Item #130196 From Snow to Jungle. A History of the 2/3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion. 2/3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion, John BELLAIR.
From Snow to Jungle. A History of the 2/3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion
From Snow to Jungle. A History of the 2/3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion

From Snow to Jungle. A History of the 2/3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion

Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1987.

Octavo, xxviii, 298 pages with 73 illustrations and 12 maps.

Papered boards a little rubbed at the extremities; minimal highlighting and a small attached note to a name in the nominal roll (page 272); an excellent copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper.

'The Battalion was formed in South Australia in 1940 and its first Commanding Officer was Arthur Blackburn, an Adelaide solicitor who had won the Victoria Cross at Pozieres in 1916'. Trigellis-Smith 445.

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