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National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Pfennigwerth, Ian, Tiger territory: the untold story of the Royal Australian Navy in Southeast Asia from 1948 - 1971
Between 1948, when Australia assumed strategic responsibility for British Commonwealth sea lines of communication to and from Southeast Asia and 1971, when the Five Power Defence Arrangements came into effect, ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy served with almost unnoticed distinction in defending the newly emerging nations of Malaya, Malaysia and Singapore.Between 1948, when Australia assumed strategic responsibility for British Commonwealth sea lines of communication to and from Southeast Asia and 1971, when the Five Power Defence Arrangements came into effect, ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy served with almost unnoticed distinction in defending the newly emerging nations of Malaya, Malaysia and Singapore.australia. royal australian navy - history - 20th century, australia - military relations - southeast asia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Fall, Bernard, Vietnam Witness 1953-66
In 1958, Saigon and Washington were hailing South Viet-Nam's "success story" - and Bernard Fall was predicting all-out guerrilla war. Five years later, American soldiers had joined South Vietnamese troops in a desperate struggle against the elusive Viet-Cong.In 1958, Saigon and Washington were hailing South Viet-Nam's "success story" - and Bernard Fall was predicting all-out guerrilla war. Five years later, American soldiers had joined South Vietnamese troops in a desperate struggle against the elusive Viet-Cong.vietnam - politics and govrnment, vietnam - history -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Crowe, Ambrose, The Battle After The War: The story of Australia's Vietnam Veterans (Copy 1), 1999
Just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned 280 Vietnam veterans have officially been recognized as having committed suicide.Just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned 280 Vietnam veterans have officially been recognized as having committed suicide.vietnam veterans association of australia, 1961-1975 - australia, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - social aspects -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Crowe, Ambrose, The Battle After the War: The story of Australia's Vietnam Veterans (Copy 8), 1999
Just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned 280 Vietnam veterans have officially reen recognised as having committed suicide.Just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned 280 Vietnam veterans have officially reen recognised as having committed suicide.vietnam veterans association of australia, vietnamese conflict , 1961-1975 - australia, 1961-1975 - social aspects -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Little, Ken, Cease Fire: Courage Under Fire. Vietnam And Other Conflicts, 2020
Cease Fire is a must read story about the lives of five men from Sydney's Northern Beaches who were involved in the Vietnam War, and another whose life was affected by the Second World War. The stories in Cease Fire are compelling and educate readers about the effects of war on human lives. It is ironic that the war did not cease for many returned soldiers - the firing never stopped.Six Vietnam Veterans' stories of their time in Vietnam.Cease Fire is a must read story about the lives of five men from Sydney's Northern Beaches who were involved in the Vietnam War, and another whose life was affected by the Second World War. The stories in Cease Fire are compelling and educate readers about the effects of war on human lives. It is ironic that the war did not cease for many returned soldiers - the firing never stopped. 1961 - 1975 -- veterans -- australia, 1961 - 1975 - veterans - australia - biography, vietnam war, 1961 - 1975, personal narratives - australian -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Crowe, Ambrose, The Battle After The War: The Story of Australia's Vietnam (Copy 2)
just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicide.just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicide.combat disorders, chemical warfare, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - social aspects - australia, vietnam veterans' association of australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Crowe, Ambrose, The Battle After The War: The Story of Australia's Vietnam (Copy 3)
just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicidejust over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicidecombat disorders, chemical warfare, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - social aspects - australia, vietnam veterans' association of australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Crowe, Ambrose, The Battle After The War: The story of Australia's Vietnam (Copy 4)
