The text in the book has been wholly written by serving members of the Australian Army scattered over the Commonwealth and in those places Australians are called apon to serve.Hard cover, buckram Kahki colour with light green print on front and spine, fly leaf and end papers,, illustrated khaki and white print and military equipment drawings, 204 pages plain of white paper, illustrated colour, B & W photographs, art work, line drawings and maps.books, military history, ww2

.1) Specialist wooden slide rule for use with range setting of Vickers Machine Gun. Brown varnish with black print on both sides. Two wooden slides pull out from top or bottom. There is a two foot cord at top. .2) Brown corrugated leather case for above. The flap is secured with a steel knob.Both sides: “MG MK III WHH 1940 (.303 Vickers MG for MK VII Ammn” [Ammunition])military history-army, containers, vickers

Item relates to S W ROSS VX78589, refer Cat No No 3147 for his service details. Also known as Dog Tags.Identity Discs x 3, all held together by string. .1) & .2) Pressed fibre, round, maroon colour. .3) 1/2 of octagonal, brown colour.1.) & .2) Stamped front: “VX78589 ROSS S W, Rel C-E, blood: 04” .3) Stamped front: “VX78589 ROSS S W, Rel C-E”military equipment - identification, discs

Item issued to Anthony Handson BOLTON V246007, enlisted 4.2.1942 age 29 years. Discharged 27.11.1945 with the rank of Sgt in LHQ Cartographic Coy.Brown canvas Kit Bag with 12 brass eyelets at opening.Stenciled on one side: “A H BOLTON V246007”equipment, kit bags, army

Item issued to Mavis Irene KEILLOR No 105119 WAAF, enlisted 30.12.1942 age 22 years. Discharged with the rank of Aircraftwoman Laverton Transit Departure and Reception Centre on 6.12.1945. Kit Bag, faded dark blue, 12 brass eyelets. Appears to have been dyed dark blue over the original khaki colour.Painted on side & bottom: “105119 WAAAF”equipment, kit bag, waaaf

.1) Gun sight for 25 pounder cannon. .2) Brown leather purpose made carrying case with leather straps & brass buckles. Paper label attached to closing strap..1) Stamped on front: “Dial Sight ..? JWH 1944 Serial No 1705” .2) Tooled on lid of leather case: “D [up arrow] D Case No 107 (Aust) No 1 Dial Sight FS Ltd 1942”arms - accessories, trades - leatherworking, gun sight, equipment

Flying goggles WW2, Grey metal frame on leather lining. Elastic strap with metal clips attached.uniforms raaf, military equipment, metalcraft

Items issued to Capt T McCAW VX93 enlisted in the 2nd AIF on 27.10.1939, he was discharged on 19.2.1947 with the rank of Capt in 2/2nd Field Regt. He is also listed with a Regt No 350309 so assumably he enlisted again going by the uniform on Cat No 1488.2. Service ribbons are, 39 - 45 Star, Africa Star, Pacific Star, Defence medal, British war medal, Australian Service medal, Efficiency decoration.Service dress, post WWII. .1) Trousers, kahki, waist buckles and buttons intact. .2) Shirt, light kahki, long sleeved, cotton, buttons intact, made by “Rexbilt” .3) Tie, light kahki colour .4) Jacket, Dress, Service, kahki, gold coloured metal buttons, 2 x shoulder patches “Royal Australian Artillery”, 2 x sets of “Captains rank badges, 3 to each shoulder, 2 x collar epaulette badges, 6 x service ribbons WW2 and Efficiency ribbon, 2 x “R” badges (Retired Officer) .5) Cap, peak, leather strap, RAA hat badge, kahki. .6) & .7) Socks, pair, kahki. .8) & .9) Shoes, pair black .10) Belt, kahki with brass buckle.Inside coat and pants sewn in. “M TX”. Inside hat, “Commonwealth Clothing Factories Melbourne” “S56 71/8uniforms-army, military equipment

From WW2 Model side pack of haversack, light khaki colour cotton webbing with brass buckles.hand written in ink on inside flap “Vx103705 / CPL Herbet Bacon / Epsom Vic/"military equipment - army, containers, side packs

The FULLERPHONE was invented by Capt AC Fuller British Army to resolve a “Eavesdropping” problem by the enemy in 1915. This model was introduced in 1939 and several other MK variations followed later on.Fuller phone MKIV, green wooden box with metal hinged lid, steel strapping around box & lid. Steel handles on 2 sides. Inside is the phone apparatus. On the lid inside is metal plate with instructions on use.“Fuller Phone MKIV 2005”military equpment - communications, communications - telegraphic, fuller

