Description
Title: The Forty Eight – Keith’s Men of the First AIF
Author: Ellis, Drew
Condition: Mint
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN: 9780992493202
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 197 pages
Comments: Keith’s forgotten sons, the town’s first soldiers …
To foreign fields and deserts parched
They farewelled Keith and off they marched,
And whether killed, or grew to old
Herein, at last, their stories told.
Even before the War, some of Keith’s Forty-Eight went into battle on a weekly basis, on the football field. Fit, athletic and competitive, the young men of Keith, South Australia and surrounding areas who loved the combat of the football field would soon be volunteering to serve in the First World War.
But who were these men, and what were their stories ?
From the Foreword:
Drew Ellis has given us an excellent, comprehensive and beautifully-wrought biography of the 48 united by Keith and war. The 48 whose service, sacrifice and struggle is crucial to the spirit of our nation. The volunteer spirit. This spirit never dies.
Keith is a small farming town in the south-east of South Australia. It is approximately 225 km from Adelaide.
