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Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, MOUNTED, c.1920 post WWI
Black & white photo of a group of Officers in full uniform, peaked caps, jackets, Sam Brown's, leggings & boots. In centre is the Governor General wearing suit, bowler hat, walking stick. Photo taken in front of a wooden building with a double door & light overhead. Photo mounted on grey cardboard with fawn back.Back of photo: Officer's names in pencil Bottom RHS front of backboard in gold: Phone 4397 'DARGE' 175 Collins Street Melbournephotography-photographs, military history-army -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - BUTTONS, ARMY
Items in collection re Sgt James C WATT No 533, 24th BN, refer Cat No 3554.2 for his service history..1) & .2) Round, metal, button with imprint of Australia & crown on front. Attached ring on back. .1) Printed on back: “K C LUKE PTY LTD MELBOURNE” .2) Printed on back: “EMPIRE - TOOL SYD” .1) & .2) Embossed print around edge: “AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES” uniform, buttons, army, amf -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, COLOURS WW1, 21.5.1916
Item relates to Herbert Edgar HEWSTON No 40 3rd Pioneer Battalion AIF. Refer Cat No 2759.2 for his service history. Part of the HEWSTON collection WW1 & WW2.Photo, black & white, showing 3rd Pioneer Battalion on parade receiving their colours. Photo is on greyish cardboard background.“Presentation of Colours to 3rd Pioneer Battn” “Melbourne Cricket Ground 21 May 1916”photography-photographs, military history - army, colours -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - MUSEUM BOOK, Australian War Museum, Australian War Museum, The Relics and Records of Australia's effort in the Defence of the Empire. 1914 - 1918, c.1922
... goldfields Australian War Museum was located in Melbourne ...Australian War Museum was located in Melbourne & was a forerunner to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. This is the guidebook for the collection housed in the museum located in the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne.Soft cover with sepia illustration on the front & a map on the rear. Title on front in cream font. 92 pages, cut edges & black & white illustrations.books - military, military history - army, war museum -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Education Gazette, 1940s, 1940s
... gardens scrap rubber bogong high school histories melbourne ...Victorian Education Gazettes were sent to each Victorian school for the use of teachers. 10 black bound books with red spine. They are bound education gazettes from the 1940seducation gazette, teaching, drawing for secondary school, first aid, king's birthday, pre-nursing, gallipoli legion of anzacs, scholarships, creswick school of forestry, swimming, swimming and life-saving return, accomodation for teachers, ballarat teachers' college, chemistry experiments, war relief appeal, needlework, harold herbert obituary, drawing, school plantations, forest week, gould league, heavy colds - exclusion, pioneer's day, school gardens, scrap rubber, bogong, high school histories, melbourne teachers' college art collections, deaf children, physical education, education -
Bendigo Military Museum
Album - PHOTOGRAPHS WW1, 1) Ruskin Perth et al, 1) 22.12.14; .3) 1918.4.1916; .7) 14.4.17
.2) WA 22.12.14 Dear Mother, wishing you all the Compliments of the Season, your loving son Roy. (John Roy NEILSON, Bendigo). .3) What do you think of this little lot, Roy 1918. .4) Bruce Neilson (Melbourne) yours truly Bruce. .5) Xmas 1916 Palamountain. .7) E Holtham 14.4.17.1) Photo album fold out cardboard, maroon colour, containing 6 photos. .2) Photo post card, black & white, portrait of a soldier, no hat. .3) Photo post card, black & white, soldier, Corporal, sitting on an ornamental wall. .4) Photo post card, sepia, soldier, Sergeant, sitting on an ornamental wall. .5) Photo post card, black & white, soldier in uniform standing with coat over arm. .6) Photo post card, black & white, young soldier standing in militia uniform. .7) Photo post card, black & white, young soldier standing in militia uniform.photography-photographs, documents - postcards, military history, albums -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, FRAMED
JAMES WORLAND MILLS 59th Batt AIF No 3441 59th Batt AIF. Refer 169P for the same smaller photo for more details.Head & shoulders black & white portrait of soldier JAMES WORLAND MILLS 59th Batt AIF in great coat & peak hat. Wooden frame, tan colour with moulded edge, glass front with gold edge around portrait & cardboard backing.Stamped RH bottom corner: The Crown Studio, 240 Bourke St, Melbournephotographs- photography, military history - army, frames -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - UNIFORM ARMY, C.1940’s
