Item #108397 Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF (the Adelaide Rifles), 1939-1945. 2/10th Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Frank ALLCHIN.
Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF (the Adelaide Rifles), 1939-1945
Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF (the Adelaide Rifles), 1939-1945

Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF (the Adelaide Rifles), 1939-1945

[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958].

Large octavo, xxviii, 454 pages with a map plus 32 pages of plates and 6 maps (including a folding map mounted on the rear pastedown).

Light blue cloth printed in purple; spine a little sunned; an excellent copy.

The author was also Chairman of the 2/10th Battalion AIF History Committee; his signature (E.F. Allchin) appears at the end of the acknowledgements section (page ix). Fellow-committeeman Hec Ellis, who contributed the chapter on sport, has also signed this page (appending the date 6 May 1958).

Item #108397

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