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Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Hamlyn, Anzac and Empire : the tragedy and glory of Gallipoli, 1990
The book investigates aspects not often covered fully in works on Gallipoli, including treatment of the sick and wounded, the plight of prisoners of war, and the place occupied by Australian issues in the wartime port-mortem on the campaign, the Dardanelles Commission of 1916-17. It also deals with origin of Anzac Day and the place of Gallipoli in the Australian ethos.Index, bib, notes, ill, maps, p.318.non-fictionThe book investigates aspects not often covered fully in works on Gallipoli, including treatment of the sick and wounded, the plight of prisoners of war, and the place occupied by Australian issues in the wartime port-mortem on the campaign, the Dardanelles Commission of 1916-17. It also deals with origin of Anzac Day and the place of Gallipoli in the Australian ethos.world war 1914-1918 - campaigns - gallipoli, australia - military relations - great britain -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australians at war, 2001
Australians at war is the story of a nation in wartime. It tells the compelling tale of the sufferings and sacrifice of those who served and those who waited at home and shows how the experience of war has helped to make Australia the nation it is today. Intense, moving and dramatic, Australians at War takes a journey deep into the emotional heart of the nation.Index, bib, ill, maps, p.272.non-fictionAustralians at war is the story of a nation in wartime. It tells the compelling tale of the sufferings and sacrifice of those who served and those who waited at home and shows how the experience of war has helped to make Australia the nation it is today. Intense, moving and dramatic, Australians at War takes a journey deep into the emotional heart of the nation.australia - history - military, australia - armed forces -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, St Ermin's, The secret history of PWE : the Political Warfare Executive, 1939-1945, 2002
Of all Britain's secret intelligence organizations, the least known is the Political Warfare Executive, developed to conduct psychological warfare against the Nazis. The PWE's history has now been declassified by the Cabinet Office and released, 50 years after it had been completed and consigned to Whitehall's secret archives. David Garnett's book tells of how such resourceful intellects as Richard Crossman, Sefton Delmer, Leonard Ingrams and Valentine Williams waged a covert campaign against the enemy, using such unorthodox, ingenious methods as black propaganda and "false flag" radio broadcasts. It also reveals the internal conflicts with the BBC, Special Operations Executive and the Secret Intelligence Service. Once completed, PWE's history was considered too explosive to release to the public, and even circulation within Whitehall was strictly limited because of the document's sensitivity. At best a handbook of how to undermine an adversary and at worst a tale of breathtaking incompetence and political infighting, this volume aims to add a missing dimension to recent disclosures of Britain's covert wartime operations. --Publisher. Collapse summaryIndex, bib, ill, p.496.non-fictionOf all Britain's secret intelligence organizations, the least known is the Political Warfare Executive, developed to conduct psychological warfare against the Nazis. The PWE's history has now been declassified by the Cabinet Office and released, 50 years after it had been completed and consigned to Whitehall's secret archives. David Garnett's book tells of how such resourceful intellects as Richard Crossman, Sefton Delmer, Leonard Ingrams and Valentine Williams waged a covert campaign against the enemy, using such unorthodox, ingenious methods as black propaganda and "false flag" radio broadcasts. It also reveals the internal conflicts with the BBC, Special Operations Executive and the Secret Intelligence Service. Once completed, PWE's history was considered too explosive to release to the public, and even circulation within Whitehall was strictly limited because of the document's sensitivity. At best a handbook of how to undermine an adversary and at worst a tale of breathtaking incompetence and political infighting, this volume aims to add a missing dimension to recent disclosures of Britain's covert wartime operations. --Publisher. Collapse summary world war 1939-1945 - propaganda, world war 1939-1945 - secret service -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, St Ermin's Press, The secret history of SOE : the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1945, 2000
At the end of World War II, the Cabinet Office commissioned an eminent academic, Professor William Mackenzie, to undertake a comprehensive secret history of Special Operations Executive. Given access to both personnel and surviving wartime files, Mackenzie's report was a reference document to be used by intelligence agenices in a future conflict, its audience the very elite of Whitehall insidersIndex, bib, maps, p.814.non-fictionAt the end of World War II, the Cabinet Office commissioned an eminent academic, Professor William Mackenzie, to undertake a comprehensive secret history of Special Operations Executive. Given access to both personnel and surviving wartime files, Mackenzie's report was a reference document to be used by intelligence agenices in a future conflict, its audience the very elite of Whitehall insidersworld war 1939-1945 - espionage, world war 1939 – 1945 – secret operations – britain -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Panther, Empire of the sun, 1985
