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FALLON (Capt. D., MC)
The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme).
1st USA Ed., [vi]+131pp., portrait frontis., 7 plates. VG in dw. NY: Watt & Co.
1918
#67784
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Author was staff sgt. at the RMA at Dunstroon in New South Wales in 1914; accompanied the AIF to Gallipoli until the evacuation then commissioned in the Buckinghamshire Bn., Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in June 1916, joined 1st Bucks Bn. in France 31/7/16 (ptn. cdr. in "C" Coy.), wounded 15/8/16, rejoined 4/9/16, wounded 16/11/16 & awarded MC. Interesting experiences on the Somme &c. are interspersed with some blatant propaganda passages. Orig. brown cloth, titled in black, VG in dw (with illustration of a tank in action) & this edition includes portrait & plates not present in UK edition. Excellent copy with neat label & light stamps of the Watab Pulp & Paper Co. Library at Sartell, Minnesota. Rare in dw. See illustration on our website.
£145
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