Over the Top With the Third Australian Division
London: Charles H. Kelly, circa 1918/1919. Octavo, illustrated beige cloth, 140 pp., frontispiece, seven plates, in-text illustrations in black and white. Cloth thumbed and foxed, soft corners, hinge split but firm, some foxing throughout, inscription on front free-endpaper leaf 'V. Hadden Woodruff 41st/', otherwise a good copy. A foreword by Sir John Monash K.C.B., V.D. This publication does not constitute an account of the Third Australian Division or the work they undertook during the First World War but it does provide information about life as an Australian soldier.
The Third Australian Division was an infantry unit of the Australian Imperial Force which was active during the First World War between 1916 and 1919. After a few years of inaction, the unit would be remobilised between 1922 and 1946 and then between 1948 and 1991. During the First World War, the Third Australian Division undertook operations in France and Belgium. The division was under the command of Major-General John Monash. Dornbusch, C.E. Australian military bibliography, 263
Trigellis-Smith, S. Shaping history : a bibliography of Australian army unit histories, 185. Item #5148
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