Item #126903 Cheer-up. 'A Story of War Work'. Frederick J. MILLS.
Cheer-up. 'A Story of War Work'
Cheer-up. 'A Story of War Work'
Cheer-up. 'A Story of War Work'

Cheer-up. 'A Story of War Work'

Adelaide, The Cheer-up Society Incorporated, June 1920.

Octavo, 255, [1] (colophon) pages with 57 pages of illustrations and numerous other illustrations in the text (many being from portrait photographs).

Gilt-decorated blue cloth slightly bubbled on the front cover and lightly sunned; boards a little bowed; endpapers offset; an excellent copy.

Inscribed, dated (1 September 1920) and initialled by Mills to 'Brother Fred Johns (Editor SA Freemason)'. Frederick John Mills (1876-1952) was a writer, broadcaster and welfare worker. After World War 1 began, Mills was vice-president (1915) of the Cheer-Up Society, founded by Alexandra Seager and (Sir) William Sowden to provide 'general comfort, welfare, and entertainment' for soldiers. He served (1919-20) on the committee of the Rejected Volunteers' Association of South Australia, and founded and edited the magazine of the Returned Soldiers' Association of South Australia ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). The original recipient of this book was Frederick (Fred) Johns (1868-1932), journalist and biographer, who pioneered the compilation of who's who in Australia.

Item #126903

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