Description
SECONDHAND BOOK
When the 6th Australian Battalion sailed from Australia in October 1914, little did it realize, that for the next four years it would travel on a sacrificial journey to Turkey, France and Belgium. The Great War of 1914-1918, was from an Australian point of view, a watershed in our national development. The performance of our enthusiastic citizen soldiers at Gallipoli, mesmerized the British Empire. However by 1918, the AIF had become a professional battle-hardened army. The 6th Battalion was typical of the Australian infantry battalions, and it could be argued that it was one of the best. The guiding hand behind the 6th battalions maturity as a fighting battalion, which was sometimes described as being AS ROUGH AS BAGS, was Lieutenant Colonel H. Gordon Bennett, who was CO in 1915 – 1916.
The history of the Sixth is vividly described and supplemented by the extensive use of diaries, letters, interviews with veterans, and photographs, many of which have never before been published. The inclusion of many appendices makes this history a notable addition to Australian Military literature.
Specifications:
Condition: Fair. Former library copy.
Publisher: R.J. & S.P. Austin
Year: 1992
Format: Hardback
Pages: 394pp
ISBN: 0646086006
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