Uniform items issued to Quentin Clifford BINKS V245016 & VX114178 2nd AIF. Refer Cat No 1835 for his service history. The shirt was added to make up a display uniform..1) Jacket, Service Dress, khaki, winter with 2 x Australia shoulder badges, 2 x Rising Sun lapel badges, 4 x Lieut badges (two on each shoulder), 2 x Service Ribbons WW2, 4 x Colour patches two on each shoulder, 2 oval, purple with grey surround, 2 rectangular same colours, metal buttons, waist belt, 4 pockets. .2) Trousers, Service Dress, khaki, winter, plastic buttons, 3 pockets. .3) Shirt, polyester, light khaki, long sleeves, 2 pockets. .4) Tie, khaki with tie clip to fit shirt collar..1) “Wardop, my Tailors of Melbourne, Collingwood and Geelong, for all men’s wear” .2) Same as .1) but with in ink “Lieut BinksJuly 1942” .3) “A.G.C.F. 1981 D & D uniforms army, service dress winter -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, FRAMED, Photograph of WAAAF marching through Melbourne October 1941
Framed photograph of "WAAAF Marching through Melbourne October 1941" Photograph - copy of black and white photograph depicting the" WAAAF (in uniform) marching through Melbourne October 1941". Frame - Timber, mid brown colour stain, glass front. Mount - black cardboard.Printed label in mount below photograph "WAAAF (in uniform) marching through Melbourne October 1941"frame accessories, military history - airforce, women, photography, ww2 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK WW1, Wilkinson Publishing Pty Ltd, 100 Years Duckboard Fighting Spirit, c.2015
... of the Duckboard RSL. History of the Duckboard RSL, Melbourne. books ...Book produced from Research Project by Alan Jackson (2419) in 2007-2008. The book published in 2015 for Centenary of the Duckboard RSL. History of the Duckboard RSL, Melbourne.Khaki coloured, hard cover with grey dust jacket, full width photographs across front & back. RHS has 4 uniformed soldiers walking along a duckboard walkway across a desolate battleground. Cover photograph is sepia. Dust jacket photograph is coloured. Acknowledgement card (16.5 x 14.7). 218 pp. Author, Alan Jackson.Inside: “To Pearl, Alan Jackson (signed) 10.8.2015” books-military-history, duckboard -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - RSL BOOK, History of Old Duckboard RSL, After 2007
91 Flinders Lane, Melbourne New Duckboard RSL Club 27 Winter Place Self published Research Project Author: Alan Jackson. Title printed on cover page. Clear plastic front cover, black card cover, black plastic coil binding, single sided print, no page numbering.books-military-history, societies-service clubs, rsl -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, FRAMED, Photo c.1915 - 18
HENRY HOLMBERG No's 334, 26673, 8th L.H Regt AIF. Refer 54P for full service records re Henry and brother Carl. Also 626.Framed photo showing mounted bandsmen with trees in the background. HENRY HOLMBERG is 2nd from left. The tan wooden frame has moulding on the outer edge. Black & white photo is mounted on grey background with gold edging around glass.On back in black texta: H Leslie In gold lettering RH bottom corner of grey background: Frazer & Vallance Melbournemilitary history - army, army bands, photography-photographs, frame accessories -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Suzanne Brugger, Australians and Egypt 1914 - 1919, 1980
Hardcover book with brown cover and yellow dust jacket with simple line drawing of an Egyptian and Australian. Inside on front page is part of a leaf held down with sticky tape.Written on first page "Dear Rex Happy Birthday 1985 Love from Harry" "Mrs May Hall"books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Brenda Ryan, Kamarooka and Gallipoli
A tribute to Martin D Donoghue's Bravery Author Brenda Ryan Light brown colour soft cover . photo of " B" Squadron 8th LHR riding along Camp Road Broadmeadows for a parade through Melbourne 02 20.1.1915 Photo across both back and front coverFirst page signature of " Brian P O'Donoghue" written in inkbooks, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, To the Last Ridge. First W.W. Memoirs. Witt Downing, 1998
first published by HH champion Australian Authors /azenes Melbourne in 1920soft cover with sepia photo of clouds , and red coloured poppies rear cover has sepia portrait of the author in uniforms 207 pages. on first page is pern " + Noel Daly Bendigo bvix MAu 1998 Sacred Heart cathedralbooks, military history, memoirs -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Melbourne University Press, To Kokoda and Beyond: The Story of the 39th Battalion 1941-1943, 1988
Brown and red softcover. Front cover has image of a soldier climbing a steep flights of steps.Written on first page "Donated by Len Bu(?) family", with signature. books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER, ARGUS, Melbourne Argus, C. June 1942
