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Chiltern Athenaeum Trust
WW1 Victory Medal - Pte. A.E. Hollis, 1914-1918
WW1 The Great War 1914-1918 Pte. A. E. Hollis Chiltern Resident Victory Medal WW1 serviceWW1 The Great War - issued for service overseas : Victory Medal 1914-1918. Pte. A. E. Hollis Chiltern Resident. Design The medal is bronze with a winged figure of Victory on the obverse. The reverse has the words ‘THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION’, all surrounded by a laurel wreath. Ribbon The ribbon has a ‘two rainbow’ design, with the violet from each rainbow on the outside edges moving through to a central red stripe where both rainbows meet. The medal is bronze with a winged figure of Victory on the obverse. The reverse has the words ‘THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION’, all surrounded by a laurel wreath. Ribbon The ribbon has a ‘two rainbow’ design, with the violet from each rainbow on the outside edges moving through to a central red stripe where both rainbows meet. ww1 1914-1918, victory medal ww1, pte. a. e. hollis, chiltern resident. -
Chiltern Athenaeum Trust
WW1 AIF Issue Leather Leggings for Mounted Troops (Light Horse), pre WW1 Circa 1899 o 1918
Associated with mounted Light Horse units within WW1 (1914-1918). Issued to soldiers in Light Horse Units. Associated with WW1 Light Horse Units. Leggings worn by soldiers on horseback in WW1 1914-1918. A pair (2 off) WW1 Leather Leggings for Mounted AIF soldiers. The leggings are dark tan in colour with stitching to attach buckles and fastener straps. The strap buckles are made of brass and the leather legging straps are of same leather as leggings. Sizings : 115mm x 50mmNilww1 lighthorse leggings, uniform leggings for ww1 mounted soldiers, leather leggings ww1 1914-1918 -
Clunes Museum
Photograph, W.B. LATIMER (PHOTOGRAPHER), 1918
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH OF JIM AND AMY CLARK, (NEE HAMILTON) ; MARRIED 18TH MAY 1918. AMY LIVED AT AMHERST.SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH OF JIM AND AMY CLARK - WEDDING DAY, JIM SITTING, AMY STANDINGW.B.LATIMER, 222-4 GERTRUDE STREET FITZROYlocal history, photographs, clark, amyclark, jimhamilton, amy1918weddingamherst -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Post card, Reading War Hospital No. 3 Reading World War I, 1918
See other entries for Henri Claude RoussacPost Card of Staff and Patients at Reading War Hospital No.3 1918. Identified are Sister Clarke (Sister in Charge) centre, on her left is Sister Leadbetter and Right Sister Cobb. Second from right in second row is Staff Sergeant A. S. Woods. Henri Claude Roussac is seated in the front row but which is not known sister leadbetter, sister cobb, sister clarke, staff sergeant a. s. woods., henri claude roussac, wwi, a.i.f., british war hospitale, reading war hospital no. 3 -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book - The Family Church Newspaper November 26, 1910 - April 5, 1918, 1910-1918
Book with cardboard back and front. Black masking taped to side. Inside pages are printed with heading "The Church Family Newspaper". The pages are printed newspaper columns and articles within the columns. The pages are dated in the top right hand corner and starts at November 16, 1910 and the last legible page reads April 5, 1918. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - MALE WORKERS BENDIGO LOCOMOTIVE SHEDS C 1918, C 1918
black and white photo of large group of male workers outside wooden shed. Men wearing suits, some with hats and caps. Locomotive sheds ( brick building ) in background. Written on front F. Harrison, Photo, 161 Lyttleton Terrace, Bendigo. Written on back June Loco Sheds Bendigo 1918 see attachmentF. Harrison, 161 Lyttleton Terra e, Bendigoorganization, government, bendigo locomotive sheds -
Bendigo Military Museum
Poster - POSTER, ANZAC DAY, FRAMED, Australian Government, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Office of Australian War Graves
