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Captain Walter Cheyne BELFORD: 'Legs-Eleven' Being the Story / 1st Edition 1940

by 11th Battalion]. BELFORD, Captain Walter Cheyne

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'Legs-Eleven'. Being the Story of the 11th Battalion (AIF) in the Great War of 1914-1918 Author: [11th Battalion]. BELFORD, Captain Walter Cheyne Title: 'Legs-Eleven'. Being the Story of the 11th Battalion (AIF) in the Great War of 1914-1918 Publication: Perth, Imperial Printing Company, 1940 Edition: First Edition Description: Octavo, xii (first and last blank), 667 pages with 6 maps and 68 illustrations. The first leaf is in fact the front flyleaf, with the half-title printed on the verso. Green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; cloth a little stained, rubbed and sunned, with slight wear to the extremities; inner hinges expertly reinforced; endpapers offset; occasional emphases in ink and pencil (mainly small marks in the margins); overall, a very good copy of a scarce work. Provenance: the family of Lieutenant James Murray Aitken, killed in action near Harbonnières on 10 August 1918. He is mentioned by name several times in the text. 'An extract from a letter written by Private J.M. Aitken in the early days of camp life' is found on pages 13 and 14; he appears in a photograph reproduced on page 17, with the caption 'Men from the Goldfields in original 11th Battalion. (Lieut.) Jim Aitken, top left'; on page 284, it is reported that 'Lieut. J.M. Aitken was knocked over and slightly wounded by the same shell' that killed Lieutenant George Walters at Pozières; and on page 612, 'Captain Le Nay fell and with him the gallant Lieut. Jim Aitken, who had been at t

  • Publisher: Imperial Printing Company
  • Year: 1940
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Condition: Very Good

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