.1) Hard cover, black buckram with gold print on front & spine. .2) Dust cover, white & yellow coloured print on front & spine. Black background with 4 coloued photos on front & 1 on back. 189 pages, cut, plain, glass white. Illustrated black / white & colour photos. Yellow coloured end papers & fly leaf. .3) Folded card, laminated beige colour. Copy of Food Ration Book cover used as a menu for the 70th Anniversary of the Rooty Hill RSL Branch 1937 - 2007..3) Printed in black: "On the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Rooty Hill RSL Branch 1937 - 2007. Date: 22nd September 2007"book, anniversary, rooty hill

From front cover: The Diary and Log Book of Test Pilot H Leonard Thorne 1940-45..1) Hard cardboard cover, blue coloured paper, gold print on spine. .2) Dust cover is blue, brown, white, black print on front, spine, back. Colour photo of an aircraft & pilot on front, back cover has colour photo of a Log Book. Pages - 254, cut, plain, white. Illustrated black & white photos & documents. Inscription front fly leaf handwritten in blue ink: “To a good friend & brother, Kevin Hogan Gill & Barry” To the Bendigo District RSL & Passchendaele Barracks Memorial Military Museum. Thank you for keeping the memory of our war heroes alive”book, test pilot, dunkirk

From back flap: Here are the works of over seventy Australian poets..1) Hard cardboard cover, mid brown buckram with black print front & spine. .2) Dust cover, mid grey coloured background, black print on front & spine with photos of an oil on canvas painting by George Bell 'Laying the duckboards, France'. 146 pages, cut, plain, off white. Illustrated black & white photos. Front & back fly leaf & end papers illustrated with sepia portrait photos of men in uniform. Inscription on rear of front fly leaf.Handwritten in blue ink on rear of front flyleaf: “To Rita with best wishes from Wilbur?”book, somme, dark rising

Hard red cover, embossed lumpy surface & string binder. The upper right corner has a 60 mm dia hole. Embossed around this hole are the words My Childhood. The internal pages are black cardboard. Fixed to these are 4 black & white photos per page. Photo description is written in white adjacent to photos. Photo subjects of native people from Egypt, Africa, Thailand, Palestine, Syria & Jerusalem, Tobruk, Gaza & Jerusalem war cemeteries.Front cover printed: “My Childhood”album, photographs, native

Hard fawn coloured cover with dotted cross lines dispersed overall. There is a blue leather binding strap & 2 eyelets on spine. Pages are black cardboard with 2 photos per page. The pages have worked loose due to no binding cord. There is white handwriting adjacent to each photo. Subjects include Jerusalem religious buildings, Tel Aviv, beach scenes, Australian soldiers on leave, Palestine farm labourers, Tiberias local people.album, photograph, religious

Hard brown leather cover, heavily carved with floral shapes. Rectangular brass panel in center of cover showing a building stamped in the leather. String binder. Photos are mounted on black cardboard sheets. White handwriting is underneath each photo. Subjects include Bethlehem, natives, Mosour, water colour painting of aircraft landing & native with pipe, Jerusalem, Jordan River, Petra, Jerusalem war cemetery, Tiberias, the stations of the cross, Australian troups & 1000 lb bomb, post battle scenes, German war dead, tanks, enemy aircraft, probably captured German soldiers, POWs Greece, Baalbek, Syria, Jaffa, Damascus, address by General Alexander to AIF, post El Alamein.Underneath building front cover: “Davids Tower”photograph, album, alamein, pow’s

Waterproofed roll, green. Contains cleaning kit for 7.62 rifle MK1.Printed in white inside: "Rolls Cleaning Kit 7.62 M/M Rifle MK1"equipment, cleaning kit, 7.62

