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Melbourne Legacy
Decorative object - Medallion, Commemorating Australians in Military Service, 2007
... Commemorating Australians in Military Service ...A gold coloured medallion in a black velour box it appears to have been issued by Weapons of War which was a series of 52 DVDs. It was found in the archive cupboards and may have been collected due to the connection with commemorating the military service of ADF personnel. Legacy was founded by returned servicemen of the first world war and Legatees were all ex-service personnel until the 1990s.A record that Legatees collected items that commemorated military service.Round gold tone medallion with colour image of a bugler and red poppies and an embossed Australian Army rising sun. In a black velour box.Embossed 'Weapons of War. A history of military tools and machines' on reverse. Text 'Commemorating Australians in Military Service' around the outside, plus a rising sun symbol with 'The Australian Army' underneath.medallion, army, souvenir -
Melbourne Legacy
Postcard, Australians Advancing from Villers-Brettonneux. August 8th 1918, 1918
... Australians Advancing from Villers-Brettonneux. August 8th ...A greeting card published by the Australian Comforts Fund for Christmas and New Year 1918-19. It shows important battles involving Australians in 1918. A painting of Villers Brettonneux battle on 8 August 1918 by Captain Will Longstaff who was an A.I.F. War Artist with an explanation of the offensive. Also a painting of the capture of Hamel Village on 4th July 1918 where Australians were assisted by a detachment of Americans. The war artist was A. Pearse. Was with other World War 1 memorabilia that has come from J.B. McLean. Some of the text: 'On the night of 24th August 1918, the Australians made a daring and clever counter attack in the darkness, recaptured Villers-Brettonneux, stopped the German advance and saved Amiens. This, and the Battle of Hamel, were only a prelude to the smashing advance which commenced on 8th August. Extract from Australian Corps Order, issued on 7th August:- "For the first time in the history of this Corps all five Australian Divisions will tomorrow engage in the largest and most important battle operation ever undertaken by the Corps." 85,000 Australians were engaged (with Canadians on their right and British Divisions on their left), supported by powerful artillery, tanks and aeroplanes. In this battle 7,000 prisoners, 150 guns with an immense number of machine guns and war material were captured. On August 31st and September 1st and 2nd Mont St. Quentin and Peronne fell to the Australians in three days, defeating the flower of the Prussian Guard.'A example of publications made for the troops in World War 1.A greeting card published for the Australian Comforts Fund in 1918.Greetings from Billworld war one, souvenir -
Greensborough Historical Society
Postage Stamps - Digital Image, Famous Australians, Aviators: First Day Cover, 16/04/1978
... Famous Australians, Aviators: First Day Cover ...Digital image of Australian postage stamps, Famous Australian Aviators: First Day Cover, stamped at Greensborough in 1978. Part of a collection of miscellaneous historical images.Digital image of first day cover and stamps, colour."Australia Post Covers: Famous Australian Aviators." Franked:"16 APR 1978 Greensboroughl"postage stamps, first day envelopes, aviators -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph mounted, The Swiss Studio, Funeral of Roy Rutley aka Rattley (Apprentice) of Barque Metropolis, 08/08/1914
... The Swiss Studio ...Barque Metropolis was possibly that of the 1887 4 masted barque built by R & J Evans, Liverpool. Officers of the Barque Metropolis are also joined by crew of the Penryhn Castle in port at the time. The ladies on the far right of the funeral party may be relatives but more likely to be representatives from the Mission to Seamen offering sympathy to fellow crew members and honouring the burial of the apprentice, Ray Rattley name also reported in the LHLG newsletter as Rutley. The Apprentice was ill after arriving from S. America in August 1914 and was taken to a local hospital but died the following day. The Mission chaplain attended him.The image of the burial is significant in the depiction of a multi-cultural crew and the presence of local women representing and symbolising the concern and sympathy felt for the apprentice's family and the plight of young seafarers far from home ports. The inscription with identifying names provides a valuable chronological link with seafarers and clergy attending the burial and funeral. Black and white photographic print adhered to mount board with handwritten inscription identifying some of the people depicted photographed while attending an internment and funeral service.Inscriptions in black ink along the lower edge of the mount beneath Photograph: Left to right names of crew and chaplain see image.at Lwr left printed in cursive : 'The Swiss Studios' and at right corner: "Melbourne" on reverse: in Pencil handwritten cursive " To Rev A G Goldsmith / from Capt P Jones / Barque Metropolis " roy rutley, barque metropolis, funeral, burial -
Clunes Museum
Ephemera - CALENDAR, NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK, AUSTRALIANS AT WORK 1835 - 1930, 1991
