Melbourne, Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd., 1919. The author was a Catholic priest attached to the 48th Battalion as chaplain; he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Dornbusch 309; Fielding and O'Neill, page 230; Trigellis-Smith 246. More

[Adelaide], Blackened Billy Books, 2014 (third, revised edition)/ 1986. 'The major events and conversations recorded in this true story are taken from evidence given in court hearings'. Formery titled 'Cloud over the Gammon'. A true story of murder near Grindell's hut in the lonely Gammon Ranges of South Australia during..... More

Adelaide, Rigby, 1982. Farquhar fought at 'Tobruk, El Alamein, Sattelburg and in Borneo, where he was killed in action on the island of Tarakan'. This account uses Derrick's own diaries. More

London, The Travel Book Club, 1939 [first thus]/ 1938. Provenance: Dr Malcolm Evans, with his purchase receipt mounted on the front pastedown, and his ownership label on the front free endpaper. Evans was a part of 'the 1957 team stationed at Horseshoe Island on one of the Falklands Island Dependency..... More

Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts/ Ure Smith, 1978 (second, amended and corrected, edition)/ 1973. With a one-page foreword to this edition by Ronald Berndt (who has also added references which bring the book up to date). Aside from the editors, contributors include Catherine H. Berndt, Catherine Ellis..... More

Perth, Fred Wm. Simpson, Government Printer, 1939. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink ownership signature on the front cover and his occasional pertinent highlighting and ink annotations. With an appendix by Dorothy Carroll on 'Sand Plain Soils from the Yilgarn Goldfield'..... More

Canberra, L.F. Johnston, Government Printer for ANZAAS, 1938. More

The invitation, headed '9th L.H.O.C.A.' (9th Light Horse Old Comrades Association), invites members to give a hearty welcome to the old commanding officer (Colonel William Henry Scott, 1881-1960), who 'will be in Adelaide for a few days this month on a visit to his son'. The date for the event..... 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

Ypres/Broodseinde, 'Printed in the Field', 1918. The National Library of Australia records that this well-produced periodical was published fortnightly or monthly from Number 1 (September 1917) to Volume 2, Number 11 (April 1919). Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More

London, G. Harmsworth & Co., Printers, [circa 1917]. 'This Booklet is intended as a Souvenir of the eventful, and, on the whole, happy time we spent together; both in our dear land, Australia, and during the voyage to England' (foreword). Provenance: 'O'Sullivan | Mosman' is written in pencil on the..... More

[Melbourne], printed by Brown, Prior and Co., [1916]. James Drummond Burns was a Scotch College alumnus; this is strongly reinforced in the contents. There are also 19 pages of his verse, including his well-known patriotic poem, 'For England'. More