Emergency signaling mirror - Ground to Air .1) Bright polished steel. Cross hairs engraved on reflective surface. Rear face has instructions for use, yellow sticker with black print. .2) Sight. Long piece with viewing hole at end, painted white. .3) White cotton container with tie straps..1) On rear yellow sticker / black print: "Instructions for use of Heliograph Mirror & illustration" .2) Site stamped one side: "27H / 2107" .3) Faded stencil on flap: "Heliograph" heliograph, mirror, ground to air

Metal trophy cup on dark wooden base. Inscription on the cup & small metal plaque attached to the base.On cup: "WON BY 38TH BATT TEAM, SIGNALING, SEYMOUR 1926, CAPT W L TRESSIDDER, SGT R BEATTIE, PTE D STILLWELL, B SILKE, R CLARKE" On base: "PRESENTED TO CAPT W L TRESSIDDER BY THE TEAM"trophy, award, signalling 38th

Pewter metal tankard with medallion attached.Inscribed: "LIMBLESS SOLDIERS ASSOCIATION, PRESENTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR DALLAS BROOKS TO MARK THE OCCASION OF HIS VISIT ROSANNA GOLF CLUB 4-11-51" Underneath: "Cornish Pewter"tankards, container, limbless soldiers

Baggy, khaki shorts waist held by two straps of same material. Buttons plain brass. Commonly called Bombay Bloomers.uniform, shorts, bombay bloomers

Forage cap, khaki wool, green piping around the middle of sides. Green section inside the top fold, 2 Australian brass buttons at front. Internal lining is green cotton drill.headwear, forage

.1) & .2) Dress puttee. Dark khaki wool outside. Inside is plain khaki drill. The puttee has 3 button holes at the wider end. Attached but not sewn are 3 brown bakelite buttons. The opposite end is slightly tapered.uniform, puttee’s

Decorative brown wooden frame, glass front, cardboard backing. Black & white photo of unknown soldier with Union Jack flag in background Soldier dressed in peaked cap, jacket with waist belt trousers, puttees & boots, photo mounted with brown border.On front RHS, LHS back & bottom white sticker: "No 59" Rear at bottom in biro: "Henry Bice Maiden Gully"passchendaele barracks trust, photographs, framed

Black & white photo taken October 1917 of unknown hospital group from Bradford, England during WWI. Mounted on green background, brown wooden frame with glass front, white cardboard backing & wire hanging strap.Written in white at bottom of photo: “The War Hospital, Bradford, October 1917”photograph, bradford, hospital

This album contains numerous items in relation to the Army Survey Regiment & WOII R R PRATT, WWII onward. Cards, drawings, magazines, souvenirs, caricatures, newspaper clippings, some photos of Bendigo Historical Society objects. Robert Richard PRATT VX85798 enlisted in the 2nd AIF on 8.8.1942 age 28 years. He was discharged from the AIF on 29.10.1947 with the rank of Sgt serving with AHQ Cartographic Coy. He then enlisted in the ARA with a Regimental Number of 31074. He was promoted WOII on 27 May 1948.Blue hard cover photo album with spiral binding. Top right side on a white label in black print: EX FORTUNA ASR In the centre on a white label in black print: Donated by Mrs Connie PRATT on behalf of late husband WOII R R PRATT Ex AHQ CARTO COY "FORTUNA" BENDIGO (Per R O Temple)royal australian survey corps, rasvy, fortuna, army survey regiment, army svy regt, asr

Soft, cream coloured cover. Title in brown ink. Most of the cover has an image in black ink of a 19th Century soldier in helmet with Royal badge, spike & chin strap. The uniform is a high neck variety. 15 pages & illustrated with black & white photos.booklet, 200 years

Strong paper chart folded 3 times. Front panel has title Australian Army Operations 1940 - 1945 printed in black ink, black & white divisional unit colour patches & gold coloured Rising Sun. Inside are 4 maps including Mediterranean Sea area, New Guinea, Pacific Islands - Borneo & Malaya. One panel has a chronology chart showing dates & events during 1939 - 1945.chart, operations, army 1939 - 45

