Item #98585 The Stretcher. Journal of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance. First Number. March, 1917 [and] ... Second Number. April, 1917. [Together with] BARRETT, Charles and Tom V. BRENNAN (editors): The Cacolet. Journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance. Number 3, September, 1917 [and] ... Number 4, June, 1918 (edited by Tom Brennan). Camel Corps, Private Charles Leslie BARRETT.
The Stretcher. Journal of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance. First Number. March, 1917 [and] ... Second Number. April, 1917. [Together with] BARRETT, Charles and Tom V. BRENNAN (editors): The Cacolet. Journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance. Number 3, September, 1917 [and] ... Number 4, June, 1918 (edited by Tom Brennan)
The Stretcher. Journal of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance. First Number. March, 1917 [and] ... Second Number. April, 1917. [Together with] BARRETT, Charles and Tom V. BRENNAN (editors): The Cacolet. Journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance. Number 3, September, 1917 [and] ... Number 4, June, 1918 (edited by Tom Brennan)
The Stretcher. Journal of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance. First Number. March, 1917 [and] ... Second Number. April, 1917. [Together with] BARRETT, Charles and Tom V. BRENNAN (editors): The Cacolet. Journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance. Number 3, September, 1917 [and] ... Number 4, June, 1918 (edited by Tom Brennan)
The Stretcher. Journal of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance. First Number. March, 1917 [and] ... Second Number. April, 1917. [Together with] BARRETT, Charles and Tom V. BRENNAN (editors): The Cacolet. Journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance. Number 3, September, 1917 [and] ... Number 4, June, 1918 (edited by Tom Brennan)
The Stretcher. Journal of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance. First Number. March, 1917 [and] ... Second Number. April, 1917. [Together with] BARRETT, Charles and Tom V. BRENNAN (editors): The Cacolet. Journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance. Number 3, September, 1917 [and] ... Number 4, June, 1918 (edited by Tom Brennan)
The Stretcher. Journal of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance. First Number. March, 1917 [and] ... Second Number. April, 1917. [Together with] BARRETT, Charles and Tom V. BRENNAN (editors): The Cacolet. Journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance. Number 3, September, 1917 [and] ... Number 4, June, 1918 (edited by Tom Brennan)

The Stretcher. Journal of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance. First Number. March, 1917 [and] ... Second Number. April, 1917. [Together with] BARRETT, Charles and Tom V. BRENNAN (editors): The Cacolet. Journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance. Number 3, September, 1917 [and] ... Number 4, June, 1918 (edited by Tom Brennan)

Melbourne, [Camel Brigade Field Ambulance], 1917 (The Stretcher), and Cairo, Nile Mission Press, 1917 and 1918 (Cacolet).

Small quarto, four issues, 16; 16; 32 [and] 38 pages with numerous illustrations (mostly from photographs).

Muted colour pictorial wrappers; they are essentially very fine copies.

'Stories, anecdotes, verse and photos written and produced by the soldiers of the unit' (Trove). Both titles are very rare, and it is clear from the records that the connection we have made - that 'Cacolet' is the continuation of 'The Stretcher' - is not commonly known, if at all. The clincher for us was the doggerel printed on the verso of the front cover of the first issue of the second title: 'Cacolet is the "Camel" for "stretcher" / While the "stretcher" for "camel" is "hoosta" / The "first" won the toss and this is to let'cher / Perceive we're just "out" as we "use'ter"'. These four journals are bound together in early limp cloth; between these two different titles, copies of a third similar journal are bound in. Full details are: Barrak. The Official Organ of the Imperial Camel Corps [The Camel Corp Review - cover subtitle]. [Number 1], 1st July 1917; [Number 2], 1st September 1917; [Number 3], 1st November 1917; and [Number 4], 1st February 1918 [all published?]. Cairo, [Imperial Camel Corps], 1917 and 1918. Quarto, four numbers, each issue 12 pages (last blank) with a few illustrations. Pictorial wrappers (the fourth one with different artwork and the subtitle 'The Official Camel Corps Review'); early neat paper reinforcement to two leading edges; uniformly fine copies of yet more rarities. There is no hint to the provenance of this wonderful collection, but Charles Barrett would have to be at the top of the short list.

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