Lot 2906

Description

Australian Cavalry, The N.S.W. Lancer Regiment and The First Australian Horse, by Frank Wilkinson, 1901, with preface by Major-General French, C.M.G., R.A., Commandant N.S.W. Forces, printed by Websdale, Shoosmith & Co., Sydney, hard cover, 64pp with extra blank pages for notes, and with b&w photos throughout and a colour photo, includes nominal rolls, honour roll and casualty roll as well as list of engagements, one of the cover pages with inked inscription, 'To J.H.M.Abbott/Kind regards/from/R Hanlon/1946'. Some foxing, otherwise fine and original first edition.

Note: In January 1900 J.H.M. (John Henry Macartney) Abbott left for service in the Boer War as a Corporal in 1st Australian Horse and in May of that year he was commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He was invalided back to Australia in October. He became a writer over the course of the next 40 years producing novels as well as poetry and prose pieces for various newspapers and periodicals. He died at Rydalmere in Sydney on 12 August 1953 at age 78.