Sydney, Printed by John Sands Limited, [1918]. 'A Record of the return to Australia of 1,500 members of the AIF' in February-March 1918. More than the standard fare: the last twenty pages contain the complete nominal roll of the officers and men on board. This copy belonged to one of..... More

Charters Towers, 'Presented to the Charters Towers Patriotic Committee, by the Staff and Proprietary of "The Northern Miner"', 1915. An advertisement for the souvenir appeared in the local paper, 'The Northern Miner' on Thursday 2 September 1915: 'Patriotic Day Souvenir.... To be sold for one shilling each.... a rare production..... More

North Sydney, Winn & Co., Printers, [1919]. More

Sydney, B. Jackson & Co., [1919]. Unusually, the biographical entries in the book are grouped together by the places the men came from (although this is useful in a parochial sense), and there are many family groups. With very few exceptions, all the men commemorated here appear to come from..... More

Melbourne, Osboldstone and Company, 1921. A lavish memorial volume, and of considerable intrinsic value, with war service details under each portrait (arranged with only three exceptions in strict alphabetical order). Two of the exceptions are the VC winners. Lieutenant Rupert Moon of the 58th Battalion (Bullecourt, May 1917) 'resigned from..... More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1901. This history of these two cavalry units, from their foundation through to the end of the Boer War, is 'undoubtedly a regimental record, but it is something more - it is an attempt to explain, and to some extent combat, the unreasoning prejudice which has..... More

Melbourne, Specialty Press, 1922. Ownership signatures of M.H. Farrell (12 July 1929) and J.M. Farrell (written at a later date) appear on the front flyleaf. the honour roll includes 2301 Private J.M. Farrell, killed in action in Belgium on 15 October 1917. His service records suggest the signatures are those..... More

Brisbane, 9th Battalion AIF Association, 1960 to 1966. These issues contain much of interest in relation to the 9th Battalion's service in the First World War, including lengthy accounts of the Gallipoli campaign and several battles on the Western Front. One of the contributions is by Bill Harney. Perhaps more..... More

Sydney, Ronald G. McDonald, 1935. The title page is signed in ink 'Nevill M. Smyth VC'. Major-General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth VC KCB (1868-1941) wrote the foreword to this book. He was a British officer, sent by Kitchener to Gallipoli in May 1915. He was in command of the Australian..... More

[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1990 (facsimile edition)]/ 1936. One of only 300 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 295 (giving '1970/80' as the date of this facsimile edition). More

Brisbane, A. Green, 2009 (facsimile edition)/ 1924. Number 27 of 400 copies. Loosely inserted is a printed slip giving publication details. See Dornbusch 384; Fielding and O'Neill, page 233; Trigellis-Smith 279. More

Brisbane, 42nd Battalion AIF Association, 1938. Provenance: Miss Adela Dibdin, with the front flyleaf inscribed and signed to her 'from "one amongst those present", A.C. Dibdin, Xmas 1938'. Lieutenant Arthur Coleman Dibdin saw action on the Western Front. His elder brother, Major Edward John Dibdin DSO, was one of the..... More

[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1980s (facsimile edition)]/ 1919. The limitation is not stated, but the Burridge editions were typically limited to between 200 and 300 copies. The author was a Catholic priest attached to the 48th Battalion as chaplain; he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. See..... More