Burns corporal j d jim (1 risultati)

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First & Only Edition. 34pp, 2 bw ills. Or cream stapled card with border in the colours of unit colour patch. Some toning of covers, tiny marginal 'nibble' to fore-edge of rear few pages. Corporal Jim Burns was killed at Gallipoli. A student at Scotch College when he enlisted he penned For England which became famed throughout the empire, and is now commemorated by a plaque at the War Memorial. This poem, along with others he wrote, are included in the book, as is his account of his transport ship HMT Southland being torpedoes by a German submarine. The book also contains a number of tributes among which is one from the Headmaster of Scotch College, an extract from a letter from Captain-Chaplain D Macrae Stewart and a tribute froma fellow soldier. Size: 8vo.…