The heartrending story of British boy Jim's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai--a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.p.351.fictionThe heartrending story of British boy Jim's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai--a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged. world war 1939-1945 - fiction, world war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners - japanese -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, 37/52 Australian Infantry Battalion Association, A young man's war : a history of the 37th/52nd Australian Infantry Battalion in World War Two : Battle honours South West Pacific 1943-1945, liberation of Australian New Guinea, Gusika -Fortification Point, 1992
A history of the wartime experiences of the Australian Army 37th/52nd infantry battalionsIndex, ill, maps, p.428.non-fictionA history of the wartime experiences of the Australian Army 37th/52nd infantry battalionsworld war 1939-1945 - regimental histories - australia, world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - south west pacific -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Cambridge University Press, The proud 6th : an illustrated history of the 6th Australian Division, 1939-45, 2008
Following Mark Johnston's acclaimed illustrated histories of the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions, this is his long-awaited history of the 6th Australian Division: the first such history ever published. The 6th was a household name during World War II. It was the first division raised in the Second Australian Imperial Force, the first division to go overseas and the first to fight. Its success in that fight, in Libya in 1941, indicated that the standard established in the Great War would be continued. General Blamey and nearly every other officer who became wartime army, corps and divisional commanders were once members of the 6th Division. Through photographs and an authoritative text, this book tells their story and the story of the proud, independent and tough troops they commanded.Index, bib, ill, maps, p.269.non-fictionFollowing Mark Johnston's acclaimed illustrated histories of the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions, this is his long-awaited history of the 6th Australian Division: the first such history ever published. The 6th was a household name during World War II. It was the first division raised in the Second Australian Imperial Force, the first division to go overseas and the first to fight. Its success in that fight, in Libya in 1941, indicated that the standard established in the Great War would be continued. General Blamey and nearly every other officer who became wartime army, corps and divisional commanders were once members of the 6th Division. Through photographs and an authoritative text, this book tells their story and the story of the proud, independent and tough troops they commanded. australia - army - 6th division - history, divisional histories -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, William Heinemann, The Wolf : how one German raider terrorised Australia and the southern oceans in the first world war, 2010
The true story of an epic voyage of destruction in World War One. July 1917: the First World War is about to enter its fourth horrendous year and ships are mysteriously disappearing off Australia and New Zealand, as a young Australian woman named Mary Cameron sails with her husband and daughter across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney. Less than a thousand miles from Sydney, a black-hulled freighter appears out of the vast blue emptiness, and Mary and her daughter rush to the deck to greet her. Suddenly, two hinged iron sections of the freighter's bulwarks drop down to reveal she is bristling with guns. She is in fact the German warship the Wolf, and the Cameron family are about to find themselves captive on one of the century's most extraordinary wartime sea voyages.Index, bib, ill, maps, p.384.non-fictionThe true story of an epic voyage of destruction in World War One. July 1917: the First World War is about to enter its fourth horrendous year and ships are mysteriously disappearing off Australia and New Zealand, as a young Australian woman named Mary Cameron sails with her husband and daughter across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney. Less than a thousand miles from Sydney, a black-hulled freighter appears out of the vast blue emptiness, and Mary and her daughter rush to the deck to greet her. Suddenly, two hinged iron sections of the freighter's bulwarks drop down to reveal she is bristling with guns. She is in fact the German warship the Wolf, and the Cameron family are about to find themselves captive on one of the century's most extraordinary wartime sea voyages.naval warfare - germany, commerce raiders - germany -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Aurum Press Ltd, The secret listeners : The men and women posted across the world to intercept the secret german codes for Bletchley Park, 2012
Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machine's code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recorded by 'the Listening Service', the wartime department whose bases moved with every theatre of war (Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus) as well as having listening stations along the eastern coast of Britain to intercept radio traffic in the European theatre. This is the story of the - usually very young - men and women sent out to farflung outposts to listen in for Bletchley Park, an oral history of exotic locations and ordinary lives turned upside down by a sudden remote posting - the heady nightlife in Cairo, filing cabinets full of snakes in North Africa, and flights out to Delhi by luxurious flying boat.Index, ill, map, p.354.non-fictionBefore Bletchley Park could break the German war machine's code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recorded by 'the Listening Service', the wartime department whose bases moved with every theatre of war (Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus) as well as having listening stations along the eastern coast of Britain to intercept radio traffic in the European theatre. This is the story of the - usually very young - men and women sent out to farflung outposts to listen in for Bletchley Park, an oral history of exotic locations and ordinary lives turned upside down by a sudden remote posting - the heady nightlife in Cairo, filing cabinets full of snakes in North Africa, and flights out to Delhi by luxurious flying boat.world war 1939-1945 - great britain - intelligence, world war 1939-1945 - cryptography -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - RAAF Bairnsdale: The Story Of A Wartime Airfield
Description: 73 pages. Published by United States Dept of Navy. Published 1/1/1944. Tech Order 30-100D -1. Technical Lessons in All Weather Aspects - Ice, Turbulence, Fog, Storm, Cold/Warm Fronts. Level of Importance: World. -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Australia. Dept. of Veteran's Affairs, Bravo: Recollections and Reflections of the Veteran Community: Story Writing and Art Competition, 2011, 2011
True Wartime Experience; True Life Experience; Fiction; Poetry; Women and War; Art; Craft; PhotographyTrue Wartime Experience; True Life Experience; Fiction; Poetry; Women and War; Art; Craft; Photographyenglish literature - competitions, veterans - services for - australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Stockings, Craig ed. and Connor, John ed, The Shadow Men, 2017
Australian military history is full of big names that loom large in the public memory of the nation's wartime experiences - Monash, Chauvel, Jacka and Blamey. But what about the others, influential but lesser known army strategists and leaders, who shaped the Australian Army? this book pulls them out of the shadows.The leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam.Australian military history is full of big names that loom large in the public memory of the nation's wartime experiences - Monash, Chauvel, Jacka and Blamey. But what about the others, influential but lesser known army strategists and leaders, who shaped the Australian Army? this book pulls them out of the shadows.australia. army - officers - biography, australia. army - military personnel - biography -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Australia. Dept. of Veteran's Affairs, Bravo: Recollections and Reflections of the Veteran Community: Story Writing and Art Competitions 2015, 2011
53rd story writing and art competition, 2015. True Wartime Experience; True Life Experience: Fiction; Poetry; Centenary of ANZAC; 100 Years of Service; Art; Craft; Photography53rd story writing and art competition, 2015. True Wartime Experience; True Life Experience: Fiction; Poetry; Centenary of ANZAC; 100 Years of Service; Art; Craft; Photographyenglish literature - competitions, veterans - services for - australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Australia. Dept. of Veteran's Affairs, Bravo: Recollections and Reflections of the Veteran Community: Story Writing and Art Competition, 2012, 2012
True Wartime Experience; True Life Experience; Fiction; Poetry; Women and War; Art; Craft; PhotographyTrue Wartime Experience; True Life Experience; Fiction; Poetry; Women and War; Art; Craft; Photographyenglish literature - competitions, veterans - services for - australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Australia. Dept. of Veteran's Affairs, Bravo: Recollections and Reflections of the Veteran Community: Story Writing and Art Competition, 2014, 2014
True Wartime Experience; True Life Experience; Fiction; Poetry; Mateship; Stories of Companionship; Art; Craft; PhotographyTrue Wartime Experience; True Life Experience; Fiction; Poetry; Mateship; Stories of Companionship; Art; Craft; Photographyenglish literature - competitions, veterans - services for - australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Van Devanter, Lynda,Furey, Joan, Visions of War, Dreams of Peace: Writings of Women in the Vietnam War
the were the unsung heroines of the Vietnam War. Over a quarter of a million in numbers, they gave themselves to the most vital and emotionally compelling of wartimes duties.the were the unsung heroines of the Vietnam War. Over a quarter of a million in numbers, they gave themselves to the most vital and emotionally compelling of wartimes duties.vietnam war, 1961-1975 - poetry, women soldiers - poetry -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Framed Print, HMAS Sydney
