Lot 5145

Description

First Battalion A.I.F. 1914-1919, by the unit history committee, Lt-Col B.V.Stacy, Lt-Col F.J.Kindon and Lt H.V.Chedgey, 1st edition 1931, hard cover, no dust jacket but plastic covered, quarto (15.5x23.5cm), 151pp with fold-out map, also includes Nominal Roll. Foxing and some repair to loose front cover and name on inside back cover whited out, otherwise very good and very rare.

This battalion took part in the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915 as part of the second and third waves, and served there until the evacuation in December. Two members of the battalion, Captain A.J.Shout and Lieutenant L.M.Keysor were awarded Victoria Crosses for their valour at Lone Pine, the first posthumously. The battalion then served in France and the Western Front and at Bullecourt in May 1917, Corporal G.J.Howell became the third member of the battalion to be awarded the Victoria Cross.