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Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, GUIDE to ANZAC BATTLEFIELDS, LIEUTENANT COLONEL GLENN WAHLERT, "Exploring Gallipoli", 2008
'EXPLORING/ GALLIPOLI - / AN AUSTRALIAN ARMY BATTLEFIELD GUIDE"Soft cover book. Soft cover - cardboard, blue, grey and black print on front, spine, back and front and back flaps of cover. Front and back illustrations - montage of grey with black and white photographs of soldiers and War Memorial. Back flap - illustrations in colour - maps. 136 pages, paper, cut, plain, semi gloss white, illustrated - colour and black and white photographs, diagrams, maps, illustrations.books, ww1, gallipoli, history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, BIOGRAPHY & NARRATIVE of a POW. WW2, Peter REES and Sue LANGFORD, "A Week in September", 2021
Book - "A WEEK/ IN/ SEPTEMBER/ - A STORY OF ENDURING LOVE/ FROM THE BURMA RAILWAY."Soft cover book. Soft cover - cardboard, white, gold and yellow print on front, spine and back. Illustrated in colour, sky and jungle in silhouette. 356 pages - cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated - black and white photographs. End papers - on back of front and back - illustrated, hand writing - in colour yellow.biography, ww2, history, books -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, KOKODA BATTLEFIELD DISCOVERY, Brian FREEMAN, The Lost Battlefield of Kokoda, 2012
"The Lost/ Battlefield/ Of Kokoda/ The extraordinary story/ behind the discovery of a forgotten/ World War Two Battlefield."Soft cover book. Soft cover - cardboard, gold, white and dark green print on front, spine and back. Illustrated - green tones - photograph of jungle scene with 2 timber crosses in foreground. 269 Pages - paper, plain, cut, white, illustrated - colour photographs.books, history, ww2, kokoda -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, THE KOKODA TRACK & WOUNDED SOLDIERS, Brian FREEMAN with Tony PARK, "Walking Wounded", 2013
"Walking Wounded/ The Inspirational Story of how/ the Kokoda Track is helping our/ wounded soldiers"Soft cover book. Soft cover - cardboard, white, gold and black print on front, spine and back. Illustrated in colour photographs - front top silhouette of soldier. Bottom - a group walking along a track. Back - a group crossing a water course. 265 pages - paper, - cut, plain, off white. Illustrated colour photographs.books, history, ww2, new guinea -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, FIFTY YEARS Of RAAF, Australian Government Publishing Service Canberra for the Dept of Defence, The Golden Years. The Royal Australian Air Force 1921-1971, 1971
"The Golden Years/ The Royal Australian Air Force 1921-1971.Soft cover book - folio binding. Soft cover - cardboard, mid blue colour, embossed, Gold and Navy blue print on front and spine. Illustrated RAAF Crest. 124 pages - paper, cut, plain, white. Illustrated, colour and black and white photographs and diagrams.books, history, raaf -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, VIETNAM WAR NARRATIVES, Gary McKAY, "Vietnam Fragments", 1992
"Vietnam Fragments/ An oral history of Australians at War"Soft cover book Soft cover - cardboard, white, yellow and black print on front, spine and back. Background - blue, red and light blue colours. Illustrated with campaign ribbon and black and white photograph of two soldiers in a jungle setting - on front. 307 pages - paper, cut, plain white, illustrated black and white maps. front and back end papers - illustrated black and white photographs.books, history, vietnam war -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, VIETNAM WAR FROM BOTH SIDES, Michael CAULFIELD, "The Vietnam Years", 2007
"THE VIETNAM YEARS/FROM THE JUNGLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SUBURBS". The Vietnam Years is the story of both sides of that war."Soft cover book. Soft cover - cardboard, red and white print on front, spine and back. Illustrated on front, top colour photograph of soldiers. Bottom black and white photograph of a civilian crowd. 493 pages, paper, cut, plain, white. Illustrated, black and white photographs and maps.books, history, vietnam war -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, VIETNAM CONFLICT BIOGRAPHY, Frank WALKER, "The Tiger Man of Vietnam", 2009
"THE TIGER MAN OF VIETNAM/ THE HILL TRIBES MADE HIM A DEMI-GOD/ THE CIA WANTED TO KILL HIM/ THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF/ AUSTRALIAN WAR HERO BARRY PETERSEN"Soft cover book. Soft cover - cardboard, gold and black print on front, spine and back. Illustrated, front montage photo of sepia toned soldier with jungle scene behind. Back - sepia toned photograph - portrait of a man with an animal skin. 356 pages, paper, cut, plain, white. Illustrated - black and white photographs.books, history, biography, vietnam conflict -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, DARWIN, RUWOLDT Rex, Darwin's Battle for Australia. Vol. 2, 2005
