Description
Title: Soldiers and Gentlemen
Author: Parker, Gilbert
Condition: Very Good Plus – Minor foxing and slight wear to cover.
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 095937860X
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 233 pages
Comments: The fascinating autobiography of Sapper Gilbert Alexander Parker who served with the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron in Egypt and Mesopotania during World War I. He enlisted in June 1916 and returned to Australia in April, 1919.
The 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron was a unit of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) which served in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) during World War I. It took part in the Mesopotamian Campaign, providing communications to British forces. In total, 558 Australian signallers were sent to Mesopotamia, however only a small fraction of that number were ever in country at one time. Although the squadron did not suffer any deaths from enemy fire, disease was responsible for the deaths of 20 soldiers from the wireless squadrons.
The unit was also known as the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron and 1st Australian and New Zealand Signal Squadron.
