Just Wanted To Be There. Australian Service Nurses, 1899-1999
Canberra, Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs, 1999. Includes sections on the Boer War, World War I and World War II. More
Canberra, Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs, 1999. Includes sections on the Boer War, World War I and World War II. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1992. More
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
[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
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
Inscribed on the verso 'To dear Mother, with the Original's love'. More
Hobart, S.G. Loone, 1905. Dornbusch 33; Fielding and O'Neill, page 126; Hackett, page 132. More
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
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices'..... 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
[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ 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 1st Scottish Horse was one of two volunteer Scottish regiments raised in South Africa during the war; it saw considerable action in the Western Transvaal, especially in the battles at Moedwil, Vlakfontein, and Braakenlaagte. Preambles to these self-titled poems..... 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. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... 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
The letter comes 'From No. 96 VMR on active Service South Africa', and is addressed to his cousin, Miss E. Kirwood (Eva) in Glenferrie, Victoria. After he deals at length with the squabbles over the fate of some stamps he had sent, he explains in even greater detail what occurred..... More
Loftus, Australian Military History Publications, 2000/ 1992. Cover title: 'Elands River Siege, 1900'. Australians in the Boer War series. More
Hectorville, Book Agencies of Adelaide Pty Ltd, 1980. Harry 'The Breaker' Morant' was the only Bush-Balladist to be executed, here his finest poems are set to music and emerge as songs. More
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2001. The Australian Centenary History of Defence. Volume 1. 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
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
Yarrawonga, Yarrawonga-Mulwala R&SL Sub-Branch, 1995. Not least, the 59th Battalion, the 8th Light Horse, and the Boer War. 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