![Item #108434 Bayonets of the World. Volume 1 [to] ... Volume 4 [all published]. Bayonets, Paul...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/108434.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693961265)
Bayonets of the World. Volume 1 [to] ... Volume 4 [all published]
Kedichem, Military Collectors Service, [circa 1973, 1974, 1974, and 1976]. [4 items]. More
Militaria
The Anzac Book. Written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac
Melbourne, Sun Books, 1975 (first thus)/ 1916. The Anzac Book, overseen by Bean, is one of the most significant literary achievements of the war. The first paragraph of his 'Editor's Note' makes it easy to understand why: 'This book of Anzac was produced in the lines at Anzac on Gallipoli..... More
The Home Front in Ludlow during the Second World War
Little Logaston, Logaston Press, 2010. More
Wustenbilder. Desert Images. Mapping Lawrence of Arabia
Koln, Wienand, 2011. With dozens of colour illustrations from photographs taken by the author. Text in German and English. More
Medicine and Modernity. Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Not least, one article on shell shock in World War 1, while other articles address issues raised under National Socialism: sterilization, and abortion, and the Nuremberg Doctor's Trials. More
In Search of Frank Hurley
South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1980. With numerous illustrations, some in colour. More
The 115th Infantry Regiment in World War II
Nashville, Battery Press, 1988 (reprint). The sixteenth volume in the Combat Arms Series. More
An autograph letter of condolence signed by 'Birdwood of Anzac' to the widow of Charalambos John Simopoulos (1874-1942), Greek Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1934 until his death
The letter (octavo, two pages on one leaf, dated '26 Oct. [1942], Coates, Cirencester, Glos.', on embossed House of Lords writing paper), is warm and effusive in its praise for Simopoulos and its expressions of sympathy for his widow. Apart from a single crease across the centre for posting, it..... More
An original photograph of a large group of people, including Australian officers in uniform, at a formal dinner for General Sir William Birdwood, held at Geelong on 24 March 1920
[Melbourne?], Oxford Studios, [1920]. The Melbourne 'Argus' (Wednesday 24 March 1920) contains an account of the visit. The final paragraph notes that 'In the City Hall tonight the mayor (Alderman H. Hitchcock) gave a dinner in honour of the General. There were present as guests 150 returned AIF officers who..... More
'The Fortunes of War'. The 492nd Bomb Group on Daylight Operations. Liberators in the ETO
Fallbrook, Aero Publishers, 1967. Includes illustrations from photographs, scale drawings and mission list. An Army Air Force history created and edited by Kenn C. Rust. More
The Siege at Port Arthur. The Russo-Japanese War Through the Stereoscope
Oaklands Park, The Author, 1987. Signed by the author on the title page. Also, in a small plastic bag, is a second pair of 3D viewers. More
Undertones of War
London, The Folio Society, 1989 (first thus). Introduction by Jon Stallworthy. More
Lord Methuen's Operations. A Most Successful March! Wolmaransstad & Hartebeestfontein Taken. 5000 Cattle and 15000 Sheep Captured! Battle of Hartebeestfontein Poort! A Stubborn Fight! [drop-title]
Klerksdorp, Transvaal, Printed by H.M. Guest, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer, 'Mining Record' Office, [3 March] 1901. The 'Hobart Mercury' (18 April 1901) reprints the text of this broadside in its entirety, with the following informative introductory paragraph: 'The "Mining Record", published at Klerksdorp, Transvaal, issued the following "Extra" on the..... More
A cabinet card portrait photograph of an unknown Australian officer in South Africa
Inscribed on the verso 'To dear Mother, with the Original's love'. More
![Item #136198 District Mounted Troops. Cape Colonial Forces [cover title]. Part I: Rules and...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/136198_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693535166)
District Mounted Troops. Cape Colonial Forces [cover title]. Part I: Rules and Regulations for Organization, Equipment, Pay and Allowances. Part II: Notes for Guidance of D.M.T. Officers, N.C.O.'s and Men, and Certain Rules and Regulations, Colonial Forces Act, 1892
