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National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Manual, Australian Army: manual of land warfare, part 2, infantry training vol 4, pamphlet no: 5, the self-loading rifle, 7.62mm LIA1 and automatic rifle, 7.62mm L2A1 (all corps), 1983
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Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Book - Doctoral Thesis, "A History of Churchill Island Settlement, Land Use and the Making of a Heritage Site", May 2015
Dr Sanders' doctoral thesis provides a historical overview of the myriad owners and occupiers of Churchill Island from 1850 - 1929 while contextualising it with models of forming and collecting public history. This thesis involves a significant amount of original research and provides clarity and information on the previously obscured history of the Churchill Island Heritage Farm and precinct.This thesis gives new and unique information relating to the history of Churchill Island and has future research potentialA4 book, green hardback cover. Double sided print; b& w photos and maps"To the Friends of Churchill Island Society past, present and future./ Many thanks for your friendship and support. I could not have finished without you. /The errors that remain (and there are likely to be some!) are all my own fault./ I hope that this is of some use, even if I don't really solve the mystery of the location of the 1801 garden. May you forever "Preserve that which is precious". /Rebecca, 14th May 2016". churchill island, thesis, land use, settlement, heritage site, history, dr sanders, dr rebecca sanders -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Plan, B A Carter, Land Plan Primary School 1427 Port Melb, c. 1975
The design for extensive planting and landscaping of Nott Street Primary School, Port MelbournePlan of Landscape design for Nott Street Primary School, Port Melbourne.education - primary schools, nott street primary school -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Brolga Publishing, Venturing into no man's land: The charmed life of Joseph Maxwell VC World War I hero, 2012
The the compelling story of Lieutenant Joseph "Darkie" Maxwell DCM, MC and Bar, VC – the second highest decorated Australian soldier of the First World War."A flash blinds me... We are lost in a chaos of flying mud... Smoke, filth,confusion, racket! I spit and splutter and swear... Oh Christ! I think I'm flamin' well dead." This is the compelling story of Lieutenant Joseph "Darkie" Maxwell DCM, MC and Bar, VC – the second highest decorated Australian soldier of the First World War. Meticulously researched by historian John Ramsland, Maxwell's colourful life is traced from his childhood on the Hunter coalfields until his death at age 71 in a soldier's settlement home in Matraville Sydney. Maxwell was a vivid storyteller who wrote Hells Bells and Mademoiselles, telling of his experiences in the war. In telling Maxwell's story, Ramsland has uncovered many forgotten documents to piece together an extraordinary life of an extraordinary man.index, ill, maps, p.343.non-fictionThe the compelling story of Lieutenant Joseph "Darkie" Maxwell DCM, MC and Bar, VC – the second highest decorated Australian soldier of the First World War."A flash blinds me... We are lost in a chaos of flying mud... Smoke, filth,confusion, racket! I spit and splutter and swear... Oh Christ! I think I'm flamin' well dead." This is the compelling story of Lieutenant Joseph "Darkie" Maxwell DCM, MC and Bar, VC – the second highest decorated Australian soldier of the First World War. Meticulously researched by historian John Ramsland, Maxwell's colourful life is traced from his childhood on the Hunter coalfields until his death at age 71 in a soldier's settlement home in Matraville Sydney. Maxwell was a vivid storyteller who wrote Hells Bells and Mademoiselles, telling of his experiences in the war. In telling Maxwell's story, Ramsland has uncovered many forgotten documents to piece together an extraordinary life of an extraordinary man.wold war 1914-1918 - campaigns - western front, joseph maxwell - biography -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Doubleday, Great land battles of World War II, 1987
Illustrated history of the major battles of World war IIIndex, ill, maps, p.192.non-fictionIllustrated history of the major battles of World war IIworld war 1939-1945 - pictorial works, world war 1939-1945 - history -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Octopus Books, World War II : land, sea & air battles, 1939-1945, 1977
Illustrated history of the main battles of WIIndex, ill, maps, p.253.non-fictionIllustrated history of the main battles of WIworld war 1939-1945 - history, world war 1939-1945 - pictorial works -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Octopus Books, Epic land battles, 1976