From the front cover " REMEMBERING THOSE/ DESPARATE DAYS/ WHEN THE JAPANESE/ DROPPED 683 BOMBS ON DARWIN IN THE/ FIRST EVER ATTACK/ ON AUSTRALIA BY/ AN ENEMY FORCE/ AND THE 62 OTHER RAIDS/ OVER THE NEXT 18 MONTHS.Soft cover book. Cover - cardboard, yellow and black print on front, spine and back. Illustrated front - colour photograph of a beach scene, back - small colour photograph of the author's superimposed over colour photograph of a beach scene. 368 pages, cut, plain, glossy white, illustrated black and white and colour photographs, maps and documents. DVD Plastic, adhered to back end paper.books, military history, darwin, ww2 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - BOOKLET, SOUVENIR, Victorian Branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, ANZAC Memorial Day 25th April 1918
Soft cover with dust cover. Cover - paper, white and blue print on front and back. Illustrated in colour, flag, laurel leaves, column with silhouette of a soldier and cross. Dust cover - waxed tissue paper, beige, stapled to booklet. Pages (no page numbers), cut, plain, white, illustrated black and white photographs.booklet, military history, ww1, anzac -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - Booklet Royal Australian Survey Corps History, " The Royal Australian Survey Corps " 1915-1990, c, 1995
This article was presented as a paper to the 1990 Australian War Memorial History Conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the "Australian Survey Corps" on 1 July 1915. The Corps has since been renamed. Booklet, A4, 13 Pages, Cardboard Cover, Colour, Maps, Photographs, Black and White. Held together by metal staplesroyal australian survey corps, rasvy, fortuna, army survey regiment, army svy regt, asr -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WORLD WAR ONE VICTORY, DANDO-COLLINS Stephen, The Heroes of Hamel, 2018
Soft cover book Soft cover - cardboard, brown and beige colour print on front, spine and back. Front illustration - sepia, half portrait of two soldiers in uniform. 323 pages - cut, off white, illustrated black & white photographs and map.books, military history, ww1 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - MEMORIAL BOOKLET, AWM Board of Management, Australian War Memorial, 1959
Red and white illustrated cardboard cover depiction of Canberra War Memorial, 155 pages cream coloured, 1959 revised version.canberra war memorial, memorials, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - GALLIPOLI BOOK, Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd, Gallipoli. My Australian Story, This edition 2017
Juvenile fiction, diary of a 14 year old soldier to land at ANZAC Cove 25th April 1915. The book is dedicated to the Fighting 10th/1st AIF, 3rd brigade and Clifford Claudias Schroder 1st Div Signal Company.Book, soft cover cardboard, dark green and black print on front, spine and back covers, front cover illustrated B & W photograph of “Troops landing at Gallipoli Cove Gallipoli 1915”, back cover has small black silhouette of a slouch hat.books military, history, juvenile fiction, ww! -
Bendigo Military Museum
Postcard - SOUVENIR POSTCARDS, 1) Tichnor Brothers Inc
Each postcard folder was sent to a Mss B Murdoch by F.G.Davey, .1) features New York City, .2) Kansas City, .3) Salt Lake City. Part of the Frederick Gardner Davey DFC RAAF collection. Refer Cat No 3536P for his service records.Postcard folders, set of three containing coloured illustrations depicting city scenes, each folder cover and back depicts a city scene, titles are printed in colour in various fonts, each front cover has a space for an address and postage stamp, on the inside cover of each is a history of each city.On all three covers in black ink, “Miss B Murdoch 123 Wattle street, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia”. On inside cover of .3) handwritten in black ink, “Fondest love, yours truly”postcards, souvenirs -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, History of the 5th Battalion AIF WWI, Albert William Keown, "Forward with the Fifth"