Poster, paper with white and red print. Montage in colour and black and white print of a collection of photographs, posters and postcards from WW1. Frame - cream enamel paint on timber frame with glass front and black cardboard backing with stand.Lettering on poster. "SCHOOLING, SERVICE/ AND THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918".framed accessories, poster, anzac day -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Badge / Medal Board
Wooden polished board with mounted 1914 -18 service medal, Victory Medal and Returned from Active service Badge (WWI)Sgt.H.D.Howells 8FAB served 1914 1918 Presented by the "Lambs of Moondarramedal, badge -
Bendigo Military Museum
Literary work - BOOK, New Testament, Est early 20th century
Belonged to Thomas Alan Broadbent No 15887 46th Batt KIA 20.9.18. Refer 2322.2 for service history also 2567P.Bible, cloth covered, hard cover, pocket size New Testament, 462 pages with red edges.On fly leaf hand written in ink. "Alan Broadbent 1918"books, religion -
Bendigo Military Museum
Honour Board - EMU CREEK S.S 228 HONOUR BOARD WW1, Post WW2
HONOR Roll Board, timber curved top with carved symbols of wattle & crossed rifles, sides are Doric columns. The roll covers both World Wars. “S.S.228.EMU CREEK, Roll of HONOR, 1914.......1918”civic mementoes - honour boards, military history-service records, emu creek -
Bendigo Military Museum
Currency - WALLET, WWI
The wallet was owned by Sgt Jack Grinton No 1043, 38th Batt AIF. Part of the Grinton collection which included hundreds of negatives and developed photos that he took during the Great War. Refer Cat No 1280 for service details. Refer 1317P, 1320P.Black leather wallet with flap and two pockets. Gift from YMCA.Printed on flap: "Xmas wishes from Australian YMCA 1918"personal effects-money containers, handcrafts-leatherwork -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - black and white, F.A. (Frank Anthony) Thomas: Australian WW1 AIF soldier
Frank Anthony Thomas was born at Daylesford and enlisted at Ballarat. On his enlistment papers of 9 August 1915, his next of Kin was Saul Thomas of Ascot, Victoria. This photo was found with a number of other World War One material associated with the Holmes family of Ascot, Victoria. Black and white photographic portrait of a World War One soldier in the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF). It is Frank A. Thomas. Verso "Sincerely yours F.A. Thomas, France March 1918."chatham family archive, chatham, holmes, world war, world war 1, world war i, world war one, france, frank anthony thomas -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, Federal Mill: Hattersley Loom
James Murgatroyd worked in the textile industry in England and in Victoria and New South Wales.The Murgatroyd CollectionHATTERSLEY LOOM/FEDERAL MILL - 1918/1920 FILM No10textile machinery textile mills weaving mills textile mills, federal woollen mills ltd collins bros mill pty ltd, murgatroyd, mr fred murgatroyd, mr james, textile machinery, textile mills, weaving mills -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
James Murgatroyd worked in textile mills in England, Victoria and NSW. His son Fred worked as a loom tuner at Yarra Falls, Tweedside and Collins mills in Victoria as well as in Sydney, and studied at Leeds University.The Murgatroyd CollectionSHUTTLES (TOP OF PHOTO) FEDERAL MILL - c.1918/1920textile machinery textile mills weaving mills textile mills, collins bros mill pty ltd tweedside woollen mills yarra falls mill federal woollen mills ltd, murgatroyd, mr fred murgatroyd, mr james, textile machinery, textile mills, weaving mills -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
WW1 Penny Collection, Circa 1900s
WW1 Penny collection in wooden box. Dates are 1 of each 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - and 1917.Wooden box inscribed WW1 Penny Collection 1914 - 1918. -
Ballarat RSL Sub-Branch Inc.
