Physical description

Light brown hardcover book with a lighter brown spine. There is a handdrawn image of a soldier smelling a flower in a dark brown border. The title is printed across the bottom.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'B74' [Handwriiten in pencil on the first page]
'To / Returned Nurses Club / of Victoria / with compliments from / [?]' [Handwritten in pencil on the first page]
'[? signature] / 25/7/34' [Handwritten in pencil on the first page]

Summary

The Fourth Division Army Medical Corps comprised the 4th, 12th, and 13th Field Ambulances, but this compilation is not just a record of fallen comrades, but "a remarkably rich work, not just an anthology of digger verse, song, and illustration but an extensive record of Australian war service, including the Anglo-Boer War. In addition to the requisite chronology of the Great War, the volume includes laboriously compiled records of the entire A.I.F. giving every unit in all divisions, the principal engagements, casualties, etc; a detailed record of the Nursing Service; a detailed record of the Australian Navy and the R.A.N.B. in the war; details of warship and mercantile marine losses; number and name of every transport requisitioned by the Australian Navy with complements of officers and men (and horses); honour rolls of the 4th, 12th, and 13th Field Ambulances; etc. The Boer War section includes details of enlistments, principal actions, casualties, as well as South African War songs and verses (and printings of these are especially elusive). The illustrations are by, among others, Hal Gye, Cecil Hartt, and Leyshon White."--Bookseller's description - from Trove record.