just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicide.just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicide.combat disorders, chemical warfare, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - social aspects - australia, vietnam veterans' association of australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Crowe, Ambrose, The Battle After The War: The Story of Australia's Vietnam (Copy 5)
just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicidejust over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicidecombat disorders, chemical warfare, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - social aspects - australia, vietnam veterans' association of australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, The Battle After The War: The Story of Australia's Vietnam (Copy 6)
just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicide.just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicide.combat disorders, chemical warfare, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - social aspects - australia, vietnam veterans' association of australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, The Battle After The War: The Story of Australia's Vietnam (Copy 7)
just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicide.just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially be recognized as having committed suicide.combat disorders, chemical warfare, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - social aspects - australia, vietnam veterans' association of australia -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Captured Lives, 2018
Story of the internees and pow's behind the barbed wire veil that was drawn around people deemed threats to Australia's security. Soft covered book. Front cover has 6 photos of internees with their id numbers. In middle is title. Authors name at bottom. Spine is brown coloured with title, author and photo of internee. Back cover has two photos, Group of adults and children and a soldier with gun and five men with hands in air. 266 pagesCaptured Lives Australia's Wartime Internment Campsaustralian internment camps, australian pow's, peter monteath, loveday internment camp -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, The Uncles, The Story of the Heyde Brothers, 2011
Written by Margaret Bowering a neice of the Heyde Brothers.Brown soft cover book with photo of five men in work clothes on front.german migrants, western australia, internment camp 1 tatura, books, biography -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Captured Lives, 2018
Story of the internees and pow's behind the barbed wire veil that was drawn around people deemed threats to Australia's security. Soft covered book. Front cover has 6 photos of internees with their id numbers. In middle is title. Authors name at bottom. Spine is brown coloured with title, author and photo of internee. Back cover has two photos, Group of adults and children and a soldier with gun and five men with hands in air. 266 pagesCaptured Lives Australia's Wartime Internment Campsaustralian internment camps, australian pow's, peter monteath, loveday internment camp -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Aldo Massola, Journey to Aboriginal Victoria, 1969
Looks at the Aboriginal community from the time of white contact, across many parts of Victoria. Chap.1; Melbourne - early missions, camp of Native Police, corroboree trees, canoe trees, grave &? headstone of Derrimut; quarries at Keilor, excavation sites at Green Gully &? Keilor; quarry at Mt. William, notes on inheritance of quarries Coranderrk settlement - Barraks grave, notes on his life; Chap.2; Geelong - Yawangi group of the Wothowurong tribe, camping grounds in area quarries; Notes on William Buckley, Gellibrand (a notable Aboriginal), graves in the Western Cemetery; Chap.3; Colac - war between Colac &? Geelong tribes; Mission at Birregurra, reason for failure of Buntingdale Mission; brass plate to Coc-coc-coine; reserve at Elliminyt, native ovens, camp sites, initiation site &? ritual; quarry sites, axegrinding factory, rock pecking &? engraving; dried hand &? 3 Aboriginal skulls found; Chap.4; The south-west coast - middens, camp sites notes on Framlingham Stn., fish traps at Tyrendarra; Chap.5; The far west - massacres of Aborigines near Casterton; camp sites, oven mounds; the first cricket team formed; Aboriginal cemetery; Chap.6; Hamilton - camps; Mount Rouse Station, axegrinding grooves at Nareeb Nareeb, shelters described, fish traps, massacre at Lake Condah; mission; canoes; Chap.7; Camperdown - legend about Lake Bullen Merri; obelisk erected in memory of Aborigines of district especially chief Wombeetch Puyuun; Jarcoort tribe; fish weirs, camps, intertribal fights between Booluc-burrers, Jarcoorts &? Ellengermote groups; bartering place at Mount Noorat; articles traded, legend of Flat-Top Hill; Chap.8; Ballarat - camp at Lake Wendouree; White Stone Lagoon; legends concerning Mt. Buninyong &? waterfalls at Lal-lal; camp sites; pygmy-type implements near Meredith, quarry at Glue Pot Rocks near Durdidwarrah; brass plate of King Billy; Chap.9; Ararat - Tjapwurong territory; camp