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Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Total War. The Home Front 1939-45, 1985
Red, yellow, green, white cardboard cover, colour illustrations front cover. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Pages 92books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Australia Post, White Ensign 1939 - 1945: The Navy Goes to War, 1993
Documents the roles of various classes of RAN & Merchant Navy ships during World War IIBook, blue illustrated hard cover. Title in blue & purple letters. No dust cover. Illustrated end papers. Colour & black & white illustrations. 40 pages with cut edges.Opposite title page: Donated by Marg Andreabooks, military, navy -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Dave Fehring, 2/8 Australian Field Regiment Remembers WWII 1939 - 1945, 31.8.1992
Makers Details: Possibly collected by Dave Fehring. p3 - list of contributors - Robert GillBook, white black, red, grey illustrated paper cover. Title in black print. Black plastic ring binding, 322 pages, black & white illustrations.books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Claim for Special Allowance to Ex-Prisoners of War 1939-45
The book belonged to George Llewellyn Thomas VX58918 2nd AIF, POW. Refer 1075 for service history also 1073.2, 1074P. Soft cover book. Cover is cardboard. Book binding brown ..cloth tape with staples. Covers fawn coloured.Black printing on front cover. 131 pages, paper cut, plain & off white Inside cover on first page handwritten blue ink " G.L.Thomas./7 Creeth St./Long Gully,/Bendigo" book, history -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Book, Defence Act 1903-1939 and Regulations and Orders for the AMF and Senior Cadets 1927, 1940 (estimated)
Hard cover bound copy of Defence Act 1903 and Regulations and Orders for the Australian Military Forces and Senior Cadets 1927Initials: J.H.N on top edge military law, defence act, defence regulations, defence orders, senior cadets -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Medal, War Medal 1939-1945
World War 2 medalFull size medal, no ribbonVXINwar medal, ww2 -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Medal, 1939-1945 Star, abt 1945
WW2 issueFull size medal, no ribbonNone, so possibly a replicamedal, 1939-45 star, medal, 1939-45 star -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Medal, 1939-45 Star
World War 2 issueMiniature medal with ribbonmedal, 1939-45 star -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Booklet, Holland & Stephenson Pty Ltd, Operations Military Training Pamphlet No 23 Part III Appreciations, Orders, Intercommunications & Movements 1939, Oct 939
A soft covered training pamphlet, No 3 in the series, containing the latest ideas on subjects dealt with in Field Service Regulations Vol IINot to be published. Not to be taken into front line trenchestraining, operations, world war 2 -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Booklet (2 copies), Victorian Railways Printing Works, Tactical Handling of Army Tank Battalions Military Training Pamphlet No 22 Part III: Employment 1939, 1941
Soft covered booklet. As modified for Australia in 1941.Not to be taken forward of Divisional Headquarters.tank tactics, world war 2 -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - Air Raid Precautions, WWII, Manual of General Training Sept. 1939
With the onset of WWII, the Victorian State Emergency Council of Defence printed this book for the volunteers who kept watch for enemy aeroplanes flying in the skies during the day and night. For success, training was necessary.During WWII the SECV township of Bogong had an Air Observer's Hut used to monitor the skies overhead for enemy planes. Men and women working on the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme volunteered to be rostered on duty. See also KVHS 0937 (photo) and KVHS 0938 (certificate)Small book grey with black print and a red binding with 64 pages. issued by the Victorian State Emergency Council for Civil Defence.Pages 26, 48 & 49 have pencil marks / notes.air raid, wwii, secv, kiewa hydro electric scheme, bogong, victorian state emergency council -
Australian Commando Association - Victoria
Book, Australia in the War of 1939-45 ARMY Greece
Canvas and rubbernon-fiction -
Australian Commando Association - Victoria
Book, Australia in the War of 1939-45 ARMY South West Pacific Area
non-fiction -
Australian Commando Association - Victoria
Book, Gavin Long Australian War Memorial, Australia in the War of 1939-45 ARMY The Final Campaigns
Smith and Westonnon-fiction -
Australian Commando Association - Victoria
Book, David Dexter Australian War Memorial, Australia in the War of 1939-45 ARMY The New Guinea Offensives
marked "South Africa"non-fiction -
Australian Commando Association - Victoria
Book, Peter Young, World War 1939-45
1950-1960non-fiction -
Greensborough Historical Society
Map, Scotprint, A Guide to World War II 'Invasion or Liberation': Western Europe Sept 1939 to March 1945, 1999_
Notes of battles, military leaders, cemeteries and other features of World War 11 Western Europe.Double sided col. maps, with notes of battles, military leaders, cemeteries and other features of World War 11 Western Europe.world war ii -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Medal, Medal 1939-1945, Post 1945
