Orders, Decorations & Medals - Militaria

Lot 366    SESSION 1, eSALE (ONLINE ONLY: BEGINS TO CLOSE FROM 9.30AM M    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Militaria

Estimate $100
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AUSTRALIANS IN ACTION, with title page Australians in Action in New Guinea, by Signaller L.C. Reeves, photographs by Signaller H. Ellis, with introduction by Lieut. Col. Paton, published by W.C. Penfold & Co Ltd, Sydney, 1915, 97pp + ads; Riders Of Destiny, The 4th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance 1917-1918, An Autobiography and History, by Patrick M. Hamilton OBE, second edition 1996, hardcover with dust jacket, 189pp, b&w photos and some maps throughout, with recommendations for awards and a nominal roll; Australian Imperial Force, Staff, Regimental, and Gradation Lists Of Officers, January, 1916, official booklet, 272pp, top right hand corner marked Lt. Bond. The first with damage to cover, foxing, otherwise good, the second good very fine, the last with foxing and some damage to lower right corner of the first few pages, otherwise very good. (3)

Lyle Comyn Reeves served in New Guinea in 1914 with the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. His book published in 1915 was one of the first Australian publications about the war. He then joined the AIF enlisting with the 20th Battalion serving until war's end and returned home in 1919.