sites, quarries, shield &? canoe trees; Bunyip belief at Lake Buninjon of Muk-jarawaint &? Pirtkopen-noot tribes, gives legend; stone implements; mill stones; fish weirs; stone arrangement near Lake Wongan; ground drawing of a bunyip, paintings in rock shelter near Mt. Langi Ghiran; Chap.10; Maryborough - camps, oven mounds, rock wells, stone arrangement at Carisbrook; camp sites at Mt. Franklin; Chap.11; Charlton - belief in Mindye (snake); canoe trees, ovens, camp sites, water holes, rock wells, stone implements; method of rainmaking; Chap.12; Horsham-Stawell, The Wimmera - Wotjobaluk land; camps, fish traps at Toolondo; Black Range cave paintings, Flat Rock shelters (detailed account of these paintings); Bunjils Cave; Chap.13; Horsham-Stawell, The Mallee - camp sites, implements; Ebenezer Mission, Willie Wimmera taken to England by Rev. Chase to become a missionary, died in England; Chap.14; The Murray River, Mildura Swan Hill - Battle of the Rufus; ceremonial ground, Lake Gol Gol, canoe &? shield trees; stone implements; camp sites, fire place arrangements; fish traps; oven mounds; Chap.15; The Murray River, Swan Hill-Echuca - legend about Lake Boga; camps, oven mounds, the Cohuna skull, Kow Swamp, method of burial; Chap.16; Shepparton ovens; brass plates of King Paddy of Kotupna &? King Tattambo of Mulka Stn., native well, camps; Chap.17; Wangaratta -camps, quarry, rock holes, the Faithful massacre; grinding rocks at Earlston; Chap.18; The High Plains - Ya-itma-thang; camps, Bogong moth feasts, native paths for trade &? intertribal fights, articles traded; painted shelters; Koetong Ck. Valley, near Mt. Pilot &? near Barwidgee Ck.; Chap.19; Dandenong - water holes, list of 8 holes in Beaumaris - Black Rock area; camps, middens, stone implements (microliths), legend of Angels Cave, stone axes, Native Police Force, Narre Narre Warren Station, legend about rocks on Bald Hill, kangaroo totemic site; Chap.20; Wonthaggi- Yarram - natives visit Phillip Is., murder of William Cook and Yankee by five Tasmanians (listed as Bon Small Boy, Jack Napoleon Timninaparewa, Fanny Waterpoordeyer, Matilda Nattopolenimma and Truganini) near Cape Patterson, men; camp sites, middens, legend of White Rock; Chap.21; Sale - Bairnsdale, The Lakes Country middens, camps; legend at Wulrunjeri; story of a white woman supposedly living with with the Tutangolung tribe, efforts made to prove story; canoe trees; Chap.22; Sale-Bairnsdale, The Inland Braiakolung tribe, camps, implements, canoe &? shield trees; Ramahyuck Mission, grinding rocks, fights with Omeo tribe; native tracks, death through enemy magic - procedure, belief in ghosts; Chap.23; Lakes Entrance and the Country to the east - Kroatungolung people, legend of Kalimna Valley; camps, stones of Nargun, bunyip, devils at Lake Tyers, excavation at Buchan, carbon dates; middens, ochre at Cape Conrad, stone fish-hook file at Thurra River; note on Bidwel tribe; Each chapter gives historical details, early contacts, relationships with settlers; Aboriginal place names and detailed description of sites and geographical features.b&w photographs, b&w illustrations, colour illustrationsgeelong, colac, hamilton, camperdown, ballarat, ararat, maryborough, charlton, horsham, stawell, murray river, shepparton, wangaratta, dandenong, wonthaggi, yarram, sale, bairnsdale, lakes entrance -
Melbourne Athenaeum Archives
Flyer, Poster & newspaper article, Prediction Piece 8: Winter/Passion Lyndal Jones performed at the Athenaeum 2 commencing 15th July 1986
Transferred from original performance location in Fitzroy to Melbourne Athenaeum Theatre. The Elizabethan Trust production was performed after a season at the Sydney Biennale. The performance consisted of five, 20-minute variations on a fictional love story. The theatre review by Leonard Radic comments: This kind of performance theatre is an attempt to cross the boundaries between art and theatre. It is genuinely experimental in that it seeks to give new meaning to old situations. ... It dares to be different.Large flyer, 2 small flyers and newspaper articleprediction piece 8: winter/passion, lyndal jones, athenaeum theatre, the australian elizabethan trust, program -
Clunes Museum
Photograph
... SEMMENS. FIRST STAGE OF POST OFFICE - SINGLE STORY BUILDING... OF POST OFFICE - SINGLE STORY BUILDING WITH FIVE CHIMNEYS ...PHOTOGRAPH COPIED FROM EARLIER PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. E J SEMMENS. FIRST STAGE OF POST OFFICE - SINGLE STORY BUILDING WITH FIVE CHIMNEYS, SECTIONS OF BUILDING BUILT WITH SMALL BRICKS. GALVANISED IRON FENCE.BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH CLUNES POST OFFICE ON SITE OF FORMER POST OFFICE. SINGLE STORIED BUILDING WITH GALVANISED FENCING.On back of photo handwritten in pencil "Clunes" "Clunes Post Office on present site of Post Office" "Copied 30/5/48 EJS" Sticker with "P.D.C 810" handwritten in pencil "20/6" handwritten in pencillocal history, photography, photographs, post office -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, T. Browns Furniture Warehouse at 113 Main Street Stawell
