Prisoners of War From Gallipoli to Korea
Ringwood, Viking/ Penguin, 1992. More
Ringwood, Viking/ Penguin, 1992. More
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1918. The last five sonnets are war poems: August 1914, Anzac, Glory, Peace, and Roses. More
London, Panora Limited, September 1918. 'In the pre-war period, an officer or NCO seeking to become an instructor would have attended a six-week preliminary course at a Command gymnasium followed by an intensive and wide-ranging four-month course ... at the HQ School Aldershot; this in turn was followed by a...... More
Balmain, Clarion Editions, 1992. More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993 (first paperback edition)/ 1993. More
The negative is captioned 'Anzac Day 25-4-17'. Apart from trifling surface loss to a tiny section in the blank foreground, the item is in very good condition. The verso contains a short letter from an Australian serviceman (surname Baker) convalescing in Exeter ('23.5.17. 5 V.A. Hospital Exeter Engl.'). This Voluntary..... More
[London, no imprint details], 1937. The entire programme looks to be the product of a well-meaning amateur. The text is obviously hand-set and hand-printed, and it is written in an engaging chatty style, commencing thus: 'Six war-blinded Australian ex-Servicemen will be in the contingent of Australians and New Zealanders who..... More
McCrae, R.J. and S.P. Austin, 1989 [first edition]. Signed by the author on the title page, and with an inscription by Lieutenant-Colonel George Frederick Smith, DSO, ED, MID (1905-1995). Too young to serve in World War One, Smith 'served with 6 Infantry Brigade in 1939; as a major with 2/6..... More
Sydney, Trustees of the National Art Gallery of NSW, 1915. The first plate is a photographic view of the Gallery building; the others reproduce paintings by Arthur Burgess, George Lambert, William Lister Lister, Fred Mahony, A. de Neuville (France), and Sir Luke Fildes (Britain). The only war-related images are one..... More
Sydney, B. Jackson & Co., [1919]. Unusually, the biographical entries in the book are grouped together by the places the men came from (although this is useful in a parochial sense), and there are many family groups. With very few exceptions, all the men commemorated here appear to come from..... More
Adelaide, [AAMC Reunion Committee], 1938. 'Ever since the cessation of hostilities of the Great War, 1914-1918, it has been the wish of Australian Army Medical Corps AIF ex-servicemen in South Australia, that we should have some permanent record of our Fallen Comrades, and to those who have "Passed On" since..... More
Melbourne (Volume I) and Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1938 (second edition)/ 1930 and 1940. The first two volumes of the three-volume medical companion to the twelve-volume 'Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-1918'. The third one, 'Problems and Services', was published in 1943; it is very scarce. Arthur Graham..... More
Wendover, 'Photo by Panora Ltd., 60 Doughty St. W.C.', March 1918. The Australian War Memorial has the following caption on an example of this impressive group photograph in its collection: 'Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England, 1918-03-11. Large group portrait of officers, cadets, NCOs and men of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), together..... More
The framer's pencilled notes indicate that the original client's name was Butler, almost certainly Harry Butler himself during his brief years in Adelaide between the war and his early death in 1924. An article from the Adelaide 'Advertiser' for Tuesday 21 May 1946 records Butler's own description of this scene..... More
Three oblique views are captioned in the negative, recording the location and date (7 August, 8 August and 17 December 1918); all have reference numbers starting with '7.T.S.A.A.'. The fourth photograph, possibly a composite of several vertical images, includes a printed caption ('Leighterton Aerodrome. Scale ... 20-11-18 - 5000 ft')..... More
We suggest the eighteen members of the squad come from the Aeroplane Repair Section of the Australian Flying Corps based at Leighterton. We purchased this photograph with a small group of aerial photographs of Leighterton Aerodrome, about which the Australian War Memorial has this to say: 'By 1917 the Australian..... More
The aircraft appear to be a Sopwith Camel and two Avro 504s (specific models not determined). Offered with two other photographs of a biplane (possibly a Sopwith Camel) in the air: one is silhouetted above billowing sunlit clouds (147 × 199 mm, printed without margins); the other is shown flying..... More
All images are captioned in the negative. All eight oblique views carry the same date, 25 June 1918, preceded by 'A3 AEO *** 62°' (*** ranges from 110 to 121). Place names on them are Hamel, Hamel Wood, Somme, Accroche Wood, Tailloux Wood, and Vaire Wood. The vertical images are..... More
The vintage gelatin silver photographs are in excellent condition; two are 130 × 180 mm (taken on 22 July); one is 180 × 240 mm (taken on 14 August). The large one is a slightly raking view of the village, taken from a height of 400 metres; the substantial shell..... More
London, "The Bystander" Contemporary ownership signature and details dated 5 April 1917. More
Cairo, F. Diemer (printed by John Swain & Son, Ltd., London), [1914]. Provenance: 'Chas. Barrett. Cairo, 24/5/18' is written in ink on the inside front cover. Charles Leslie Barrett (1879-1959), naturalist and journalist, enlisted in June 1916 'in the Australian Imperial Force and joined the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance which..... More
London, H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1919. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
London, H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1918. Loosely inserted is a small mimeographed slip reading 'With the Author's Compliments'. James (later Sir James) Barrett (1862-1945), a leader of the medical profession in Melbourne and an able publicist, was Assistant Director of Medical Services, Australian Forces, in Egypt until August 1915..... More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1992. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934 (five volumes), 1935 (three volumes), 1936 (one volume), 1938 (two volumes), and 1942 (one volume). The sixth volume is the first and only edition of 1942, and the others are mixed editions ranging from the second (Volumes 2, 3, 9, and 10) to the fourth..... More