Guns and Brooches. Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1992. More
Boer War
Lord Methuen's Operations. A Most Successful March! Wolmaransstad & Hartebeestfontein Taken. 5000 Cattle and 15000 Sheep Captured! Battle of Hartebeestfontein Poort! A Stubborn Fight! [drop-title]
Klerksdorp, Transvaal, Printed by H.M. Guest, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer, 'Mining Record' Office, [3 March] 1901. The 'Hobart Mercury' (18 April 1901) reprints the text of this broadside in its entirety, with the following informative introductory paragraph: 'The "Mining Record", published at Klerksdorp, Transvaal, issued the following "Extra" on the..... More
A cabinet card portrait photograph of an unknown Australian officer in South Africa
Inscribed on the verso 'To dear Mother, with the Original's love'. More
Everlasting Silver Leaves, from Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa [cover title]
[Cape Town, possibly J.H. Robinson & Co.], circa 1900. The photograph, featuring mainly artillery shells of various sizes (some of them identified), small arms ammunition, and shrapnel (one piece marked '66 Battery'), is signed in the negative 'B.W. Canby'. To say the image is incongruous in a souvenir greeting card..... More
Extracts from Orders and Memoranda published for the Guidance of Officers, Commanding Columns and Posts in the Orange River Colony [cover title]
Bloemfontein, O.R.C., The Argus Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 1901. These extracts from 17 'Confidential Memos, etc.' left little to the imagination. Number $ simply states that 'All prisoners of war dressed in British uniforms, or when disguised in the distinctive dress worn by our troops, are to be shot..... More
An IOU between two South Australian soldiers, F.W. Belt and H.C. Hawker, while on active service in South Africa in 1900
The contract reads 'Bloemfontein | 13 Apl 1900 | I.O.U. Ten Pounds [with Ten crossed out in pencil, £15 written above it in ink, and 'Fifteen' in pencil, with both initialled in pencil by F.W. Belt] | F.W. Belt | Payable to H.C. Hawker or order'; H.C. Hawker has signed..... More
Letters from an Uitlander, 1899-1902. With introduction by Major Sir Bartle Frere
London, John Murray, 1903 [Murray's Imperial Library edition]. The letters were written to Sir Bartle Frere 'in regular succession, from a date shortly before the war broke out.... The writer is a man who has long been resident in South Africa, and has held more the position of onlooker than..... More
Parliamentary Patriotic Concert. Thursday 22d Feby 1900, Town Hall, commencing 8 o'clock [a souvenir programme]
[Melbourne], Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, 1900. Contemporary newspaper accounts record that the concert was 'in aid of the Patriotic and Bushmen's corps funds'. More
Veteran's Association of Army, Navy & Auxiliary Forces (Incorporated). Commemoration of the Men who gave their Lives for the Empire in the South African War, 1899-1902. Christchurch Cathedral, 2.30 p.m. Sunday, May 29th, 1938 [drop title]
Offered with the similar program for the fiftieth anniversary of the commemoration, held on 12 February 1950. Signs of use and age; a decent copy. [2 items]. More
A vintage photograph of a group of eleven Australian soldiers posed in front of a tent, possibly members of the (Third) 'Bushmen's Contingent at Camp, Langwarrin', Victoria, in late 1899
[Melbourne], R. McGeehan, 96 Albert St., Windsor, [circa 1899]. The second figure from the right in the front row is wearing a slouch hat with a distinctive hatband, and the brim turned up on the right side. We have discovered the same man in one of Rose's Stereoscopic Views, #2242..... More
Tasmanians in the Transvaal War
Hobart, S.G. Loone, 1905. Dornbusch 33; Fielding and O'Neill, page 126; Hackett, page 132. More
An interesting eight-page letter from 96 Trooper Henry Ernest Cooke, Victorian Mounted Rifles, Maitland Camp [Cape Town], 22 June 1900, complete with the original OAS cover
The letter comes 'From No. 96 VMR on active Service South Africa', and is addressed to his cousin, Miss E. Kirwood (Eva) in Glenferrie, Victoria. After he deals at length with the squabbles over the fate of some stamps he had sent, he explains in even greater detail what occurred..... More
Three large vintage gelatin silver photographs of the unveiling of the South African War Memorial, at the corner of North Terrace and King William Street, Adelaide (then known as the National War Memorial) on 6 June 1904