... AUSTRALIANS AT WORK 1835 - 1930 ...EACH MONTH HAS A REPRODUCTION OF A DIFFERENT PAINTING BY AUSRALIAN ARTISTS INCLUDING A COPY OF EDWIN STOCQUELER'S WORK OF AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGERS CA 1855 NOTABLY, JAMES ESMOND IS REFERRED TO AS THE FINDER OF GOLD AT CLUNES, VICTORIA IN 1855NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK CALENDAR 1991local history, document, calendar -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Australians: Our lives through time. Volume 1, 1988_
... Australians: Our lives through time. Volume 1 ...A history text published for Australia's bi-centenary in 1988. Looks at the social history of Australia.Shows the development of the Australian culture over 200 years.Soft cover. 256 pages, black and white illus., maps.Cover illustration of Charles Hill's "The Proclamation of South Australia"australia history, australia social conditions, libby tudball -
Bendigo Military Museum
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER, AUSTRALIAN SPECIAL EDITION, THE AUSTRALIAN/ SPECIAL EDITION/ THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN SPECIAL EDITION/0CTOBER3-4 1992, THE AUSTRALIANS WHO DIED IN VIETNAM”, 1992
... THE AUSTRALIANS WHO DIED IN VIETNAM” ...“500/ THE /AUSTRALIANS /WHO /DIED /IN /VIETNAM”Newspaper- off white paper, all pages with plastic laminate. Black and white print and photographs. Pages 1-20‘500 THE AUSTRALIANS WHO DIED IN VIETNAM “newspaper, history, vietnam -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Book, Paul Hamlyn, A Pictorial History of Australians at War, 1970
... A Pictorial History of Australians at War ...Re Borneo Confrontation. On page 262 is a photo of Ferret Scout Car with Australian crew commander (4/19 PWLH Regiment Sergeant) Caption : " Several Australians joined the British Life Guards serving in Borneo. This photo taken in 1966 at the end of Confrontation shows British and Australian soldiers who stayed on in Malaysia, at the base camp near SerembahHard covered book, 323 pages. Photos, drawings and narratives depicting Australians at war from 1885 to 1970history australian army -
Greensborough Historical Society
Postage Stamps - Digital Image, Famous Australians: First Day Cover, 16/11/1970
... Famous Australians: First Day Cover ...Digital image of Australian postage stamps, Famous Australians: First Day Cover, stamped at Briar Hill in 1970. Part of a collection of miscellaneous historical images.Digital image of first day cover and stamps, colour."Famous Australians. First Day of Issue" Franked:"16NO70 Briar Hill"postage stamps, first day envelopes, briar hill -
Bendigo Military Museum
Souvenir - NEWSPAPERS, SOUVENIR VIETNAM, 500 The Australians Who Died in Vietnam, C.1992
... 500 The Australians Who Died in Vietnam ...Folder with red & white cover & black & white photo on both front & back. Folder contains copy of The Weekend Australian, The Weekend Australian Review, The Australian Focus, The Business Australian, all dated 3-4.10.1992.documents - newspapers, military history - army, kia vietnam -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Digital Photograph, Marguerite Marshall, Jesse Tree playing the Didgeridoo and Swiss Hang Drum at St Andrews Market, 29 March 2008
... Jesse Tree playing the Didgeridoo and Swiss Hang Drum at St ...Published: Nillumbik Now and Then / Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p175 It’s Saturday morning and thousands of people are visiting St Andrews Market at the corner of Heidelberg-Kinglake Road and Proctor Street. It’s hard to find a park. Cars are banked up along the narrow road and crammed in a nearby parking area. Yet, at the market, people look relaxed and happy amongst the yellow box gums on the site where the Wurundjeri people used to gather. Stone artefacts unearthed there by Koorie researcher, Isabel Ellender, indicate the site was once a Wurundjeri meeting place, according to Aboriginal Affairs Victoria.1 Acoustic sounds mingle with quiet conversations. A guitarist blows a mouth organ while his bare toes tickle chimes. A tiny busker, perhaps five years old, plays a violin while sounds of a harp emerge from the hall. One stallholder, selling delicious-looking pastries, chats to another in Spanish, then to me in broad Australian. ‘I was born in Fitzroy but my mother came from Mexico and my dad from Serbia,’ she smiles. A New Zealander fell in love with Mongolia and now imports their hand-made embroidered clothes and Yurts (tents) and runs adventure tours. A young woman visited Morocco and when friends admired the shoes she bought, she decided to import them and sell them at the market. Oxfam sells Fair Trade toys and clothes and displays a petition to Make Poverty History. Other stalls sell Himalayan salt, jewellery made from seeds from northern Australia, glass paper-weights from China as well as locally grown vegetables, flowers and organic freshly baked bread. A woman sits in a state of bliss under the hands of a masseur. Another offers Reiki or spiritual healing. A juggler tosses devil sticks – ‘not really about the devil,’ he smiles. This skill was practised thousands of years ago in Egypt and South America he says. At the Chai Tent people lounge on cushions in leisurely conversation. The idea for the market was first mooted among friends over a meal at the home of famous jazz and gospel singer Judy Jacques.2 Jacques remembers a discussion with several local artists including Marlene Pugh, Eric Beach, Les Kossatz, Ray Newell and Peter Wallace. ‘We decided we wanted a meeting place, where all the different factions of locals could meet on common ground, sell their goodies and get to know one another,’ Jacques recalls. They chose the site opposite another meeting place, St Andrews Pub. A