HEROES AND GENTLEMEN: Colonel Tom Price and the Victorian Mounted Rifles

by Calder, Winty

First Edition

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Book Description

Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria: Jimaringle Publications, 1985. x, + 189pp., intext, b/white halftone plates, sketch-illustrations, and line-drawn maps. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Boards nominally bumped. Leaves clean, several with dog-ears. Art-illustrated gloss boards slightly U.V. affected on backstrip. No dustjacket. 'Heroes and Gentlemen' is about volunteer Victorian Mounted infantrymen, who did much to lay the foundantion of the Australian Light Horse. Raised in 1885 by Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Price, the Victorian Mounted Rifles were established and trained to defend Melbourne and the Colony of Victoria..." Contents include: Prelims., Scares & Alarms, Growth of the Regiment, Equiping, Parades-Competitions-Duties, Maritime strike, V.M.R. in England, Call to arms in South Africa, Regiment in South Africa, New Recruits, Federation, Old Brigade, Appendices, Refs., Index. Book weight approx. 870g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.. First Edition. Illustrated Boards Hardcover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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