b'119851 853850 853A BRONZE STATUETTE depicting a World War One soldierA.W. KEOWN, throwing a hand grenade, titled The Bomb Thrower, overallFORWARD WITH THE FIFTH - The Story of Five Years War 24cm high. Service Fifth Inf. Battalion, A.I.F., $500750 [Melbourne : The Specialty Press, 1921, 1st ed.], 326pp, frontis portrait, b&w plates, original light brown cloth with 851 black decoration and lettering.W. DOLLMAN and H.M. SKINNER,The battalion was raised within a fortnight of the declaration The Blue and Brown Diamond - A History of the 27th Battalionof war in August 1914 and embarked just two months later. Australian Imperial Force 1915 - 1919,After a brief stop in Albany, the battalion proceeded to Egypt, [Adelaide : Lonnen & Cope, 1921, 1st ed.], 228pp + photoarriving on 2 December. It later took part in the ANZAC landing plates; with List of Decorations and Our Glorious Dead;on 25 April 1915, as part of the second wave. It was led by original decorated cloth binding. Lieutenant Colonel D. S. Wanliss, the officer who had raised the battalion. Ten days after the landing the 2nd Brigade was The 27th Battalion was raised in South Australia in Marchtransferred from ANZAC to Cape Helles to help in the attack 1915, with a large number from the suburbs of Adelaide. Theon the village of Krithia. The attack captured little ground but battalion left Australia in June, and, after two months spentcost the brigade almost a third of its strength.training in Egypt, landed at Gallipoli on 12 September. At$200300Gallipoli, the 7th Brigade, which included the 27th Battalion, reinforced the weary New Zealand and Australian Division. The 27th had a relatively quiet time at Gallipoli and the battalion854departed the peninsula in December, having suffered onlyArthur Charles Niquet OLDEN, (Lieut.-Colonel), light casualties. After another stint in Egypt, the 7th BrigadeWESTRALIAN CAVALRY IN THE WAR - The Story of the proceeded to France as part of the 2nd Australian Division.Tenth Light Horse Regisment, A.I.F., in the Great War, The 27th Battalion entered the front-line trenches for the first1914-1918, time on 7 April 1916 and took part in its first major battle at[Melbourne: Alexander McCubbin, 1921, 1st ed.], 344pp, 3 Pozires between 28 July and 5 August. maps (2 folding), plates, and 7 folding maps in the end pocket; $250350 red cloth, with lettering in black; nominal roll, roll of honour; with large part of the original dust jacket present (but defective).852 With a two-page foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Cyril LONGMORE, Capt.,Chauvel. The 10th Australian Light Horse was the only AIF Eggs-a-Cook - The Story of the Forty- light horse regiment recruited in Western Australia during Fourth : War as the Digger Fought It.the First World War. The regiment was raised in October [Perth : The Colortype Press, 184pp including photo plates,1914 when it became apparent that Western Australia could maps and illustrations; rebound in half-leather over clothprovide more than a single squadron of mounted soldiers. retaining the pictorial soft front cover, but lacks the nominal roll. The regiment joined the 3rd Light Horse Brigade in Egypt and served dismounted at Gallipoli. The regiments most famous The 44th Battalion was raised at Claremont, Western Australiaactions were the charge at the Nek on 7 August 1915, and Hill in February 1916. It formed part of the 11th Brigade of the60 on 2930 August. It was in this last action that Lieutenant 3rd Australian Division, and soon became known as OldV.H. Hu Throssell performed the valorous deeds for which Bills Thousand after its first commanding officer, Lieutenanthe was awarded the Victoria Cross. He was the only Australian Colonel William Mansbridge. light horseman to be so decorated during the Great War.$100150$500600 '