Historical information
From front cover -
"THE BOY/ COLONEL/ - LIEUTENANT COLONEL DOUGLAS MARKS,/ THE YOUNGEST BATTALION COMMANDER IN THE AIF"
Physical description
Soft cover book.
Cover - cardboard, black and red colour print on front, spine and back.
Illustrated - front top - sepia colour photograph of "Marks in machine gun post", front lower and back top - troops "playing polo with donkeys as mounts".
415 pages - cut, plain, off white colour paper. Illustrated black and white photographs and maps.
Inscription - page after title page, handwritten information.
Inscriptions & markings
Handwritten inscription - black ink pen.
"To The Lovely M/ from the/ gorgeous ER/ with lots of love xx/ x Happy Birthday"