East London, Printed by the Standard Printing Co., 1902 (revised edition). The preface states that this book 'contains the various orders which have from time to time appeared in C.D.F., L. of C., and C.C.F. orders regarding D.M.T.'s; and also in circular memorandums from heads of departments in South Africa..... More
Everlasting Silver Leaves, from Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa [cover title]
[Cape Town, possibly J.H. Robinson & Co.], circa 1900. The photograph, featuring mainly artillery shells of various sizes (some of them identified), small arms ammunition, and shrapnel (one piece marked '66 Battery'), is signed in the negative 'B.W. Canby'. To say the image is incongruous in a souvenir greeting card..... More
Extracts from Orders and Memoranda published for the Guidance of Officers, Commanding Columns and Posts in the Orange River Colony [cover title]
Bloemfontein, O.R.C., The Argus Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 1901. These extracts from 17 'Confidential Memos, etc.' left little to the imagination. Number $ simply states that 'All prisoners of war dressed in British uniforms, or when disguised in the distinctive dress worn by our troops, are to be shot..... More
An IOU between two South Australian soldiers, F.W. Belt and H.C. Hawker, while on active service in South Africa in 1900
The contract reads 'Bloemfontein | 13 Apl 1900 | I.O.U. Ten Pounds [with Ten crossed out in pencil, £15 written above it in ink, and 'Fifteen' in pencil, with both initialled in pencil by F.W. Belt] | F.W. Belt | Payable to H.C. Hawker or order'; H.C. Hawker has signed..... More
Letters from an Uitlander, 1899-1902. With introduction by Major Sir Bartle Frere
London, John Murray, 1903 [Murray's Imperial Library edition]. The letters were written to Sir Bartle Frere 'in regular succession, from a date shortly before the war broke out.... The writer is a man who has long been resident in South Africa, and has held more the position of onlooker than..... More
Parliamentary Patriotic Concert. Thursday 22d Feby 1900, Town Hall, commencing 8 o'clock [a souvenir programme]
[Melbourne], Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, 1900. Contemporary newspaper accounts record that the concert was 'in aid of the Patriotic and Bushmen's corps funds'. More
Veteran's Association of Army, Navy & Auxiliary Forces (Incorporated). Commemoration of the Men who gave their Lives for the Empire in the South African War, 1899-1902. Christchurch Cathedral, 2.30 p.m. Sunday, May 29th, 1938 [drop title]
Offered with the similar program for the fiftieth anniversary of the commemoration, held on 12 February 1950. Signs of use and age; a decent copy. [2 items]. More
A vintage photograph of a group of eleven Australian soldiers posed in front of a tent, possibly members of the (Third) 'Bushmen's Contingent at Camp, Langwarrin', Victoria, in late 1899
[Melbourne], R. McGeehan, 96 Albert St., Windsor, [circa 1899]. The second figure from the right in the front row is wearing a slouch hat with a distinctive hatband, and the brim turned up on the right side. We have discovered the same man in one of Rose's Stereoscopic Views, #2242..... More
Tasmanians in the Transvaal War
Hobart, S.G. Loone, 1905. Dornbusch 33; Fielding and O'Neill, page 126; Hackett, page 132. More
Three large vintage photographs of the unveiling of the South African War Memorial, at the corner of North Terrace and King William Street, Adelaide (then known as the National War Memorial) on 6 June 1904
The stamp of 'J. Gazard, 111 King Wm. St., Adelaide' is on the verso of one image, together with a pencilled caption reading 'The National Memorial to the SA troops who fought in South African War. Unveiled by the Governor of SA at Adelaide June 6, 1904'. One image shows..... More
![Item #121028 The Anglo-Boer War. No. 12. The Last Sweep [cover title]. Boer War, Herbert Melville...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121028_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1606530669)
The Anglo-Boer War. No. 12. The Last Sweep [cover title]
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. 'Towards the end of the war, British drives and offensives became more successful. This was due to the lines of blockhouses and wire fences which parcelled up the wide veldt into smaller areas. Also, the British were themselves using raiding..... More