"Narrative of the service history of the Fifth (Victorian) Infantry Battalion 1st AIF". "A remarkable testimony of their sacrifice in the First World War".Hard cover with dust cover. Hard cover, cardboard with black coloured buckraw, red print on front and spine. Front - illustrated - silhouette drawing of soldier in uniform Back - black and white photograph of 2 soldiers on camel back. Small black over red rectangular colour patch front and back 342 pages, cut, plain, white. Illustrated black and white photographs, portraits, maps and documents.Opposite Title Page - printed donation label - "Donated by 39th Australian Infantry Battalion (1941-1943) Association Inc. www.39battalion.com"books, military, history, wwi -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, HOME FRONT WW1, McKERNAN Michael, "AUSTRALIANS AT HOME WORLD WAR 1", 2014
... . This redesigned edition published in 2014. Books Military History ...A book which studies the Australian home front in depth and detail.Hard cover book with dust cover. Hard cover - cardboard, black, brown, white and red print on front, back and spine. Front - colour poster type illustration of three figures, male in uniform, woman and child. Dust cover - paper with glossy colour finish, same as hard cover. 244 pages, cut, plain, white, illustrated with black and white photographs.non-fictionA book which studies the Australian home front in depth and detail. books, military history, australians at home -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, SHARE Pat, "Mud and Blood" "Albury's Own". Second Twenty third Australian Infantry Battalion, 1978 First Edition
Original owner of book, Mr FREDERICK CARLETON. Please see Catalogue Number 142 for service history.Hard Cover book. Hardcover, cardboard with red coloured buckram, white print on front and spine. End papers - illustrated black and white photographs, front silhouette of barbed wire and soldiers. Back - soldiers on parade.Opposite Title page - newspaper cuttings from Bendigo Advertiser, Monday June 6, 1994 and Saturday July 2, 1994. Death notices or CARLETON Frederick Lloyd".book, battalions, ww2 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WW1 NAVAL HISTORY, GUILLIATT Richard & HOHNEN Peter, " THE WOLF', 2009
"THE WOLF' How one German raider terrorised Australia and the Southern Oceans in the First World War.Soft cover book. Soft cover - cardboard, red and black print on front, spine and back. Cover - colour illustrated - front - top German symbol, bottom, ship at sea. Back - sepia photograph - sailor and girl. 366 pages - cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated black and white photographs and maps.Nilbook, ww1, naval operations -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, OSBORNE Therese, The Home Front - Australia during the First World War, 2015
Book produced for the National Museum Australia. "This book is a companion to the exhibition of the same name". "An exhibition at the National Museum of Australia/ 3 April 2015 to 11 October 2015"Soft Cover Book Soft Cover - cardboard, white print on dark red background on front and back. Illustrated - front - black and white montage of photographs. 40 pages, cut, plain, white paper. Illustrated black and white and colour photographs, posters. End papers - illustrated in colour - maps.books, history, ww1, museums -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, AUSTRALIAN ARMED FORCES, FISHER VICTORIA for Random House Australia, Australian War Diary, 2010
... History Australia FISHER VICTORIA for Random House Australia ..."Australian War Diary" Australian Armed Force4s in a Changing World: 1870 - 2010.Hard cover book Hardcover cardboard with Glossy paper finish. White print on front, spine and back. Cover black and white and colour illustrations - montage of photographs in strips top and bottom, front to back of various Armed Forces scene. 303 pages, cut, plain white paper. Illustrated black and white and colour photographs, posters and paintings.books, military history, australia -
Bendigo Military Museum
Medal - MEDALLIONS, 1939 - 43
Items collected by Albert Edward Corrie VX47191 2nd AIF. Refer Cat No 4847 for service history.1) medallion brass round shape with small ring at top. Face shows a human figure over a map of Australia. .2) medallion brass round shape showing Egyptian figures with one seated..1) one side, “1945, opposite, “Victory”.medallions, 1945 victory, eygyptian -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - ARMY HISTORY, The Australian Women's Service Club, Backing Up The Boys: The Australian Women's Army Service and Albury Army Area, 1988
The book details the history of the Australian Women's Army Service and the Albury Army AreaBlue coloured soft cover with the title in white lettering. A blue and white crest with yellow lettering is located at the top centre of the front cover. A larger version of the same crest is located in the centre of the back cover. 143 pages with cut edges and black and white photographs and illustrations.non-fictionThe book details the history of the Australian Women's Army Service and the Albury Army Areaaustralian women's army service, bandiana museum, albury army area, major thomas b. williams, army history -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Vehicle - Kayak, Commandos
