WWI 27th Battalion History - The Blue and Brown Diamond. Lieutenant-Colonel W. Dollman & Sergeant H.M. Skinner.
Pub. Lonnen and Cope, Adelaide 1921. 228pp. + Commanding Officers frontispiece, 10 photogravure plates plus numerous maps and a few drawn vignettes of 'Diggers'.
Predominantly raised in South Australia this records events from the Mitcham Camp training ground, 3 months in Gallipoli (curiously only a few pages devoted to this) then all the major engagements in France through to their last parade in Belgium, May 1919.
Brown cloth boards illustrated with a 'Digger' in ruins and colour patch are worn and chipped to the edges, spine missing (remnant included). Newsprint paper toned and browned at the edges. Binding holding well. (22x15cm)

Estimate $400-600