This medal was awarded to Ernest Henry Swan. He served from December 1941 to July 1942 in the Citizen Military Forces and from July 1942 to September 1944 in the Australian Imperial Forces. His reason for discharge was reserved occupation. He held the rank of corporal in 26th Motor regiment. He was born in Colac 19/11/1919 to Ernest Swan and Daisy Johnson. He died 04/08/2009 and is buried at the Warrnambool cemetery. During his life he farmed a soldiers’ settlers block in the Grasmere area, north of Warrnambool.A common item which commemorates the service of many military personnel which fought in World War 2.This medal is round and silver metal with a crowned image of George VI on the obverse and the reverse side has an image of a lion standing on top of a dragon like creature. The edge is plain with name and number of the recipient engraved. A bar is attached at the top. VX 88010 E. H. Swan -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book, THE CRUCIAL YEARS 1939-1941
Hard Cover-Red, Title on Spine. Sub-title: The World at War Hanson W. Baldwin Harper & Row Publishers:1976 -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book, MARCHING TO WAR 1933-1939. THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
Hardback with dust cover – Coffee Table Book Introduction by Martin Gilbert Foreword James Bishop (Editor in Chief the Illustrated London News) Bracken Books London: 1989 ISBN: 1 851170 265 2 -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book, LONDON GOES TO WAR 1939
Hardback with dust cover Author Gordon Bromley Publisher Michael Joseph Ltd London 1974 ISBN 0 7181 1140 0 -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, Roger Simmons, Eltham in the making / [editor] Roger Simmons. Vol.1, From Roman times until 1939, 1990
Paperback; 128p. : ill,maps,ports,facsim,geneological table ; 23cm.ISBN 0951590707eltham society (london) -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Vernon Bartlett and W Gordon Williams, The War of 1939 ( 7 volumes), 1940
These seven volumes contain of the history of the Second World War from the English point of view. The inscription shows that the books belonged to James Low. Scottish born James Low came to Australia and worked in the Swintons' shoe store in Warrnambool. He served in World War One and in the 1930s he opened his own shoe business. He died in 1976. These books are of antiquarian interest and have local provenance.These books have blue hard covers with an embossed image of Caxton on the front. There is gold printing on the spines. The pages contain printed text, black and white photographs and maps.J.S.Lowworld war two., james low of warrnambool -
Expression Australia
Annual Report, 55th Report of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of Victoria 1939
The Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of Victoria, now known as Vicdeaf, (the Victorian Deaf Society), was founded in 1884 as the Victorian Society for Promoting the Spiritual and Temporal Welfare of the Adult Deaf and Dumb. The provisional committee being Mr W Bates, Mr J M Bruce, Mr J D Gowan, Mr Edwin Newbiggin, Mr C M Officer, M. L, A., and the Rev. W. Moss. The Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission's objects were: 1. To provide the means for religious worship and instruction for the adult deaf and dumb of Victoria 2. To visit the deaf and dumb in their homes, especially when sick or in distress 3. To assist the deaf and dumb of good character in obtaining suitable employment 4. To provide technical and other education for the adult and dumb 5. To give pecuniary assistance to adult deaf and dumb who are in needThe Annual Reports of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society are historically significant providing insight into the history of the evolving Deaf Community in Victoria. They are a annual 'snapshot' of the year with references not only to the progress of the Society but also to the significant people and events within the Deaf Community.Cream Cover, Size 21.5Hx13.5W, 24 pagesjulius bruche, l. a. cleveland, edgar h. peacock, c. r. b. james, dr boyd penfold, dr w. j. craig, dr selwyn sutton, f. w. spry, n. armstrong, h bedggood, h. belyea, e. j. l. bremner, h. greensmith, d. hickey, m. j. hoath, s. g. hobson, e. r. noble, g. w. sweetland, ernest j. d. abraham, e. r. empson, douglas abraham, j. m. johnston, h. blackmore, f. williams, w. hately, b. grayden, j. b. murphy, w. m. underwood, c. monahan, h. ludbrook -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Gavan L Burn, Carey Roll of Honour, 1939-1945, 2001
120 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 31 cm. non-fictioncarey baptist grammar school -- students -- biography, private schools -- victoria -- kew -- history, world war 1939-1945 -- biography, cemeteries, australia - armed forces - biography -
Nillumbik Historical Society Incorporated
Photograph - Black & white photograph, Horses & Buggies at Diamond Creek Horticultural Show 1939
Black & white photograph -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Magazine, Images of War 1939-1945 The Real Story of World War II, 1988
Magazine Issue 1 volume 1 part of " A Marshall Cavendish Collection in association with the Imperial War Museum". Red black and white magazine - cover depicting withdrawal from Dunkirkdunkirk, magazine collection, images of war 1939-1945 -
Grey Street Primary School, Traralgon
Book, War Service Record 1939-1945 Education Department Victoria
Navy blue cloth covered. bound 313 pages, b&w text and photosworld war 2, war service, teachers, enlistments, honours and decoratons, deaths, victoria -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Stephen Spender, Poetry since 1939, 1946
Softcoverbritish literature, british poetry, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Geoffrey Serle, Australian Dictionary of Biography : Volume 11 1891-1939, 1988
Hardcover w/ Dust JacketPlain envelope, Australian Dictionary of Biography Subscription card and Corrigenda insidebiography, dictionary, australian biography, walsh st library