The remarkable story when 74 soldiers fought in vain to save the lives of their mates off Portsea as 3 soldiers died. Tragically, Privates Roger Wood and Edward Meyer, and Warrant Officer George "Taffy" Drakopoulos, died. Please Note: "The Rip" is also known as "The Heads", which is a dangerous stretch of water connecting Port Phillip Bay and Bass Strait. This is the only entrance for all shipping into Port Phillip Bay and to and from the Port of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Kayak of a similar type as those used during the ill-fated army exercise with loss of life in the rip.rip disaster, commandos, kayak, military history - army -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Plaque South African Military Veterans Organisation of Australia
Presented to Waverley R. S. L. sub branch by South African Military Veterans Organisation of Australia http://www.samvoa.org/abouthistory.htmlhttp://www.samvoa.org/abouthistory.html The founder of SAMVOA, Veteran Tony Macquet MMM, documents the early history of the organisation: Two statements characterise the formation of the South African Military Veterans Organisation of Australasia that has taken on the acronym SAMVOA: SAMVOA was long in the making, yet I am reminded of what Garth Pienaar once said, "If you had not started it, I would have". And no doubt he or someone else would have because it needed "starting" and it just did not seem right that almost every other nation was represented on ANZAC Day and there were no South Africans marching, particularly when South Africans fought alongside Australians in two World Wars and in Korea. It is important to note that SAMVOA has had predecessors who were South Africans who had marched in Melbourne and probably elsewhere prior to 1996, but they were an older group of WW1 and WW2 veterans who by 1996 were too old to even travel by vehicle and they had fallen away. Around 1998, I contacted and spoke to their leader Major (retd.) Norval who confirmed that their group had become too old to march and he was delighted that a younger group was interested, although at that stage it was only me. http://www.samvoa.org/membership.html SAMVOA Membership This Veteran Organisation dedicates itself, in grateful recognition and memory of our countrymen, the Immortal Dead of South Africa, who, at the call of Duty, made the great Sacrifice on the battlefields of Africa, Asia and Europe and on the Sea. Their ideal is our legacy, Their sacrifice our inspiration. Metal Plaque mounted on wooden shield shaped backing plateSouth African Military Veterans Organisation of Australia Pro Patriasamvoa, south africa, military veterans organization australia, pro patria, -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Poster, Changi Chapel
The Changi Museum is a museum dedicated to Singapore's history during the Second World War. The original chapel has been re-erected at Duntroon Military Academy and is on public display as a memorial to the P.O.W's In 1988, Singapore built a replica Chapel and Museum next to the Changi Prison. When Changi Prison was expanded in 2001, the Chapel and Museum was relocated to a new site 1 km away and the Changi Chapel and Museum was officially established on 15 February 2001. Bernard Stogden, the son of Sgt. Harry Stogden, was invited to place the cross that his father made onto the wreathed altar in the new Chapel. He was claimed to have cried while doing so, as this was one of the only chances he got to interact with his father(through his work) as "Harry" Stogden died during the war. The Museum has a collection of paintings, photographs and personal effects donated by former POWs. Among the collection is a series of paintings and sketches by a POW named William Haxworth which provide valuable insight on the daily life of the internees during the occupation. In 1986, Haxworth's wife donated a collection of over 400 paintings and sketches to the National Archives of Singapore. Also in the museum is a collection of watercolour paintings by Mary Angela Bateman who was among the thousands of women and children held at Changi Prison for more than three years during the war.[1]Poster produced by Australian War Memorial detailing the history of The Changi Chapel Framedchangi, changi chapel, changi history -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Peter Stanley, Men of Mont St Quentin : between victory and death, 2009