T. Browns Furniture Warehouse photo taken around c 1870's. Four people standing outside the front of the furniture warehouse. The two story building has two display windows divided into three panes. The entrance door is glass with five arch windows on the second story. The address is 113 Main Street Stawell, later the site of the Coles store.Photograph appears to be taken from an original sepia photo of T. Brown's Furniture Warehouse. The two story building has two display windows on the ground floor with four people standing on the footpath outside the building.T. Brown's Furniture Warehouse Ironmongers T. Brown's Timber Merchant stawell t. browns furniture warehouse business -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Robinson, Roland Edward, The man who sold his dreaming, 1977
Blurb: The title of this book is taken from the story of an Aboriginal who sold his 'dreaming', or sacred tribal birthright, to the white man for five sovereigns and two bottles of rum. In collecting and reporting these stories, Roland Robinson has retained the style of speaking of each Aboriginal narrator. The stories are actually verbatim narratives, and Robinson was taken by his Aboriginal friends in New South Wales to visit the sacred mountains, rivers, rocks, and waterholes that are featured in this book.143 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.Blurb: The title of this book is taken from the story of an Aboriginal who sold his 'dreaming', or sacred tribal birthright, to the white man for five sovereigns and two bottles of rum. In collecting and reporting these stories, Roland Robinson has retained the style of speaking of each Aboriginal narrator. The stories are actually verbatim narratives, and Robinson was taken by his Aboriginal friends in New South Wales to visit the sacred mountains, rivers, rocks, and waterholes that are featured in this book.aboriginal australians -- folklore. | legends -- new south wales. -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Image, c1990
This photograph is of the viewing room inside the Gold Battery building, with story boards on the wall. One of a series of photographs of the Rutherglen Gold Battery. Its purpose was to crush quartz from nearby quartz reefs and extract gold from within. The battery was erected in 1908 and consists of a five-head battery, Wilfrey table, Bergin pan, portable steam engine and shed. The battery was restored in 2011/12 and can be viewed daily between 9.00am and 5.00pm. See website for details.Colour photograph of the interior of a building showing three story boards mounted on a corrugated iron wall.gold battery, gold processing -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Stained Glass at the St John of God Hospital Chapel [detail], 2017, 2017
The five stained glass windows were made by Rosemary Spencer. to the design of Bruce Hutton. The stained glass depicts the story of St John of God in Ballarat. Bruce Hutton of Almond Glass Works designed the stained glass window and did the hand painting for the Chapel in St John of God, Ballarat. Almond Glassworks was responsible for the overall construction and installation of the window. The concept was developed with the then head of mission, Maureen Waddington. The window was installed on the 30th of October 2019. Almond Glassworks was founded by Bruce Hutton in 1994. He completed a Fine Arts Degree (Chisholm Institute of Technology) majoring in stained glass in 1988, he then went on to work in the industry both in Australia, England and South Africa. He completed a Postgraduate (Monash University) in 1996, focusing on the conservation and restoration techniques of stained glass. Colour photograph of a detail of stained glass windows at the Chapel of the Visitation at St John of God Hospital, Ballarat.stained glass, st john of god hospital, ballarat, ship, immigration -
Unions Ballarat
Eureka and Beyond: Monty Miller his own story, Published 1988
Monty Miller was a miner who fought at Eureka. He continued to be active around industrial and political matters after the battle of Eureka. Around the first world war, he led the campaign against conscription and, subsequently, was sentenced to six months of hard labour (at age eighty five). This book is his autobiography.Autobiographical interest. Pertinent to the history of Ballarat.Paper; book. Front cover: yellow background; black and white photo of Monty Miller; blue image of Southern Cross flag; blue and black text. Back cover: orange.Front cover: editor's and author's names. Title page: handwritten in ink, "To dear Angas, love Chris, Jan and Alex."btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, miller, montague, miller, monty, autobiography, eureka stockade, world war i, conscription, socialists - australia -
Tramways/East Melbourne RSL Sub Branch - RSL Victoria Listing id: 27511
Book, Duncan McNab et al, MISSION 101(The untold story of five Australian soldiers' extraordinary war in Ethiopia), 2011
... MISSION 101(The untold story of five Australian soldiers... Historical ISBN: 9781742610429 MISSION 101(The untold story of five ...940.5423, historical, isbn: 9781742610429 -