With the stamp of 'J. Gazard, 111 King Wm. St., Adelaide' on the verso of one image, together with a pencilled caption reading 'The National Memorial to the SA troops who fought in South African War. Unveiled by the Governor of SA at Adelaide June 6, 1904'. One image shows..... More
![Item #121028 The Anglo-Boer War. No. 12. The Last Sweep [cover title]. Boer War, Herbert Melville...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121028_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1606530669)
The Anglo-Boer War. No. 12. The Last Sweep [cover title]
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. 'Towards the end of the war, British drives and offensives became more successful. This was due to the lines of blockhouses and wire fences which parcelled up the wide veldt into smaller areas. Also, the British were themselves using raiding..... More
![Item #121024 The Anglo-Boer War. No. 6. Scooping! Sweeping! Fighting! [cover title]. Boer War,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121024_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1606530666)
The Anglo-Boer War. No. 6. Scooping! Sweeping! Fighting! [cover title]
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, [1901]. 'Being a brief account of the operations of the three Columns under the command of Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson, Col. Hickie, and Col. Williams ... in the south-western portion of the Transvaal, May to October, 1901, inclusive' (drop sub-title). In 1939, Herman..... More
The Anglo-Boer War. No. 7. The Fight at Moedwil. Boer Attack on Col. Kekewich's Camp, September 30, 1901 [cover title]
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... More
The Anglo-Boer War. No. 8. After De la Rey
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, etc. 1902. 'The operations against the Boers in the neighbourhood of Klerksdorp, which were begun on Sunday night, March 23rd, 1902, were very cleverly conceived and executed.... The object of the operations was to form a long line of mounted men with the..... More
The Anglo-Boer War. Vicissitudes of a Transvaal Dorp. Klerksdorp
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices'..... More
![Item #121030 Speech by the Right Honourable R. Seddon, Premier [sic] of New Zealand. [Hon....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121030_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1606533590)
Speech by the Right Honourable R. Seddon, Premier [sic] of New Zealand. [Hon. Seddon's Speech (cover title)]
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The position of prime minister in New Zealand was known as premier until 1907. Robert Seddon (1845-1906) was premier from 1893; he died in office. He 'attracted much publicity for his outspokenness about the South African war: he visited South..... More
![Item #121029 Klipdrift. Capture of Lord Methuen [drop title]. Boer War, Lieutenant General Lord...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121029_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1606530670)
Klipdrift. Capture of Lord Methuen [drop title]
[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ More
The Anglo-Boer War. No. 11. Battle Verses. (By W. Thompson, 1st Sc. H.) Paardeberg. Moedwil. Vlakfontein. Braakenlaagte
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The 1st Scottish Horse was one of two volunteer Scottish regiments raised in South Africa during the war; it saw considerable action in the Western Transvaal, especially in the battles at Moedwil, Vlakfontein, and Braakenlaagte. Preambles to these self-titled poems..... More
A collection of six different vintage portrait photographs of Lieutenant (later Captain) Samuel Albert White, together with 65 personal snapshots from his Boer War days
Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) is well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). There are five studio portraits and one taken outdoors, with White astride a...... More
Murray Country Heroes. [Incorporating the History of the Yarrawonga-Mulwala R&SL Sub-Branch of the Victorian Branch of the Returned & Services League (cover sub-title)]
Yarrawonga, Yarrawonga-Mulwala R&SL Sub-Branch, 1995. Not least, the 59th Battalion, the 8th Light Horse, and the Boer War. More
The Australian Army
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2001. The Australian Centenary History of Defence. Volume 1. More