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The Second Fourteenth Battalion. A History of an Australian Infantry Battalion in the Second World War
by RUSSELL, W.B
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1948. Octavo, xx, 336 pages with maps plus maps, plates, a large folding map and endpaper maps. Cloth lightly rubbed and bumped; edges a little foxed; later ownership stamp on the front flyleaf; a very good copy with the cropped front panel of the dustwrapper mounted on the front cover. Provenance: J.H. MacGregor-Dowsett, with his armorial bookplate on the verso of the front flyleaf. James Harvey MacGregor-Dowsett (1899-1990), community leader and charity worker: 'on 1 July 1940 Dowsett transferred to the Australian Imperial Force and in the following February was posted to the Middle East with the 2/14th Field Company. He served in intelligence and returned to Army Headquarters in Australia in March 1942 before transferring in December to the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit; he worked with the native labour section. Promoted to lieutenant in June 1943, he rose to temporary captain in December 1945' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 108509
- Title
- The Second Fourteenth Battalion. A History of an Australian Infantry Battalion in the Second World War
- Author
- RUSSELL, W.B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1948
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