Melbourne Legacy
Programme, Legacy Club. A Century Revue...'This Will Be The Place', 1934
Eight page theatre program of 'This Will Be the Place' Melbourne Legacy Display held at the Garrick Theatre Friday 9th November 1934, 28th - 29th November 1934. The revue was conceived, written and composed by Legacy Club. It related five chapters in Victoria's history from the first 100 years following the career of a family of pioneers from 1835 through various generations. Includes the story of the play, a genealogical tree of the White family, summaries of the program including music, skits and tableau. Proceeds for welfare work among the sons and daughters of deceased soldiers. The performance on the 9th November was performed for delegates that had come to Melbourne for the annual National Conference as well as the public. A second copy was found with autograph signatures on the back cover. Both copies kept.A record that Melbourne Legacy was involved in promoting cultural events as a way of raising funds for their work as early at 1934.Eight page theatre program of Melbourne Junior Legacy Display 'This Will Be the Place'.Back cover is signed in pencil with autographs.fundraising, gala performance -
Melbourne Legacy
Photograph - Fundraising, Brighton Grammar Fundraising, 1995
A group of eight Brighton Grammar Junior School boys holding a plaque with the Legacy torch emblem and 5 men. The photo was featured in The Answer in November 1995. The accompanying story was : FUNDRAISING. The boys from Grade 6 at Brighton Grammar Junior School raised $6,150 from the sale of Legacy badges this year - an increase of $1,550 over last year. Over the past five years the boys have raised in excess of $16,000. We are most grateful for their outstanding efforts. Names unknown.A record of Brighton Grammar School fundraising for Legacy.Colour photos x 4 of boys at Brighton Grammar.fundraising, answer, brighton grammar -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document (Item) - McDonnell Masterpiece story The Five Grand Fighter F4 Phantom with line drawing (Photocopies)
... McDonnell Masterpiece story The Five Grand Fighter F4... Moorabbin melbourne Document McDonnell Masterpiece story The Five ... -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "New brochure welcomes lake visitors", 12/03/1996 12:00:00 AM
Newspaper cutting from The Courier, Ballarat, Tuesday 12/3/1996 of photos of the Begonia Festival Parade on 11/3 (previous day) in Wendouree Parade. Also has a story about the Street Organ of Damon O'Donoghue. Included in the five photos are one of the street organ and one of the crowd lined up in Wendouree Parade with tram 38 and 661 in the background.trams, tramways, begonia festival, street parade, street organ -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Magazine, William. F. Scott, "Back to the Future in Ballarat", Old Glory Feb. 2000, Feb. 2000
Article written by Bill Scott on the reconstruction of the Horse Tram, No. 1, by the BTM in the Feb. 2000 issue of 'Old Glory', a UK Magazine that features items on the restoration/reconstruction of old vehicles. Article tells the story of the horse tram in Ballarat, the recovery of the vehicle, its reconstruction and return to service. Features five photographs. The magazine 84 page, A4 size with colour and black and white photographs of steam and other vintage vehicles. Published by CMS Publishing. Details of publisher in front cover.trams, tramways, horse trams, btm, reconstruction, restoration -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Walkabout Magazine, "The Road to Bendigo", Oct. 1974
Yields information about the final day of the Bendigo tramways and some of the tramcars used.Three double sided sheets from "The Walkabout" magazine, October 1964, titled "The Road to Bendigo". Five printed pages featuring photographs of Bendigo, its buildings, its history stories, gold mining days and other information, including three illustrations containing trams. .1 - Charing Cross with bogies and single trucker - taken early 1960's. Photo by A. Doney. Features the intersection, with Ezywalkin store. Note the "Jeffrey's bread" roof advertisement on the single trucker. .2 - Bogie tram on the Eaglehawk route prior to any nearby housing development - reclaimed mining land - has Castrol roof advertisement - photo by Claver P Carroll. .3 - No. 6 outside The Beehive stores - 3BO - photo by Claver P Carroll. bendigo, eaglehawk, charing cross -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Pull a tram, and help the SES", 19/02/1994 12:00:00 AM
Newspaper clipping from The Courier, Ballarat, 19/2/1994, titled "Pull a tram, and help the SES". Item about Begonia Festival Ambassador Award Entrant, Jamieson Arnott preparing for a tram pull event to raise funds. Has photo of No. 1, Frank Puls on the steps, Jamieson and five volunteers from the SES pulling the tram along No. 2 road at the depot. Story by Dennis Torpy."Courier 19/2/94" in ink along the top edge.tram pull, fund raising, ses