For ex POW's Association. 1941-45, Pacific War. Oral history transcriptions of ex POW's.White cardboard cover, black plastic spiral binding. Stylised map of Australia in centre. Title is in small print at top. 63 pages with no illustrations.Handwritten inside cover: “Mel? Koch”histories, oral, pow’s

68 loose photocopied pages of service record for BARKLA Joseph Harold 3236 of 7th Battalion. NAA barcode 3049497. B2455 Series.records, service, documents

Postcard style black & white photo of 12 Australian soldiers in front of tents. Desert in front of them has large quantity of beer bottles in the shape of letters V B. Stamped top right: “DATE: 1941, WHO: 13 Platoon, D Company 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion WHERE: Ikingi, Egypt” Rear: “Note re Legacy & VB”postcard, vb, eygpt, 2/1st

Biography of a Minister, Father William Doyle. Date of Birth 3.3.1873 in Ireland.Red colour booklet with black & white print. The centre has a black & white head to waist photo of a chaplain wearing a Sam Brown belt. Bottom section of cover has images of a soldier & a WWI 18-pounder canon firing explosives. 31 pages not illustrated.Top right in black print: “903” Printed underneath title: “Father William Doyle S J by EMG” booklet, chaplain, padre, father

A4 size document with no cover, pages stapled top left. 17 pages not illustrated. Entry start date: 19.6.1918. End date: 1.1.1919. In black print at top: “Pte W E McKee 3346 B Company 38th Battalion 10th Brigade AIF France”diary, extracts, 38th

Ribbon bar with 3 medal ribbons being Australian Active Service Medal 1945 - 1975, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Republic of Vietnam Cross. The rear has 2 brass clips.award, service, ribbons, vietnam

Khaki coloured booklet with dark blue print. In the centre is a royal crown. Wording as follows: The Shrine Forecourt, Victoria's Memrial of the 1939-1945 War. Dedication By Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second. Sunday 28th Feb 1954. Official Souvenir 2/-.Handwritten in ink at top: “Robert Exon” March 5th 1954”booklet, shrine, melbourne

Folded map fixed into yellow cardboard folder with black printing. Map covers battle areas late in WWII of Maginot Line & Siegfried Line from Metz, France to Karlsruhe, Germany.On cover in black print: “Second Edition. New War Map of the Western Front”map, seigfreid, maginot

Forward by Gen T BLAMEY.Soft grey cover with a red cross in centre. An outline drawing of a hospital ship Centaur is in the middle of this cross. Surrounding this cross is a wreath of green leaves with a pink bow at the bottom. Printed top of cover: “Lest We Forget” Printed underneath bow: “CENTAUR MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP” Printed at bottom: “AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE. PRICE 2/-“ booklet, centaur, aans

Rupert EXON, refer Cat No 486P for his service history.Brown buckram sleeve for holding most likely a shaving mirror. There is a small scallop cut out on right side.Handwritten on front: “408 R Exon C Squadron 9th L.Horse”container, sleeve, shaving

Shadow image of soldier with pith helmet looking at a war grave with a pouch hewn cross. Soldier is standing on a knoll with ocean & sun setting in background. The Australian flag is on the left draped around a Greek style column. Inside are numerous black & white photos & captions of WWI soldiers. The rear cover has 3 flags & RSSILA Badge with 2 characters.Bottom left in white print: “ANZAC Memorial Day 25TH APRIL 1918”booklet, anzac, 25.4.1918

For Rupert Exon No 408 refer 486P for his service history.Album cover is red & dark gold angled striped pattern. Contains black & white photos of various subjects - The Emben Wreck, parades, churches in Middle East & harbours. Top left on front cover on a white sheet in blue ink: “Donald W Clark Historian” Below in black centre: “Photos & Souvenirs No 408 Trooper Robert T Exon and Trooper G E Exon 9th Light Horse Regiment 1915 - 1918”album, photograph, trooper, light horse