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48856 Ewen, Murray: COLOUR PATCH. The men of the 2/4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion 1940-1945. (Victoria Park), Hesperian Press, (2003). Boards, fine in d/w, frontispiece portrait, maps, colour and b&w illust., pp. xx, 832. Signed by the author. ISBN 0 85905 312 1. The 2/4th Battalion, raised from Western Australia, was employed in "the hopeless task of adding some fire power to the doomed 8th Division in Singapore and those elements of the 7th Division deployed largely unarmed to Java. The members of the battalion fought with ferocity, but in vain and were effectively out of the war by mid-February 1942, the survivors in Japanese hands". Survivors were despatched by their captors to "every field of atrocity the Japanese, ignoring the Geneva Convention, could place them" . Changi, construction projects in Java, Borneo and Thailand, the Hellfire Pass, the Sandakan death march, Korea, Manchuria, Indo-China and Japan. As well as a general history of the Battalion and the conflict they were involved in, the history of every member of the Battalion is meticulously documented. $132.00 AUD |
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