Burns Corporal J D (2 results)

Softcover. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Staple-bound. Good condition - some light wear and age-toning to edges. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owners name to inside of front cover. Loosely inserted in a copy of "Particulars Required for the Roll of Honour of Australia in the Memorial War Museum". Scarce. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 34 pages. The son of Rev. Hugh MacLeod and Mary Edith Lyall Burns born at Geelong, Vic. He was a former student of Scotch College and was about to enter Melbourne University, when he enlisted on 2nd February 1915. He had been Editor of âThe Collegianâ (College Magazine) 1913-4; and is the author of a known poem âFor Englandâ (see below). Cpl Burns was a survivor from the ill-fated Southland which was torpedoed at 9.51 am on 2 September. He was killed in action just over 2 weeks later at Gallipoli on 18 September 1915, aged 19.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First & Only Edition. 34pp, 2 bw ills. Or cream stapled card with border in the colours of unit colour patch. Some toning of covers, tiny marginal 'nibble' to fore-edge of rear few pages. Corporal Jim Burns was killed at Gallipoli. A student at Scotch College when he enlisted he penned For England which became famed throughout the empire, and is now commemorated by a plaque at the War Memorial. This poem, along with others he wrote, are included in the book, as is his account of his transport ship HMT Southland being torpedoes by a German submarine. The book also contains a number of tributes among which is one from the Headmaster of Scotch College, an extract from a letter from Captain-Chaplain D Macrae Stewart and a tribute froma fellow soldier. Size: 8vo.…