Pro Patria: Another 50 Natal Carbineer years 1945 to 1995 (SIGNED)

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, published by Natal Carbineers Trust, 2000, hardcover, illustrated, plastic protector taped to inside boards otherwise condition: as new.

This book is intended to serve as a sequel to Reverend John Stalker's -The Natal Carbineers 1855 to 1911(1912) and Professor Alan Hattersly's Carbineer (1950). In adding another illustrious chapter to the history of South Africa's senior Citizen Force regiment, this book also hopes to both inform and entertain the reader in a manner that the annals-type Stalker history and Hatterley's incomplete story often failed to do.

The specific project of compiling a post-World War II history of the Natal Carbineers was initially entrusted to Natal Witness reporter Mrs Natalie Juul, who was tragically killed in a road accident in 1985. Then Mr Moray Comrie a nephew and namesake of one of the regiment's wartime commanding officers, took the process a little further, but by 1987, when the author was appointed regimental historian, compaeatively little progress had been made...

Hardback with laminated pictorial boards- Preface - 256 pages text with colour photographs, monochrome, drawings, data and information. Definitive title.