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Trade Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. 2nd Impression. Oblong Small Quarto Size [approx 24cm x17.5cm]. A Near Fine copy. An excellent copy. Illustrated with sixteen pages of black and white photographs and maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 276 pages. Harry Murray, an Australian, was the most highly decorated of all the millions of infantrymen who served in the armies of Great Britain and its empire in World War I. He remains the most highly decorated Australian soldier ever.

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers trade paperback size, 276pp, b&w plates. A bit of wear to card edges,corners mildly bumped/curled; a very good copy. The story of Harry Murray, VC CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM, Croix de Guerre, whose daring and astonishing feats of bravery earned him the most decorations awarded to an Australian soldier. At the outbreak of war in 1914, he enlisted as a private soldier in the 16th Battalion. By the end of the war he commanded a machine gun battalion as a lieutenant colonel and had been awarded 6 decorations, including the Victoria Cross. He served on Gallipoli, and fought at Pozieres, Mouquet Farm, the first battle of Bullecourt, Messines and Passchendaele. As an appendix, includes Murray's writings in Reveille.

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers trade paperback size, 276pp, b&w plates. Light wear to card edges/corners, spine a little faded; a very good copy. The story of Harry Murray, VC CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM, Croix de Guerre, whose daring and astonishing feats of bravery earned him the most decorations awarded to an Australian soldier. At the outbreak of war in 1914, he enlisted as a private soldier in the 16th Battalion. By the end of the war he commanded a machine gun battalion as a lieutenant colonel and had been awarded 6 decorations, including the Victoria Cross. He served on Gallipoli, and fought at Pozieres, Mouquet Farm, the first battle of Bullecourt, Messines and Passchendaele. As an appendix, includes Murray's writings in Reveille.

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers trade paperback size, 276pp, b&w plates. Light wear to card edges/corners, spine a little faded; a very good copy. The story of Harry Murray, VC CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM, Croix de Guerre, whose daring and astonishing feats of bravery earned him the most decorations awarded to an Australian soldier. At the outbreak of war in 1914, he enlisted as a private soldier in the 16th Battalion. By the end of the war he commanded a machine gun battalion as a lieutenant colonel and had been awarded 6 decorations, including the Victoria Cross. He served on Gallipoli, and fought at Pozieres, Mouquet Farm, the first battle of Bullecourt, Messines and Passchendaele. As an appendix, includes Murray's writings in Reveille.