Guilty or Innocent? The Gordon Bennett Case
Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1992. Inscribed, 'To Colonel Chittleborough, The issue of justice and a fair hearing', and signed in ink by the author. More
Militaria
The Story of a Battalion
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
Corvettes. Little Ships for Big Men
Budgewoi, Kingfisher, 1995. Includes 108 pages which provide a brief history of each Australian-built corvette, based on material supplied by the RAN and the RAN Corvettes Association. 'In the scale of naval size corvettes were pygmies, but they performed like giants' (subtitle). More
Derrick V.C.
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
The Civil War
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2006/ 1928. Loeb Classical Library Number 220. More
An invitation to a 'hearty welcome' to 'Our old C.O., Col. Scott' by the author of the regimental history, 'With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War' (1924)
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
![Item #129563 'Barambah' Souvenir. June - July 1918 [cover title]. HMAT 'Barambah', RQM Sergeant...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129563_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685328075)
'Barambah' Souvenir. June - July 1918 [cover title]
At Sea, The Editors (and printed by Cape Times Ltd., Printers, Capetown), 1918. The souvenir of the return voyage 'to our "Bright Australia" of several Nursing Sisters and Troops, most of whom have taken part in active operations on various fronts of this world war' (the introduction). The editors 'regret..... More
The Limber Log, 1917
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
The Book of the 'Ballarat'. Left Australia, 19 February - Torpedoed Anzac Day, 25 April, 1917 - With a Few Laughs in Between [cover title]
London, Wightman & Co., Old Westminster Press [Printers], [1917]. HMAT A70 'Ballarat' was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel on 25 April 1917 and sank the next day without loss of life. 'This souvenir was practically ready for publication on the eve of the disaster to the..... More
The 23rd. The Voice of the Battalion. Volume 2, Number 3. 15th November, 1918
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
![Item #129555 A Tale of Two Quotas. SS 'Beltana'. Devonport [UK] to Australia, June-July 1919....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129555_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685328055)
A Tale of Two Quotas. SS 'Beltana'. Devonport [UK] to Australia, June-July 1919
Sydney, O'Loughlin Bros. (for the Editorial Committee), [1919]. The quotas, Numbers 30 and 31, for repatriation to Australia on HMAT A72 'Beltana', were from the 4th and 5th Divisions; with a six-page 'Tentative Nominal Roll'. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
Dragropes. Souvenir Number. [New South Wales and Queensland Field Artillery (cover subtitle)]
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
Aussie Illustrated Fragments. HMAT 'Port Darwin'. Returning to Australia. 32 Quota [cover title]
Sydney, Finn Brothers, Printers, [1919]. A souvenir of the repatriation voyage of the troopship 'Port Darwin' in June and July 1919. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
'In the Dawning of the Day'. In Memoriam, J.D. Burns, Late Corporal 21st Battalion, 6th Brigade, AIF. Born 18th June 1895. Killed in Action 18th September 1915 [cover title]
[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
![Item #129550 Homeward on HMT [sic] A14. March, 1918. HMAT 'Euripides'](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129550_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685328039)
Homeward on HMT [sic] A14. March, 1918
Sydney, Printed by John Sands Limited, [1918]. 'A Record of the return to Australia of 1,500 members of the AIF' in February-March 1918. More than the standard fare: the last twenty pages contain the complete nominal roll of the officers and men on board. This copy belonged to one of..... More
Remnants from Randwick. Compiled by the Committee for the Patients of the 4th A.G. Hospital
Sydney, printed by Arthur McQuitty and Co. [and distributed by Tyrrell’s Limited], [1919, re-issue in boards]/ 1919. A superior re-issue in boards (possibly for presentation) of 'Remnants from Randwick. N[umber] 2. No. 4 Australian General Hospital, 1919'. Contents include memoirs, short stories, verse, jokes, cartoons and drawings (not least, by..... More
![Item #129546 Souvenir. Australia Day, August 28th, 1915. Charters Towers [cover title]. Charters...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129546_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685328028)
Souvenir. Australia Day, August 28th, 1915. Charters Towers [cover title]
Charters Towers, 'Presented to the Charters Towers Patriotic Committee, by the Staff and Proprietary of "The Northern Miner"', 1915. An advertisement for the souvenir appeared in the local paper, 'The Northern Miner' on Thursday 2 September 1915: 'Patriotic Day Souvenir.... To be sold for one shilling each.... a rare production..... More
Tramway Board. Roll of Honour. List of Employees enlisted for Active Service to 30th June, 1917, and of Those who have made the Supreme Sacrifice for the Empire... [cover title]
Melbourne, Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., Printers, 1917. The lists contain the names of 26 men who died on active service, and 236 other men who were on (or had seen) active service. The tramways occupation and military unit is given alongside each name. More
![Item #129540 Vaucluse Red Cross Branch, 1914-1919. [Five Years of Service (cover subtitle)]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129540_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685328018)
Vaucluse Red Cross Branch, 1914-1919. [Five Years of Service (cover subtitle)]
North Sydney, Winn & Co., Printers, [1919]. More
Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the ANZAC Landing at Gallipoli
Sydney, The Premier's Department, 1990. Loosely inserted is a processed letter on NSW Premier Department letterhead (slightly creased and marked) presenting the book 'for inclusion in your Sub-Branch library'. The front flyleaf carries a signature similar to the two facsimile signatures of Nick Greiner (then Premier of NSW) present in..... More
Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire. Portraits and Biographies of Australians in the Great War
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
Queenslanders who fought in the Great War
Brisbane, Printed by Besley & Pike Limited, [circa 1919]. The certificate, presented on 8 September 1915 to C.F. Nielsen (3208 Sapper Charles Frederick Nielsen, 4th Field Company Engineers), was a 'token of esteem, and admiration' tendered to him 'for his self sacrifice, and Patriotism in joining the gallant band who..... More
National Bank of Australasia Limited. Record of War Service of Bank and Staff, 1914-1919
Melbourne, Osboldstone and Company, 1921. A lavish memorial volume, and of considerable intrinsic value, with war service details under each portrait (arranged with only three exceptions in strict alphabetical order). Two of the exceptions are the VC winners. Lieutenant Rupert Moon of the 58th Battalion (Bullecourt, May 1917) 'resigned from..... More
A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and published by 'The Palestine News'
London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1919 (second edition)/ 1919 (in Cairo). One of 16,000 copies printed so that members of the EAF 'may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they played a part' (preface). The work is now mostly collected..... More
Australian Cavalry. The NSW Lancer Regiment and First Australian Horse
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1901. This history of these two cavalry units, from their foundation through to the end of the Boer War, is 'undoubtedly a regimental record, but it is something more - it is an attempt to explain, and to some extent combat, the unreasoning prejudice which has..... More