Price, Colonel Tom; Calder, Winty

HEROES AND GENTLEMEN: Colonel Tom Price and the Victorian Mounted Rifles.

Pp. x+190(last blank), text illustrations and maps, notes, appendices, references, index; narrow med. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, edges of boards lightly bruised, upper board slightly warped; endpapers offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Jimaringle Publications, Melbourne, 1985. *Raised in 1885 by Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Price, the Victorian Mounted Rifles were established and trained for the defence of Melbourne and the colony of Victoria. After Federation, existing mounted infantry units and the few smaller cavalry units became the basis for the Australian Light Horse. Item #170767

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