In the hands of Peter Stanley, one of Australia's leading military historians, a famous battlefield in France becomes unforgettably connected with Australian men and their families in the long aftermath of the Great War.Index, notes, bibliography, ill, p.298.non-fictionIn the hands of Peter Stanley, one of Australia's leading military historians, a famous battlefield in France becomes unforgettably connected with Australian men and their families in the long aftermath of the Great War.australian army - 21st battalion - 9 platoon - history, world war 1914-1918 - 2nd battle of the somme -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Peter Stanley, Bad characters : sex, crime, mutiny, murder and the Australian Imperial Force, 2011
... . australian army - imperial force - 1914-1921 - history australian ...Australia's long-standing love affair with the Diggers has blinded us to the dark side of the Anzac legend. This book tells the story of the Australian soldiers in the Great War who were not heroes, soldiers who committed offences and crimes, those who deserted, robbed and murdered their comrades and more.Index, bibliography, notes, ill, p.287.non-fictionAustralia's long-standing love affair with the Diggers has blinded us to the dark side of the Anzac legend. This book tells the story of the Australian soldiers in the Great War who were not heroes, soldiers who committed offences and crimes, those who deserted, robbed and murdered their comrades and more.australian army - imperial force - 1914-1921 - history, australian army - military deserters - 1914-1921 -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Harper Collins et al, Stoker's submarine, 2003
On 25 April 1915 - the day the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli - Lieutenant Commander Dacre Stoker set out as captain of the Australian submarine AE2 on a mission to breach the treacherous Dardanelles Strait with the intention of disrupting Turkish supply lines to the isolated Gallipoli peninsula. Facing dangerous currents, mines and withering enemy fire, Stoker and his men succeeded where British and French submarines had come to grief." "Stoker's achievement meant much in military terms, and even more emotionally in boosting the morale of embattled Allied troops. But what was proclaimed at the time as 'the finest feat in submarine history' has since sunk into oblivion. Few Australians even know their country had a submarine at Gallipoli, much less that it achieved daring feats, sank an enemy craft, and possibly played a pivotal role in Anzac troops staying on the beachhead for eight months." "Now, finally, Stoker's Submarine tells the story of a remarkable naval hero and the men under his command. And the AE2 itself, still lying intact on the floor of the Sea of Marmara, is celebrated as the most tangible relic of Australia's role at Gallipoli, the crucible of nationhood.Index, bibliography, notes, ill. (some col.), maps, ports, p.318.non-fictionOn 25 April 1915 - the day the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli - Lieutenant Commander Dacre Stoker set out as captain of the Australian submarine AE2 on a mission to breach the treacherous Dardanelles Strait with the intention of disrupting Turkish supply lines to the isolated Gallipoli peninsula. Facing dangerous currents, mines and withering enemy fire, Stoker and his men succeeded where British and French submarines had come to grief." "Stoker's achievement meant much in military terms, and even more emotionally in boosting the morale of embattled Allied troops. But what was proclaimed at the time as 'the finest feat in submarine history' has since sunk into oblivion. Few Australians even know their country had a submarine at Gallipoli, much less that it achieved daring feats, sank an enemy craft, and possibly played a pivotal role in Anzac troops staying on the beachhead for eight months." "Now, finally, Stoker's Submarine tells the story of a remarkable naval hero and the men under his command. And the AE2 itself, still lying intact on the floor of the Sea of Marmara, is celebrated as the most tangible relic of Australia's role at Gallipoli, the crucible of nationhood.world war 1914-1918 - campaigns - gallipoli, gallipoli campaign - naval operations, submarine ae2 -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, McMillan, Australian campaigns in the Great War : being a concise history of the Australian naval and military forces, 1914 to 1918, 1919
A concise history of Australian participation in the great warIll, maps, p.206.non-fictionA concise history of Australian participation in the great warworld war 1914-1918 - campaigns - australia, world war 1914-1918 - history