Descriptions of world famous battles that span the course of modern military history from Yorktown to the battle of the bulge.Index, ill, maps, p.256.non-fictionDescriptions of world famous battles that span the course of modern military history from Yorktown to the battle of the bulge.military conflict - history, military art and science - history -
Healesville Sanctuary Heritage Centre
Newspaper - Cutting, The Sun News-Pictorial, Melbourne, Land Needed For Wild Life Reserve. Sanctuary to get Crate of Pythons, 7 July 1950
Suggestion of 400 acres of Coranderrk reserve be acquired by Sanctuary. A crate of pythons is being sent from QueenslandPhotocopynon-fictionSuggestion of 400 acres of Coranderrk reserve be acquired by Sanctuary. A crate of pythons is being sent from Queensland1950s -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Pamphlet, Bon Viet Cong Va Be Lu Se Khong the Ton Tai Duoc Tren Phan Dat Nay - the Viet Cong and their gang will bot be able to survive in this land
Sketch of villager facing GVN Soldiers, Aircraft and Armour. With writing on back.pamphlet, psycological warfare, propaganda, nva/vc -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Booklet, Australian Army: Manual of Land Warfare, Part two: Infantry Training. Vol 7, Pamphlet No. 1: Mine, Anti-Personnel, M18A1 (Claymore) (All Corps). Amendment List No. 1, 1979
australia - armed forces - service manuals, land warfare -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Recoiless rifle on Land Rover, 1968
Three colour Photograph in a black frame. Top - soldier loads shell into Recoiless Rifle Middle - Side view of Recoiless Rifle on Landrover at Nui Dat 1968 Bottom - Soldier loading shellphotograph, nui dat, recoiless rifle -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Miller, David and Foss, Christopher F, Modern Land Combat, 1987
The organisation of this book follows the established style of the successful series of which if forms part. In combination with the earlier titles devoted to Modern Air Combat, Modern fighting Helicopters, Modern Naval Combat and Modern Submarine Warfare, it completes a detailed, graphically illustrated survey of the technology, hardware and tactics involved in all the main areas of current military activity.The organisation of this book follows the established style of the successful series of which if forms part. In combination with the earlier titles devoted to Modern Air Combat, Modern fighting Helicopters, Modern Naval Combat and Modern Submarine Warfare, it completes a detailed, graphically illustrated survey of the technology, hardware and tactics involved in all the main areas of current military activity.military art and science, weapons -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Wiest, Andrew ed, Rolling thunder in a gentle land: the Vietnam War revisited (Copy 2)
vietnam war, 1961-1975, vietnam -- history -- 1945-1975 -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, The Face of Viet-Nam: The Land and The People (Copy 2)
South Viet-Nam - a thousand miles long; its greatest width a seventh of that. Sub-tropical heat; and the bitter nights of mile high mountains.South Viet-Nam - a thousand miles long; its greatest width a seventh of that. Sub-tropical heat; and the bitter nights of mile high mountains.vietnam - description and travel, vietnam - social conditions -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, The Face of Viet-Nam: The Land and The People (Copy 3)
South Viet-Nam - a thousand miles long; its greatest width a seventh of that. Sub-tropical heat; and the bitter nights of mile high mountains.South Viet-Nam - a thousand miles long; its greatest width a seventh of that. Sub-tropical heat; and the bitter nights of mile high mountains.vietnam - description and travel, vietnam - social conditions -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Rolling thunder in a gentle land: the Vietnam War revisited (Copy 1)
vietnam war, 1961-1975, vietnam - history - 1945-1975 -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Arthurs, Ted G. (Command Sergeant Major), Land With No Sun: A Year in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne
You know it's going to be hot when your brigade is referred to as a fireball unit. From May 1967 through May 1968, the Sky Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne were in the thick of it, humping eighty-pound rucksacks through triple-canopy jungle and chasing down the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam.You know it's going to be hot when your brigade is referred to as a fireball unit. From May 1967 through May 1968, the Sky Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne were in the thick of it, humping eighty-pound rucksacks through triple-canopy jungle and chasing down the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam.united states. army. airborne brigade, 173rd -- history, vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- regimental histories -- united states -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Balaban, John, Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew
Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew helps put Vietnam in a new context, a perspective necessary if Americans are to understand Vietnam and the place it occupies in our nation's history.Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew helps put Vietnam in a new context, a perspective necessary if Americans are to understand Vietnam and the place it occupies in our nation's history.vietnam - description and travel, vietnam - pictorial works -
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Photograph, Melissa POWELL, Thirsty land, 2011
Purchased through the Horsham Art Gallery Trust Fund, 2011inkjet print on cotton rag paperSigned, editioned and titled in pencil, lower edge -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Exiled From The Holy Land by Horst Blaich, 2009
Tells the story of the loss of the Templer Settlements in Palestine. Soft covered book with title in black bold print at top, a picture of "Empire Comfort" on front. 220 pages.With compliments Horst Blaich 2011 (received 2020) on inside page. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, From the Holy Land to the Home of the Kangaroo by Walter Stenner
Copy of a diary kept by Walter Odorich STENNER, a monk of the Roman Catholic Church. He was taken into custody in Jerusalem by the British Administration of Palestine and interned. This his account of time interned.180 pages in plastic sleeves.walter stenner, roman catholic monks, palestine internees -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Heidelberg. The land and its people. 1889 - 1900, 1972
History of Heidelberg, a suburb of MelbourneGreen hardcover, green dust cover, red printing on white background. Picture in black of elderly gentleman and old home. Presented to Tatura & District Historical Society by J Forster 27-06-1990heidelberg victoria, victorian suburbs -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Das Land Ohne Herz, 1942
Property of internee at Camp 3, TaturaHard cover, bound German travel book. Subject : A trip in unknown AmericaJ 205book, das land ohne herz, bissinger g, wied g, camp 3, tatura, ww2, books, history, local, travel -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Register of Land 1955-1956, 1955
Register of Lands in Tatura district with apportioned water rights 1955-56Beige covers, red spine, black lettering. Rodney Irrigaton and Water Supply District 28.10.1955.farming and irrigation, books, irrigation, rural, industry -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Programmes, Biggs Printing, Shepparton, Land of Smiles, 1978-1979
1 of 3 programmes of Turaton Musical Company Productions in 1978, 1979 and 1995. Each programme of 8 pages with synopsis and photographs of players. Introductions to principal artists. Some history of the group and credits. Two other programmes L0596 and L0597Musical productions local groups -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Department of Agriculture Victori, Soil and Land Use in Part of the Goulburn Valley Victoria Technical Bulletin No 14, 1962
Mid sized book with soft cover, brown spine with off white cover. Black writing on back and front. Contains maps. Tech Bulletin No 14.non-fictiongoulburn valley, soil studies victoria, victorian maps -
Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Rice, M. V, Queens' land (Rice, W. V.), Mytholmroyd, [nd]
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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, The Holy Land Called by Sauer, 1991
Prof.Dr. Paul Sauer presents a comprehensive history of the Temple Society based on 10 years of intensive research work in various archives and during personal visits to Israel and AustraliaOrange hard cover book with black and white text with photo of church and congregation on the front cover and text on the backTo the Tatura and District Historical Society with compliments from the Temple Society. Signed by the President. August 1991"the holy land called", sauer p, palestine group, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, books, history, local -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Land of the Southern Cross, 1955-56
Produced to publicise Australia at the time of Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956Blue background with stars of Sourthern Cross in gold with representatives of Australian emblem on front inside cover and fly leaf and on corresponding back, the kiala and lyrebirdcommonwealth of australia, olympic games, new guinea, sport -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Booklet, Gipps-Land-Gate, 1989
To help members foster interest in and preserve information, historical items, photographsBlue cover, black lettering, showing produce market, horse drawn vehicles. Vol. 15 No. 3 Jan-March, 1989gippsland history, books, history, local