The 28th is a unit history of an Australian infantry battalion that served in the First World War, written by Herbert Brayley Collett, an officer associated with the formation. This first volume covers the battalion’s service through Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, and the Sinai Peninsula between 1915 and 1919.
Drawing on records, diaries, and personal knowledge, Collett documents the raising of the battalion, its training, and its experience of the Gallipoli campaign and the desert war. The book preserves the names, movements, and ordeals of the men who served in the Australian Imperial Force, in the tradition of carefully compiled regimental histories. For students of the AIF and Anzac history, it is a detailed primary record, available here as a free EPUB download.