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 two-colour map mounted on the rear pastedown).
Light blue cloth printed in purple; cloth a little mottled and marked (including a light-brown partial drink-ring on the front cover); spine a little sunned; edges and endpapers a little foxed or marked; mild signs of handling; a very good copy. The 15-page Supplement prepared by Charles Stening for the 1984 facsimile reprint edition, updating the history, is included; it is present here as the separately-issued pamphlet in flush-cut card.
The ownership details of SX1624 D.J. Sheppard, a member of the Battalion, are written on the flyleaf. A pair of wartime-vintage mugshots of Sheppard, an illustrated cutting featuring St Peter's Old Collegians on active service (Sheppard is included), and one other relevant photograph are loosely inserted, along with an In Memoriam leaflet for another member of the Battalion, SX1461 Geoffrey Ronald Miethke (1916-1991).
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