Ribbon
The Year of Peace 1919 "After the Great War 1914-1918"first world war (ww1), 1914 - 1918, collectables, ballarat rsl, ballarat -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - NOTE BOOK, 1918
Full name: Robert Sinclair John Mackay, POB Caithness, Scotland. Training notes: "B" is about bearings - navigation. "G" is for guard duty, "H" is for human frame with drawing and notes - skull to toes - bones. "H" is for hemisphere - finding north in north and south hemispheres. "M" Map reading. "Q" Quarter master rules. "R" Road Railway river recon report. "R" .303 Cartridge design and Ballistics. "R" - duties of an R.S.M. "S" - Stretcher drill. Syphilis, Gonorrhea. "ST" is for stables routine. "W" is for words of command, Ambulance formations. At the very back of the book, is a list of numbers in 3 columns. Mackay enlisted on 8.9.1914 No 907 in the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, embarked for Eygpt 2.2.1915, embark for Gallipoli 25.10.1915, Hospital 21.11.1915 (just said “Disc”) while in Eygpt he is hospitalised again with Bronchial Pneumonia rejoin unit 2.4.1916, hospital 6.11.1916 with Bruised Thigh, promoted Cpl 18.2.1918, hospital 4.8.1918 with Catarrhal Jaundice, rejoin unit 14.9.1918, promoted Sgt in the field 29.1.1919, hospital 26.4.1919 (unclear), hospital 20.6.1919 with Fractured right Disc, embark for England 23.7.1919, RTA 4.1.1920, Discharged from the AIF 22.2.1920. Pocket sized address book which has been used as a Training Exercise book. The cover is made of dark buckram. Inside are sections labelled A - Z, with lined pages or each section. First page has written in pencil: - “CPL ROBERT S. MACKAY, 907 3rd L.H.F.A. 3rd L.H. Brigade, A.M.D. MOASCAR 2 Jnay 1918”.ww1, lighthorse, training notes, 3rd field ambulance -
Federation University Historical Collection
Plan - Architectural Plans, Australian Natives' Association Ballarat Branch No 4 Architectural Plans
Percy Richards taught Architecture and Building Construction at The Ballarat Art School - a division of Ballarat School of Mines from 1918-1921. He was responsible for the design of a number of buildings in the district. This item is the "Specification of work required to be done and materiaals required for construction of the new A.N.A. Building at the corner of Sturt, Albert and Lewis Streets, Ballarat. Prepared by and to the satisfaction of P.S. Richards, A.R.V.I.A. Architect and subject to the General Conditions of Contract." "BALLARAT CITY A.N.A. BALLARAT, Wednesday — The Ballarat City branch, A.N.A., which was formed nearly 50 years ago, ranks fourth on the association records, but several of the members were prominent in establishing the association in Melbourne a year or two earlier. On the past half-year's operations the total funds increased by £1558/18/3 to £29.389/11/11. The membership now totals 949. The committee recommended that as the property at the corner of Sturt and Albert Streets, which had been intended as the site of a new hall, had been sold, steps should he taken to remodel the present hall, and bring It up to date. The report was adopted." (The Herald, 18 June 1924)Fourteen detailed drawings showing the specifications for each section of the new A.N.A. building for Ballarat. A 24 page document submitted to the Public Health Department, Victoria, received 15 January 1918 and a 3 page document related to Reinforced Concrete Particulars. All contained in a labelled black metal cylinder.A.N.A.4. PLANS painted on side and lid. Signature of P.S. Richards.ana, australian natives' association, architecture, percy richards, building specifications, ballarat, technical art school ballarat, materials, construction, p.s. richards, percival selwyn richards -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Ration Book, Pass containing Leave or Duty Ration Book, 1918
A grey light card covered book of ration coupons that was issued to Mo 2987 Spr Roney C, for his leave to London from 11/10/18 to 15/10/18. It contains 14 unused coupons for meat, butter, sugar, lard, cheese, tea and jam. Rationing Order 1918, Serial No P3 No 079442, N90ww1, ration book -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
GAZETTE DES ARDENNES, 5 MAY 1918. 4th year, No 621, German newspaper, in French, for the occupied territories, printed in Charleroi, Belgium. (TRANSLATED IN PART by W.Barber), 5 May 1918
Original, single page propaganda broadsheet, collected by Bob Snape, when he was working as Confidential Clerk to General Sir John Monash, with Australia Corps HQ, in Belgium, late 1918. Yellowed with age, but despite some tears along the folds and a hole the size of a 20 cent piece, it is a good legible document with a front-line mapsnape collection -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Medal - MEDAL COLLECTION: ANZAC DAY MEDAL, 1918
