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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> My years between the ages of seven and twelve that I spent on my father’s farm Summerlea about the Sheepwash Creek at Stewarton coincided with the momentous events of World War I. Scores of sturdy heroic men including four Dunlops donned the ANZAC garb to seek high adventure or death. It was a bitter frustration to my burning ardour that my participation was largely limited to The Young Gardeners’ League for my heart yearned for the high romantic ground of adventure in strange lands and the challenge of death. Later I was to reflect upon the advice of a Spanish proverb: ‘Never wish for anything too much. It might come true.’ I served enthusiastically in cadets and Citizen Forces with yearly camps and some training in the Lee-Enfield mark 3 rifle and Lewis gun. After qualifying as a doctor in 1934 I speedily obtained a commission as Captain RAAMC attached to the Coburg-Brunswick Battalion whose annual camps were at Numurkah. This rank I took to England in 1938 during further post-graduate training. I obtained my FRCS England after a ten-week course at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.