Forgotten Men (1926) By Herbert Scanlon
 
A series of graphic and complete stories of humour and pathos, set during World War I.
 
Herbert Sanlon was born in Korumburra, Victoria, his true name was Scanlon Herbert. Before he enlisted, his occupation was a farmer. At seventeen years of age Herbert Scanlon lied about his age when he came to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force in 1915 as Herbert Sanlon. In and out of auxiliary hospitals throughout his service, Scanlon was eventually discharged and sent home due to nephritis. 
 
In 1916, he enlisted in Melbourne as an A.I.F, and joined the World War 1. This is the biggest things that happened in his life. He was awarded two medals which are the British War medal and Victory Medal. 
 
After the war Scanlon embarked on a career as a writer, eventually publishing some 17 short collections of short stories, poems and the occasional humorous episodes. While many of the stories are standard trench experience accounts, a number are written with sensitivity and passion. The booklets were sold for one shilling by door-to-door salesmen, ex-servicemen whom Scanlon claimed he had selected.
 
He died in 26 December 1936.
 
Soft Cover
32 pages
In Fair to Good Condition