Brisbane, Government Printer, 1899. Queensland Parliamentary Paper A 35-1899. A comprehensive document with details of the troops proposed to be sent and the nature of their engagement in the war. Offered with five similar and related papers of the same year: 1. Approval by Legislative Assembly of Proposal to Despatch..... More

Melbourne, A.H. Massina & Co., 1900. Provenance: 'E.C. Tatchell' is written in pencil on the front flyleaf. Captain Edward Charles Tatchell was Commander of E Company, 5th Contingent, Victorian Mounted Rifles. Loosely inserted is a vintage snapshot (approximately 75 × 85 mm) showing (presumably) Tatchell in uniform, with a much..... More

Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, [1901]. 'Being a brief account of the operations of the three Columns under the command of Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson, Col. Hickie, and Col. Williams ... in the south-western portion of the Transvaal, May to October, 1901, inclusive' (drop sub-title). In 1939, Herman..... More

Sydney, Printed and Published by H.T. Dunn & Co., 1902. Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 1864-1902) was executed by firing squad in Pretoria for murder on 27 February 1902. The first notice we have found relating to this short work appeared less than three months later. A...... More

Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, etc. 1902. 'The operations against the Boers in the neighbourhood of Klerksdorp, which were begun on Sunday night, March 23rd, 1902, were very cleverly conceived and executed.... The object of the operations was to form a long line of mounted men with the..... More

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

Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The position of prime minister in New Zealand was known as premier until 1907. Robert Seddon (1845-1906) was premier from 1893; he died in office. He 'attracted much publicity for his outspokenness about the South African war: he visited South..... More

Hobart, S.G. Loone, 1905. With the ownership signature of Alice Wallack, Kingston Beach (Tasmania), presumably a relative of Lieutenant-Colonel E.T. Wallack of the Tasmanian Permanent Staff, 'sent out to South Africa as a special service officer. He was placed in command of the First Tasmanian Bushmen to take them to..... More

London, John Bale, 1912. More

North Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1988. 'The first comprehensive account of the defence forces of the Australian colonies - from the 1830s to Federation in 1901. More

London, Cassell, 1992. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton [OAM], his ownership signature and inscribed date of purchase. More

Yarrawonga, Yarrawonga-Mulwala R&SL Sub-Branch, 1995. Not least, the 59th Battalion, the 8th Light Horse, and the Boer War. More

South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2001. The Australian Centenary History of Defence. Volume 1. More

Barnsley, Pen and Sword Military, 2006. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton [OAM], and his inscribed date of purchase. More

McCrae, Slouch Hat Publications, 2007. Not least, Dods was at Sunnyside with the Queensland Mounted Infantry, at Anzac with the 5th Light Horse Regiment, and the Somme with the 1st Division AIF. More

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, 'The Bushmen's Contingent at Camp, Langwarrin', illustrated in 'George..... More

Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) is well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). There are five studio portraits and one taken outdoors, with White astride a...... More