The Australian Army
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2001. The Australian Centenary History of Defence. Volume 1. More
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2001. The Australian Centenary History of Defence. Volume 1. More
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2006/ 2001. More
London, I.B. Taurus, 2012 (revised)/ 2009. More
Adelaide, Gillingham Printers, 1985. A 'collection of thoughts and memories' of members of the Australian Army Nursing Service; of North Australian and Islands interest. More
Adelaide, Gillingham Printers, 1985. Signed by Jill Clark on the title page. A 'collection of thoughts and memories' of members of the Australian Army Nursing Service; of North Australian and Islands interest. More
Adelaide, Gillingham Printers, 1985. Signed by both authors on the title page. A 'collection of thoughts and memories' of members of the Australian Army Nursing Service; of North Australian and Islands interest. More
Barnsley, Pen and Sword Military, 2006. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton [OAM], and his inscribed date of purchase. More
[Adelaide], Citizens and Business Men's Committee, 1919. A very attractive publication, rarely seen on the open market. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 247. More
[Adelaide], Citizens and Business Men's Committee, 1919. A very attractive publication, rarely seen on the open market. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 247. More
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1920. Frederick William Harvey (1888-1957), English poet and officer in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment; 'he was captured on 17 August 1916 and spent the remainder of the war in prisoner-of-war camps. His first volume of poems, "A Gloucestershire Lad", was published shortly after..... More
Bourne, Birches Publishing, 2003. Inscribed, dated (2003) and signed in ink on the title page by the author, whose father served in World War 1. More
Adelaide, Australian Down Syndrome Association, 2014 [revised third edition]/ 1991. The editor is one of the daughters of Olive Haynes. More
William Otho Hewett (1887-1942) enlisted in Adelaide on 26 November 1914; he 'served with the 9th Light Horse Regiment [at Gallipoli] and 3rd Light Horse Brigade Headquarters during the First World War. Trained as a designer is South Australia, he joined the ANZAC Divisional Headquarters at Romani as a panoramic..... More
At Sea, Printed by Walter Wade for the Expeditionary Force, October 1914. HMAT A19 'Afric' departed Sydney on 18 October 1914, and left Albany with the first convoy on 1 November. This first issue, on linen, is undated, but our research has unearthed the fact that the second issue, on..... More
At Sea, Printed by Walter Wade for the Expeditionary Force, October 1914. HMAT A19 'Afric' departed Sydney on 18 October 1914, and left Albany with the first convoy on 1 November. This first issue, on linen, is undated, but our research has unearthed the fact that the second issue, on..... More
London, Wightman & Co., Old Westminster Press [Printers], [1917]. HMAT A70 'Ballarat' was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel on 25 April 1917 and sank the next day without loss of life. 'This souvenir was practically ready for publication on the eve of the disaster to the..... More
At Sea, The Editors (and printed by Cape Times Ltd., Printers, Capetown), 1918. The souvenir of the return voyage 'to our "Bright Australia" of several Nursing Sisters and Troops, most of whom have taken part in active operations on various fronts of this world war' (the introduction). The editors 'regret..... More
Sydney, O'Loughlin Bros. (for the Editorial Committee), [1919]. The quotas, Numbers 30 and 31, for repatriation to Australia on HMAT A72 'Beltana', were from the 4th and 5th Divisions; with a six-page 'Tentative Nominal Roll'. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
[At Sea, The Societies, as above], 10 August 1918. Not surprisingly, we can find no record of this most ephemeral item. 'Pte C. Spencer Smith' is written at the head of the first page. The service record of 55891 Cecil Spencer Smith indicates that he hailed from the Adelaide suburb..... More
At Sea, SS 'Port Macquarie', [1919]. Provenance: Lieutenant Ivan Schroder Webley, AFC, with his signature at the head of the menu. The blank verso has been signed by 25 fellow passengers on this ship (renamed HMAT 'Port Macquarie' for the duration of the war) returning troops to Australia. Not least..... More
London, Printed by Cassell & Co., Ltd., [1918]. A souvenir of the voyage of the troopship HMAT A15 'Port Sydney', which left Melbourne on 9 November 1917 'carrying 1200 Field Artillery Reinforcements and about 300 of other units' (including elements of the Railway Section and the AFC). It arrived at..... More
Adelaide, 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase, by J.L. Bonython & Co.', [1919]. A 'Chronicle of the doings of the last Australian troopship to reach South Africa and find that their services were not required, as an Armistice had been signed but a few days previously' (foreword). The extensive..... More
On this day, HMT 'Ivernia', formerly SS 'Ivernia' (a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line until August 1914 when she was hired by HM Government), was en route from Alexandria to Marseille. Less than seven months later, travelling from Marseille to Alexandria on New Years Day 1917 with..... More
Sydney, Finn Brothers, Printers, [1919]. A souvenir of the repatriation voyage of the troopship 'Port Darwin' in June and July 1919. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More