week later Jacques rode her horse around the district and encouraged her neighbours to come along to the site to buy or sell. On February 23, 1973, about 20 stallholders arrived with tables. They traded ‘second-hand clothes, vegetables, meat, cheese, eggs, chickens, goats, scones, tea, garden pots and peacock feathers’. Now around 2000 people visit each Saturday. People usually linger until dusk. The market – with around 150 stalls of wares from a wide variety of cultures – stands alongside Montsalvat as the most popular tourist attraction in Nillumbik. By the 1990s St Andrews Market was in danger of being loved to death, as the site was becoming seriously degraded. The market was spreading in all directions and the degradation with it. A local council arborist’s report in 1994 noted exposed tree roots from erosion and compaction. The Department of Sustainability and Environment threatened to close the market if the degradation was not rectified. After many months of research, discussions and lobbying by a few residents, the council formed a Committee of Management, with an Advisory Committee, and introduced an Environment Levy. The State Government, the council and the market, funded terracing of the site to stop erosion, and retain moisture and nutrients. Vehicles were excluded from some sensitive areas and other crucial zones reserved for re-vegetation. Volunteers planted more than 3000 locally grown indigenous species. The old Yellow Box trees fully recovered and are expected to give shade for many years to come.This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, didgeridoo, jesse tree, st andrews market, swiss hang drum -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Newspaper - The Sun Newspaper - Special - Dated - 6/1/1941 My War Part 12 - Bardia At Mercy of A.I.F, The Sun NewsPaper Special - Dated 6/1/1941 - Victory At Bardia - Australians in Van Of Attack
... Bardia - Australians in Van Of Attack ...Local Newspaper reporting on events of World War 2 dated 6/1/1941 = Victory At Bardia - Australians in Van Of AttackLocal Newspaper reporting on events during World War 2Local Newspaper reporting on events of World War 2 - Special - My War Part 12 - Dated 6/1/1941Enemy wilts Before Bayonets - Victory At Bardia - Australians in Van Of Attackvictory at bardia - australians in van of attack, local newspaper dated 6/1/1041 -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Macdougall, A.K, Australians at War: a pictorial history, 2007
... Australians at War: a pictorial history. ...Australians have fought in overseas wars for more that a century and created a legend on land, sea and in the air. This new edition of a famous pictorial history, constantly reprinted since its publication in 1991, brings their remarkable story up to date and includes an account of recent operations in Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq.Australians At War - A Pictorial History: Updated edition: Australia's battles from the Boer War to Iraq, 2007.Australians have fought in overseas wars for more that a century and created a legend on land, sea and in the air. This new edition of a famous pictorial history, constantly reprinted since its publication in 1991, brings their remarkable story up to date and includes an account of recent operations in Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq.australia – history, military, world war 1914-1918 - australia, world war, 1939-1945 - australia, vietnam war (1961-1975) -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, With the Australians in Korea
... With the Australians in Korea ...With the Australians in Korea - Printed 1945 -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, Australians at Arms
... Australians at Arms ...Australians at Arms - Printed 1955 -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, Rev Samuel Manning, Swiss pictures drawn in pen and pencil
... Swiss pictures drawn in pen and pencil ...Prize awarded to Catherine Proctor for excellence in algebra and geometry in the fourth form. This was Catherine's first year at Ballarat College. During 1877 - 1891 Ballarat College accepted enrolments from female students. The school holds the original register of this period and notes that catherine Proctor entered the school in 1878 when she was 15. She went on to be awarded Dux of the female cohort in 1879. Published by The Religious Tract Society, London. "A New and Enlarged Edition". 210pp. Blue cloth with gilt drawing of "Wild Life in the Alps" framed in black spiral pictorial. Spine in heavy gilt and all page edges in gilt. Many B&W illustrations plus one full-page colour of Whymper's "Mont Blanc from above Morges". Book has the usual age markings.Book plate inside front cover: Ballarat College crest / Algebra and Geometry / Fourth form / First PRIZE / Awarded to / Catherine Proctor / CHRISTMAS 1878 / JOHN GARBUTT M A PRINCIPALcatherine-proctor, ballarat-college, girls-school, john-garbutt, 1878, book-prize -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Claudine, Or Humility the basis of All Virtues. A Swiss Tale, n.d
... Claudine, Or Humility the basis of All Virtues. A Swiss ...Red cloth binding over carboard covers, with title in gold at top edge. Black and white drawing depicting a girl and a boy seated on a part bench on the front cover, with floral decoration surrounding them. 177 pp.childrens fiction, fiction, women authors -
Benalla Art Gallery
Watercolour, Nicholas CHEVALIER, Swiss scene, 1886
