'Australia Will Do Me!' [Reprinted from 'The Rising Sun', April 14, 1919]
[London, YMCA, 1919]. More
[London, YMCA, 1919]. More
London, Wilson and Co. [Printers, for the Brigade] (Volume 2), December 1916, and [Sydney, Government Printer, 1920] (the Preface is dated 1 February 1920). The cover sub-titles are 'Camp Life in England' (Volume II), and 'Active Service Issue' (Volume III). These volumes reproduce the brigade's typescript journals with important additional..... More
No details are supplied, but we suggest a training camp in Victoria during the First World War. More
London, J. Miles & Co. Ltd., Printers to His Majesty The King, 1915. The front cover of the programme is inscribed and signed by 'Corpl W. Vaughan Edwards, 2nd Batt AIF, KGH London'. 1844 Corporal Edwards was recuperating at the King George Hospital, London after receiving gunshot wounds in action..... More
London, Harrison & Sons, 1917. The NZ and AIF Club, the Australasian Club, the Australian IF and War Chest Club, and the ANZAC Club are listed, along with another eight venues marked 'For Colonial Soldiers only'. More
The card was postmarked on 4 December 1917 at 'Army Post Office SX 13' (Eurendzik, Greece), and carries a 'Passed Censor' inkstamp. It was sent without a message (other than 'On Active Service') to a Miss Eileen Turvey in Gormanston, Tasmania. More
The caption mentions '2 Wireless Limbers, 2 cable waggons & 3 G.S. Limbers as water carts'; the 10 motorcycles and two early motor vehicles are taken as read. Part of the date (January) is present: the signal squadrons were present in Mesopotamia from 1916 to 1918. More
Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2013. More
Melbourne, Metropolitan Gas Company, [1919]. More
London, 'Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd', [1919]. The front cover artwork is by the British artist Harry Payne (1858-1927). Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 223. More
'The Darge Photographic Company had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname..... More
He was educated at Adelaide High School, and 'was one of the first cadets to enter the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Federal Capital Territory, in 1911.... In April 1950 Rowell [was appointed Chief of General Staff], a significant event in the army's history inasmuch as he was the first Duntroon..... More
Images include a row of rough graves; heavily damaged buildings; numerous Army camp scenes, including interiors of tents and huts (one captioned 'Church Army Hut Etaples ? 1918/19'), and a priest celebrating mass; a large mural of 41 General Hospital; Greek soldiers; routine peasant life, including laden camels, Muslim women..... More
Sydney, RSSILA (NSW Branch), 1928. The souvenir publication contains the program for the AIF Costume Comedy Company's events (two pages), the extensive menu, the lengthy toast list, and the song sheet (two pages). More
[Melbourne, 1916]. Horace Ernest Stevens (1876-1950), for many years 'closely identified with the musical life of this city ... has enlisted for service with the Australian Expeditionary Forces, and will sail early in May'. The concert, under the patronage of Madame Melba, was organised for 2 May 1916. Stevens had..... More
Victorian-born Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan (1853-1926) completed his medical training in England in 1875, after which he served as a military surgeon for the Turkish government. 'In mid-1876 he served in the final stages of the Turko-Servian war and then in the Russo-Turkish campaign of 1877-78. He spent more than..... More
All but three of the captions are signed 'Fred' or initialled 'F' (but all captions are in the same hand); seven are numbered in series. Seven images show Australian, New Zealand and Allied troop movements in central Cairo around the coronation of the newly-installed puppet Sultan Hussein Kamel (misidentified as..... More
A small inscription in red ink at the foot of the programme proper reads 'held at #16 Sqdn. near Tang' Sep '17'. 'Tang' is presumably Tangmere, 50 miles south-west of London, where the RFC founded a training aerodrome in 1917. Major Charles Frederick Algernon Portal (1893-1971) 'was promoted to temporary..... More
The booklet was sent by 2901 Private Ernest Stewart, 7th Battalion, to his sister Lill in Hamilton, Victoria. He has written the date '26/10/15' on the front cover, and his address at the time was Zeitoun Camp, Egypt. He has written messages to her on blank pages at the front..... More
Napier, Venables Print (for Napier Borough Council), 1919. Napier-born Percy Valentine Storkey (1893-1969) has signed the card above his portrait: 'P.V. Storkey Capt. 19th Bn. AIF'. Signatures of the mayor, H. Hill, and two others are also present. 'On 7 April 1918 the 5th Brigade, of which the 19th Battalion..... More
Sydney, Jas. C. Cruden [Photographer], [1917]. The photograph is signed 'Yours Les 19-12-17'; the verso of the folder is inscribed by him 'To Good Old Tom in the Good old way and to bid "Aurevoir". May you soon follow....'. More
An unusual grouping, with a variety of cap badges and headgear (Australian, New Zealand and British); the majority of the soldiers sport a white hat-band, indicative of the personnel of an officer cadet unit, of which there over 20 in the UK during the First World War (information courtesy of..... More