HMAS Sydney built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend on Tyne, United Kingdom Launched 22 September 1934 Engaged and sunk Bartolmeo Colleom 19 July 1940. On 19 November 1941 South West of Carnarvon Western Australia she was lost at sea with all hands after engaging the German raider Kormoran. On 19 November 1941, HMAS Sydney, a light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy with an impressive record of war service, was lost following a battle with the German raider HSK Kormoran in the Indian Ocean off the Western Australian coast. The loss of the Sydney with its full war complement of 645 remains Australia’s worst naval disaster. The Kormoran was also sunk, but 317 of its crew of 397 were rescued. The fate of the Sydney remains one of Australia’s greatest wartime mysteries; even the location of the wrecks was not established until 2008.Black plastic frame with moulded pattern with grey mount containing photograph of ship and Sydney Harbour BridgeBanner - HMAS Sydney HMAS Sydney built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend on Tyne, United Kingdom Launched 22 September 1934 Engaged and sunk Bartolmeo Colleom 19 July 1940 Lost at sea with all hands 19 November 1941 South West of Carnarvon Western Australia after engaging the German raider Kormoran. hmas sydney, ww2 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Medal - star, Military, 1945
Medals recognizing WW2 service. Given to local returned serviceman.Two of 2 military medals (star) 1939-1945King George V1 GRT V1australian war medals -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Medal - service, Military, 1945
Medals recognizing WW2 service. Given to local returned serviceman.One military medal - Australian Service MedalKing George V1 GRT V1australian war medals -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Medal, Military, 1945
Medals recognizing WW2 service. Given to local returned serviceman.One military medal - Lion over Dragon 1939 - 1945. SilverKing George V1 GRT V1australian war medals -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Sewing Kit, Australian Army, 1943
Used by Reginald Eicke during his service in WW2 and as a internment camp guard.Green cotton material made into a pouch to contain mending items and spare buttons. Includes darning needles and cottons (19 tin buttons).R. Eicke. T (in ink on the hem)private reginald eicke, military accessories -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Dog Tags (Army), Private Eicke, 1943
Worn by Private Eicke during his service in WW1. He joined up in WW2 and was an internment camp guard with the 17 Australian Garrison Battalion.Set of circular tin identification tags (dog tags) for Private R. L. Eicke.V 251 1943 Made in Australia R. Eicke T Pte R. L. Eicke 3rd AIFprivate eicke, dog tags (army) -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
cream separator, Approx 1900
very old steel machine on solid stand. Vat (23 gallons per hour) is from a different machine (alfa laval). The separator is American with Australian agency. All parts are there but not put together. Two spouts,one for skim milk, one for cream. Run by hand with turning handle attached.Mc Cormick Deering U.S.A (maker) Chicago. International harvester company (Agent)dairy, cream, imported materials -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
telephone numbers board, 1940,s
Made for Tatura telephone exchange to allow telephonists quick access to correct numbersSolid timber board with covered wire hanger. Board painted red with white numbers for Tatura telephone urgent numbers. Doctor 24, Hospital 121, Fire brigade 175, Police station 18, Railway station 25, Water trust 26.communication -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Postcard, Kodak, Hogan Street Tatura, 1930 approx
Photo taken from railway crossing looking east.Standard size black and white cardboard. Shows shops with verandas, fire station, bell tower, several cars, one horse and gig. Telephone poles on south side, electricity on right. Sealed roadway.Post card, correspondence. Address only.tatura, street scape, postcard, bootmaker -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Folder, Dhurringile Mansion
tells of James Winter building Dhurringile mansion and life in the area. History of the mansion, including home for German Internees (Aug 1941 - July 1945), a training farm for British orphans, (1947 - 1965), and is now a minimum security prison (1965)Pink and clear folder. 17 pages of photo copy with B&W photos, telling the history of the Dhurringile mansion and surrounds 1870's - 1970. (A 4 pages)durringhile mansion - history -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
registration disc, Pre 1993
Shire issued various registration tags for animals.Brass plate issued by the Shire of Rodney as registration for an animal. Designed to be attached to a collar. Pointed at both ends to be pushed into collar.Rodney Shire No.10 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Disabled Men's Association Recipe book, approx 1920
Made by and for "The Disabled Men's Association of Australia" as a fund raiser.Small blue soft cardboard covered book. 65 pages.Recipe book highlighted with yellow background. Price 2/-. All the best recipes, formulas and menusthe disabled mens association of australia -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Cole's Fun Doctor
Obviously old book. Long and short humorous stories. Fun about all subjects. Hard cover. Faded red. Title in black on red material.Cole's Fun Doctorcoles fun doctor -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Warren Penney, The Farming of Australia, 1986
A social and economic portrait of farming in Australia from 1788 to 1986.Hard cover. Colourful jacket with landscape photograph on front. Picture of certificate of merit from Royal Agricultural Society. Much early farming. Many photographs of early farming methods to 1986. Social life. Written by Robin Brumby, journalist.farming methods in australia