Collection type | Library |
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Author | McQueen, Alex, 1878-1968.; McNamara, John.; Spence, Sue.; Port of Yamba Historical Society.; |
Call Number | 940.426092 M173t |
Document type | Monograph |
Year | ©2012. |
Pagination | 93 p. : ill., 1 map, ports. ; 21 cm. |
Publisher | Port of Yamba Historical Society, |
Note | "Alex McQueen enlisted in the First Battalion 1st Brigade of the AIF on 17th August, 1914, at the age of thirty six. He survived the landing at Gallipoli and service 'One hundred and ten days of hell' before being seriously wounded and returned to Australia in September 1915. Alex McQueen's diary is a graphic account of the conditions endured by our soldiers in World War I. ... He makes frequent reference to his fellow soldiers from the Clarence Valley, many of whom did not return from the bloody battlefi elds as he did."--Preface. "Alex McQueen enlisted in the First Battalion 1st Brigade of the AIF on 17th August, 1914, at the age of thirty six. He survived the landing at Gallipoli and service 'One hundred and ten days of hell' before being seriously wounded and returned to Australia in September 1915. Alex McQueen's diary is a graphic account of the conditions endured by our soldiers in World War I. ... He makes frequent reference to his fellow soldiers from the Clarence Valley, many of whom did not return from the bloody battlefi elds as he did."--Preface. |
Place made | Yamba, N.S.W. : |
There is no glory in war : the Gallipoli diary and poems of Alex McQueen, 1878-1968 / edited by John McNamara and Sue Spence. Gallipoli diary and poems of Alex McQueen, 1878-1968 There is no glory in war : Alex McQueen, 1878-1968
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Subjects
- McQueen, Alex, 1878-1968 Diaries.
- Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Biography.
- Australia. Army. Battalion, 1st Biography.
- Soldiers - New South Wales - Clarence River Valley - Biography.
- World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Turkey - Gallipoli Peninsula Personal narratives, Australian.
- World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Turkey - Gallipoli Peninsula - Participation, Australian.
- Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) - History, Military.
- Australia - History, Military - Biography.
- Clarence Valley (N.S.W) - Biography.