... Swiss scene ...Born: St Petersurg, Russia 1828; Arrived: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1854; Lived and worked: Switzerland 1845-1848, Germany 1851-1854, Australia 1854-1865, New Zealand 1865-1866, England 1870-1902; Died: London, Middlesex, England 1902RomanticismGift of Mrs E.E. Ledger, 1985View from rustic house with two figures overlooking lake surrounded by mountains and trees. Grey brushed stained timber.Recto: Signed and dated "N.Chevalier. / 1886" in brown watercolour in l.l.c of composition; Not titledwatercolour, landscape, waterscape, building, trees, mountains, water, cabin, sunset -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Swiss Family Robinson, 1902
... Swiss Family Robinson ...Awarded as school prize to James Reilly.Hard cover, blue gold lettering. Blue embossing on the front.State School, Tatura no. 1441. Prize awarded to James A Reilly, Class 1V, Exercise. Teacher S Hill, 27th Feb. 1902. 381 pages.swiss family robinson, shipwrecked family, reilly j, tatura primary school, s hill, tatura state school, school prizes -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Nicholas Faith, Safety in Numbers: The mysterious world of Swiss banking, 1982
... Safety in Numbers: The mysterious world of Swiss banking ...Hardcover w/dust jacketwalsh st library -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, 150 anniversary of the Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve - Swiss Italian catchup, 2015
... - Swiss Italian catchup ...http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/1993 Digital imageshepburn mineral springs reserve, hepburn mineral springs, hepburn springs, 150, crowd, picnic, anniversary, celebration, community, mineral water, mineral springs, swiss italian -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Document, Leanne White, Swiss and Italian Identitites: Celebrating Heritage in Regional Australia, 2014
... Swiss and Italian Identitites: Celebrating Heritage in ...swiss/italian, swiss and italian, hepburn springs, hepburn springs swiss/italian festa -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Film - Film, DVD, Australians in the Vietnam War
... Australians in the Vietnam War. ...Coloured live footage of Australians in Vietnam.vietnam war - military helicopters, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - participation, australian -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Newspaper, 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam, 1988
... 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam. ...Newspaper article with photos & biographical information about the 500 Australians who died in Vietnam. In, the Weekend Australian Special Edition, 18 August, 1988vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- registers of dead -- australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Newspaper, 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian Newspaper 3-4 Oct 1992, 1992
... 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian ...Newspaper article with photos & biographical information about the 500 Australians who died in Vietnam. In, the Weekend Australian Special Edition. 3-4 October, 1992.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- registers of dead -- australia, newspaper -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Newspaper, 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian Newspaper 3-4 Oct 1992, 1992
... 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian ...Newspaper article with photos & biographical information about the 500 Australians who died in Vietnam. In, the Weekend Australian Special Edition. 3-4 October, 1992.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- registers of dead -- australia, newspaper -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Newspaper, 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian Newspaper 3-4 Oct 1992, 1992
... 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian ...Newspaper article with photos & biographical information about the 500 Australians who died in Vietnam. In, the Weekend Australian Special Edition. 3-4 October, 1992.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- registers of dead -- australia, newspaper -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Newspaper, 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian Newspaper 3-4 Oct 1992, 1992
... 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian ...Newspaper article with photos & biographical information about the 500 Australians who died in Vietnam. In, the Weekend Australian Special Edition. 3-4 October, 1992.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- registers of dead -- australia, newspaper -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Newspaper, 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam, 1992
... 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam. ...Newspaper article with photos & biographical information about the 500 Australians who died in Vietnam. In, the Weekend Australian Special Edition. 3-4 October, 1992.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- registers of dead -- australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Newspaper, 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian Newspaper 3-4 Oct 1992, 1992
... 500: The Australians who died in Vietnam (in The Australian ...Newspaper article with photos & biographical information about the 500 Australians who died in Vietnam. In, the Weekend Australian Special Edition. 3-4 October, 1992.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- registers of dead -- australia, newspaper