There and Back with a Dinkum
AUTHOR: Colman, W.R.G. [Presented, edited and with additional material by
Claire Woods and Paul Skrebels]
PUBLISHING DETAIL: Australian Scholarly Publishing. Melbourne.
EDITION & DATE: 1st Edition. 2013.
BINDING & PAGES: Trade Paperback . 308 pages .
SIZE & CONDITION: MINT - a NEW copy. Presented and edited with additional
material by Claire Woods and Paul Skrebels. Robust, professional packaging and
tracking provided for all parcels.
CONTENT: "This book is intended to be a plain, straightforward account of
the experiences of an Australian soldier during the Great War." So says
the author who served as a private, NCO and Officer in the 27th Battalion AIF
from 1915 to 1919. But as his service record suggests, there is nothing
ordinary about this book. Presented here for the first time, after lying
unpublished in the Australian War Memorial's archives for almost eighty years,
this is the remarkable story of a young university student who enlists to
"do his bit" during those "lost" years. The author,
Adelaide born, Russell Coleman uses a narrator, John Carlton to describe his
own experience of the Great War from a schoolboy at St Peter's College,
Adelaide to an infantry officer on the Western Front where he was twice wounded
and awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. Includes a glossary of Army terms
and slang, the actual Coleman diary, and commentary by historians, Woods and
Skrebels.
ISBN: 1925003604
WEIGHT: 610 grams
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