled and unevenly sunned; edges and flyleaves lightly foxed, very light nibbling to the leading edge of a few early leaves; an excellent copy.

The book is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion AIF, and the author of that battalion's history. Dornbusch 324; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 219.

Item #104719

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