Object. Bronze medal issued by the Victorian Education Department and sold on behalf of the British Red Cross Society. With suspension piece at crest with suspension ring. Obverse: ''HONOR TO THE AIF''. Bust of Australian Soldier in a Slouch hat. Reverse: Around edge, ''EVO ANZAC DAY 1918''. In Centre: Spray of Wattle with porter. ''GALLIPOLI FRANCE PALESTINE''.numismatics, medals - military, anzac day medal, manufacturer; stokes and son melbourne. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Certificate of Title, 19/07/1918
Photocopy of Certificate of Title Vol. 4156 Folio 831198 for 43 acres Fronting on Canterbury Road near Mitcham Road, being part of Crown Portion 124, Parish of Nunawading, County of Bourke in the name of James Harley Malcolm, 19/7/1918. Last subdivision dated 22/5/1926- current site of Glenburnie Roadland subdivision, malcolm, james harley, mitcham road mitcham, glenburnie road mitcham, canterbury road mitcham, various surnames -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Blackburn College, 1914 - 1918
Used by Robin Da Costa in 'Blackburn - A Picturesque History'.Black and white photo of Blackburn College opened 1914. Local Blackburn Girls entertaining soldiers during 1914 - 1918 war. Joe Sword's Hall in the Background is now located in Lake Road as a Scout Hall. The first meeting of the Blackburn R.S.L. was held in Sword's Hall in 1927.|See page 81 of Da Costa book.sword, joe, blackburn college, blackburn returned servicemens league -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Manual - The Melbourne Electric Supply Co. Service and Wiring Rules, Melbourne Electric Supply Co. (MESCo), 1918
The Melbourne Electric Supply Co. operated a Power Station in Richmond and provided power to the Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust and the Hawthorn Tramways Trust. They also provided power to Geelong and operated the Geelong Tramway system. MESCo Geelong and Richmond operations were taken over the SECV in 1930. The book gives the requirements for wiring of building and switchboard. Yields information on the electrical requirements that electricians were required to work to where MESCo supplied electricity. It would have been used in the development of the SEC rules. Has a strong association with one of the MESCo Electrical Inspectors.Book - The Melbourne Electric Supply Co. Service and Wiring Rules - 64 pages, centre stapled, dark fawn covers. Provides rules for the Melbourne (Richmond) and Geelong undertakings. Dated 1/4/1918. Has a number of printed updates pasted into the book along with a typed and hand witten note. Price 6d. Has an index.Some hand written notes on the various clauses. Has the stamp of "Electric Inspector" in the top right hand corner. Numerous marks of red and blue pencil to high light specific clauses.rules, wiring, electrical, regulations, mesco, geelong, tramways -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1914 TO 1918
Official History of Australia in the war of 1914-1918 Vol VI The AIF in France 1918 - The Armistice by C.E.W. Bean , published by Angus & Robertson 89 Castlereagh St Sydney 1942 , faded maroon hard bound covered book with gold lettering , inside cover signed A.E./ Emmerson , 74 Sternberg St Bendigo , 530 illustrations and maps ,C.E.W. Beanbooks, military, the aif in france 1918 - the armistice / c.e.w. bean -
Montmorency/Eltham RSL Sub Branch
Craft - World War 1 Embroidered Banner, WW1 Victory to the Allies Banner, 1918-1919
Framed World War One embroidered banner. Multicoloured flags of the Allies and the words 'Victory for the Allies' are embroidered on a blue background, with a crown at the top, a lifebuoy in the centre and a floral sheaf at the bottom.Victory for the Alliesembroidery, world war one, 1918, 1919, world, war, one, banner, allies -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Digital image, John Gibson et al, John Cecil Jessop in Paris 1919, 01/12/1918
Postcard from Cecil John Jessop to Wal Luxford 1st December 1918. Photograph of Cec Jessop in uniform taken in Paris.Digital copy of black and white photograph. luxford family, cecil jessop -
St Kilda Historical Society
Ephemera - Special event program, Great Victory Demonstration, 1918
Program of victory celebration held at St Kilda Town Hall on 12 November 1918. Includes words to anthems and popular songs.Folded single sheet of white paper, discoloured with age, printed in dark bluewwi peace celebrations -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Booklets, Waterlow Bros & Layton, Ltd, Leave or duty ration books, Circa 1915
These booklets were issued to Soldiers and/or Sailors for the purchase of food,etc whilst on leave.They were only valid from the time your leave began until it finishes.Pass containing Leave or Duty Ration Book - Pte J.L. McIntyre issued 1918.Both are rectangular in shape.One is yellow in colour,the other is grey.Leave or duty ration book. Soldier or Sailor.booklet,ration book,lara r.s.l., mcintyre collection -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book - Bible, Cambridge University Press, New Testament, c. 1916
New Testament, olive hardcover. Black print and wreath on front cover. 'NEW TESTAMENT SOUVENIR OF PEACE WORLD WIDE WAR 1914 - 1918'