RITCHIE (Elsie) Comp.
Crusaders of the Southern Cross: The Australian Light Horse in the Middle East, from the Letters of Colonel Jack Davies, MC, VD.
1st Ed., 390pp., A4 format, limp wraps., num. photos., sketches, several sketch maps. Leichhardt, NSW: Privately Printed for the Compiler.
1998
#67419
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Jack Davies' extensive & regular letters from Egypt & Palestine during WW1, plus supporting material. He was commissioned in the Citizen Force in 1912, joined the 12th Light Horse in 1914, served in the campaign in Egypt inc. Romani, Beersheba (MC) &c., through to the capture of Damascus in 1918, with some periods on Chauvel's staff. Orig. limp. wraps. (also published by the compiler in a hardback version: both versions scarce). VG. See illustration on our website.
£125
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