Australian Army Units and Unit Serials of the Second World War (Hardcover)

During the Second World War, the Australian Army raised over 6,300 individual units, from infantry battalions to mobile bath units Each was assigned a unique identifying Unit Serial Number which was used for marking all of a unit's equipment, both in numerals and as a three-coloured bar-code. Australian Army Units and Unit Serials of the Second World War provides a complete list of all the Australian Army units and their Unit Serial Numbers, as well as details of the three-coloured bar-coding system. As a result, it provides historians, militaria collectors and re-enactors with the means to accurately identify each individual Australian Army unit by its Unit Serial Number and coloured bar-code, whether the marking is visible in a period image or on a surviving historical artifact. It also allows re-enactors and restorers to accurately reproduce authentic Unit Serial Number markings on equipment.