Volume 5 from the 12 volume series The Gallant Legion. Very scarce.

The Gallant Company by H. R. Williams is a vivid and deeply personal memoir of an Australian soldier's service with the 56th Battalion, AIF, during the First World War. First published in 1933 and later issued as Volume 5 of The Gallant Legion series, the book follows Williams from enlistment through the brutal campaigns on the Western Front, including the Somme, Fromelles, Villers-Bretonneux and the final Allied offensives of 1918. Written with authenticity, warmth and understated humour, it combines gripping accounts of combat with reflections on the camaraderie, endurance and character of the ordinary Australian infantryman. Praised by Lieutenant-General Sir Talbot Hobbs as one of the finest Australian soldiers' memoirs, The Gallant Company remains an important firsthand account of the experiences of the 56th Battalion and the Australian Imperial Force in France.