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SILAS (Signaller Ellis)
Crusading at ANZAC Anno Domini 1915. Pictured & Described by Signaller Ellis Silas, A Soldier Artist Serving with the Australian Forces.
Forewords by General Sir Ian Hamilton, GCB, DSO, ADC & General Sir William Birdwood KCIE, CB, CIE, DSO. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., [88]pp., oblong 4to (250x185mm)., photo. portrait of the artist, 40 drawings. The British-Australasian.
1916
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Ellis Luciano Silas (1885-1972) was an English born artist & designer who studied under Sir Walter Sickert. He emigrated to Australia in 1907 & settled in Perth. In 1914 he joined the 16th Bn. AIF, landed at Gallipoli, 25th April, 1915 & evacuated with shell-shock after three weeks in the line. "In this book Silas gives the reader his personal odyssey, with the first eight illustrations describing the voyage out and street scenes in Cairo. Most of the illustrations record his experience at Gallipoli, from the landing on 25th April until his admission to hospital in Heliopolis... His series of drawings, worked up from sketches on the spot, was published the following year with accompanying comments. Many of the drawings show something of what it was like to be fighting in three of the most deadly places, then being evacuated on the transport 'Galeka', the decks of which were lined with wounded. Silas was able to walk, and was on duty for the whole voyage, assisting those who could not. He collapsed as soon as he was put aboard the hospital train from Alexandria to Cairo and in the care of Indian hospital orderlies." - with acknowledgements for this detail taken from Michael Treloar's eloquent note in his catalogue "From ANZAC to the Hindenburg Line - The Patrick Walters Collection." Orig. dec. wraps., printed in red & black, front cover somewhat chipped & worn with a little loss at extremities, neat amateur tape repair to sp., VG thus & rare (six copies on JISC/Library Hub).
£325
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