For Fuhrer and Fatherland. Military Awards of the Third Reich
San Jose, R. James Bender, 1976 (first edition). More
San Jose, R. James Bender, 1976 (first edition). More
[Kingswood, Women's Australian National Services of South Australia, 1981]. 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
Melbourne, Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria (for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia), 1914. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 26 of 1914; only 950 copies. Training, results of examinations, sanitation, tables of admissions and diseases and the like; one statistic soon to change was the..... More
[Brisbane], Simpson, Halligan & Co. Pty. Ltd., 1943. The 141 competitors are listed; the majority are American servicemen. More
No pertinent details - when, where and why the photograph was taken, and by whom - are known, and the later pencilling on the verso (a price and what seems to be a name) adds nothing. From first principles, we suggest the 1860s, 'somewhere in England', a training exercise, and..... More
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972 (first edition). The half-title is inscribed by the author 'To Peter Osborn, who invited me for a drink. Hugh Atkinson. Leura [NSW], 6th June '78'). Loosely inserted is a note from the author's wife Phoebe, written on the same day. 'Dear Father Peter: I do hope..... 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
The 18 signatures include at least five by women (Jill, Trudy, Jocelyn, Helen and Lucy), suggesting the event took place in Australia (most probably around Melbourne). 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
[Brighton, City of Brighton, 1940]. The pamphlet comprises facsimile copies of two circulars (dated 6 June and 28 June 1940) from E.M. Young, Mayor of Brighton, accompanying draft proposals (the first dated 1 October 1939) for a volunteer Municipal Reserve, similar to Britain's Home Guard, to be administered and resourced..... More
McCrae, Slouch Hat Publications, 2002. More
Many of the photographs appear to have been taken at Vickers' Brooklands factory near Weybridge, Surrey (the famous banked race track is visible in many images), and possibly also at the nearby Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire. Nearly all are dated, ranging from 1937 to 1946. The gelatin silver prints..... 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
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
Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1982. Memorials which are as much architecture as sculpture; numerous illustrations, many in colour. More
London, "The Bystander" Contemporary ownership signature and details dated 5 April 1917. More
Kent Town, The Author, in conjunction with Avonmore Books, 2017. Milingimbi island 'had fighter aircraft to defend it and Army troops on the ground. The island became a refuelling base for RAAF bombers as they refuelled and attacked the Japanese who had become entrenched in the islands north of Australia'..... More
Duntroon, History Department, Faculty of Military Studies, 1975. The 'Eden' in the title is the town in NSW. More
Melbourne, Macmillan, 1985. Not least, a chapter on Morotai in 1945, and flying the Australian POWs home. More
Melbourne, Macmillan, 1985. Not least, a chapter on Morotai in 1945, and flying the Australian POWs home. More