The wounded soldier is Bill Jeffers VX52782, 2/24th Batt 9 th Div. The soldier carrying Bill is Joe Battilana VX47314, the German soldier carrying the equipment had given himself up with the comment "I've had enough". Refer Ct No 147 for Bills service details.Photo B & W in frame copy of original for display. Set on a white background shows a German Soldier carrying equipment while an Australian soldier carries a wounded Australian. Frame is wood, gold coloured.photographs, military

Items are c. WW2 basic webbing pouches..1) Basic pouch, khaki webbing & brass fittings. .2) Basic pouch, khaki webbing & brass fittings.Printed on back of both in black ink: “MK3”military equipment - army, ccontainers, webbing, basic

.3) Arthur CowleyWebbing belt & kit. .1) Belt with shoulder straps, khaki webbing, brass fittings. .2) Shoulder strap. .3) Back pack, khaki webbing with discoloured metal fittings. .4) Gas mask pack, khaki canvas with webbing straps & metal fittings. Ventilation holes at sides..1) Stamped in ink inside surface: “ZL&T 1945” .3) Handwritten inside flap: “A Cowley” .4) Stamped inside flap: “VII RMA 1942” On press studs: “Newley Pat, 1430.22*”military equipment - army, packs, gas

Items belonged to Maxwell Lennox Matheson No 418447 RAAF. Refer Cat No 1959 for his service record..1) Emergency signaling mirror with cord and aiming post made of polished metal. .2) Bag to carry mirror made of cotton.Has instructions on the back of mirrormilitary equipment, signalling, mirror

Items relate to Clifford Alfred Cairncross RAAF. Refer 2108.7 for his service record.Clear celluloid eye shield stapled to cloth forehead band. Press studs on shield & band allows shield to wrap around eyes. Goggles fastened to head with adjustable elastic band. Elastic band joined with metal hook & ring.glasses, eyesheild, military equipment

Clarence Wilfred Curnow 2nd AIF. Refer Cat 1444, 1446.2, 1447..1) Identity Disc, round polished metal with small hole in top, engraved on both sides. .2) Identity Disc, 8 sided polished metal with two holes top and bottom engraved both sides..1 & .2) "VX100151, M, C.W CURNOW, A2"id discs, military equipment, identity discs, metalcraft, curnow

WW2 Military Field Telephone contained in a leather case with shoulder strap.Embosed on the front of the case “ SIGNAL CORPS U.S. ARMY TELEPHONE EE-8-A

Fiels telephone used in WW2.Military field telephone, with handsetMounted on front of the telephone is an identification plate with the inscriptions “REPLACE HANDSET WHEN FINISHED AND RING OFF. TELEPHONE SET “F” MK 1. STANDARD TELEPHONES AND CABLES PTY LTD SYDNEY 1943. D ^ D. Also mounted to the front of the phone is a smaller plate with inscription “ Serial No. 5971. telephone.

This trunk was donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. It is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” that includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. The trunk was used by Dr. Angus when he served as Surgeon Captain for the Australian Army during WW2. At that time his residence was in Warrnambool. His time of service was spent in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W. The portion of the paper label on the trunk that ends in an 'a' is possible the end of the word 'Bonegilla', where his trunk could have been sent. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . Its first station was in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital (a 2 bed ward at the Nelson Street Practice) from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what previously once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr Tom and his brother had worked as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He had been House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan had gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. When Dr Angus took up practice in the Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan’s old premises he obtained their extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926. A large part of this collection is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. and an ALDI sore is on the land that was once their tennis court). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served as a Surgeon Captain during WWII1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. He had an interest in people and the community They were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Trunk, handmade, from the W.R. Angus Collection. Wooden trunk, rope handles on ends, metal hinges, previously closed by nails. Trunk has labels with names and destinations. Stamped into wood on end is text from original timber. One paper label is peeling off.Metal label “Captain W. R. Angus” (black writing on white metal label). On lid in blue writing “Captain W.R. Angus”. Paper label “Captain W.R. Angus, 214 Koroit Street, Warrnambool, Victoria. V 141633 (looks like)”. Obscured label “ - - a Rail Station”.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, t.s.s. largs bay, warrnambool base hospital, flying doctor, medical treatment, surgeon captain w.r. angus, ww2 service ballarat, ww2 service bonegilla, wooden trunk, military service, trunk for personal effects storage

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