The Argus, Melbourne Tuesday June 2 1942. 6 pages. Main headlines: - 3 midget subs sunk in Sydney Harbour - Rommel trying to fight his way out - No more beer for Germany - Planning vase air offensivedocuments - newspapers, military history, the argus -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, The Waverley Book Company Limited, History of the Great War Vol III, c.WWI
... Street Melbourne booka military history Sticker / book plate ...Sticker: The Standard Publishing Co Pty Ltd, 100 Flinders Street MelbourneBook, red buckram, hard cover, gold printed diagram of ship (front) & sword on spine, 552 pagesSticker / book plate This Edition is Specially Prepared for Subscribers The Waverley Book Co Ltd London, 7/9 Old Baileybooka, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Work on paper - LETTER & ENVELOPE, 1) & .2) 30.5.16
LEO HARRIS No 3132, KIA 9.8.16. Refer 2478 for service history also 2476, 2477P, 2479.3..1) Small, yellowed envelope addressed to L HARRIS. .2) - .4) 3 page yellowed letter on ruled lines dated 30.5.16. Addressed to L HARRIS & written in blue ink & was in .1). Letter is from CARRIE LUCK, ALMA 15 Wigton Street, Ascot Vale, Melbourne.letters, envelopes -
Bendigo Military Museum
Postcard - POSTCARDS WW1, C.WW1
Items in the collection relating to Thomas Henry Whyte No 1936 AIF. Refer Cat No 2212.6 for his service history..1) Postcard from Adelaide Whyte to husband Thomas Henry Whyte. Union Jack, Women postcard. Roses, Poem. .2) Postcard from Thomas Henry Whyte to wife Adelaide Whyte. Koala with baby carried on back. .3) Postcard from Thomas Henry Whyte to wife Adelaide Whyte. Boomerang and fold out pictures of Melbourne.postcards, 38th bn -
Bendigo Military Museum
Award - MEDAL BOX, CARDS, Post 1945
Kingsley William Allen NO VX109839 2nd AIF. Refer 2192.4, 2195 for service history also 2193, 2196P..1) Small white medal box, bottom half, used to post medals out. .2) Small card, compliments from "The Minister of State for the Army" .3) Small paper note, yellow re "Queries to Army Medals section Vic Barracks Melbourne" .4) Paper list of Medals, campaign Stars, yellowed paper printed in black. Medals awarded are ticked in blue ink and details of person at bottom receiving. .4) "Total awards, four, Army No VX109839, Name K.W Allen"containers, military -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - BADGES, WWI & Post War
Fanny Isabella Nicol, Staff nurse A.A.M.S WWI. Badge collection during and post WWI in aid of returned servicemen and War effort. Refer 1795P for service history, 2317.6, 2591. 5 fundraising badges ( 3 metal, 2 paper) not individually marked. .1) Graphic of war memorial Melbourne (black & white) .2) Oval badge, floral pattern red/white, blue ribbon re Repatriation. .3) Black & white circular badge, metal (General kitchener) .4) Round, blue, metal, map outline of Australia , red print, help win the war. .5) Round metal badge, Australian Flag & soldierfundraising, numismatics- badges -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, We Will Remember Them. The Story of the Shrine of Remembrance, 1980
Soft cover book. Full page photograph on front cover of the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance during a service. Photograph on back cover of part of the Shrine and a garden bed of poppies. Author W. B. RUSSELL Pages 86books, military history, memorials -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Dianne Campbell, Ballarat Lawyers 1853-1895 Research Folders, c2000-2021
Folders of research notes on Ballarat Lawyers, including newspaper clippings, website information, etc. .1) Ballarat Lawyers - A (Australian Law Firm histories, Jamaican in Australia, History of the Court System, University of Melbourne Law Students c1870s, Melanie Senior, Cinque Oakley Senior Lawyers, 19th Century Castlemaine Police Courts, New Victorian County Court, Scots and the Law in Scotland, Solicitor online encyclopedia, Alfred Akehurst, Artur Akehurst, J.T. Ansdell, Butler Cole Aspinall, Alfred James Bailey, Henry Stephen Bailey, Matthew Baird, Hugh Sutherland Barrett, William Field Barrett, Redmond Barry, George Elliott Barton, George Frederick Bartrop, John Bell, Thomas Bellas, George Booker) .2) Ballarat Lawyers B (Hugh Sunderland Barrett, Peter Beckford, William Beckford, John T.F. Bowker, William Box, George Boyd, William Boykett, B. Browne, Richard Archer Burton, Alfred Butler) .3) Ballarat Lawyers C-E (Thomas B.S. Carwithen, J.B. Cathcart, John Alfred Chalk, David Clarke, John Collins, Matthew Combe, Thomas Spemcer Cope, Richard. Crouch, Charles Curwan-Walker, Frank H. Cole, John Rowland Davies, Charles J. Dawson, Christopher John Dease, J.E. Dixon, Robert Willian Dobson, Roy Dobson, Edward Doward, Charles R. Doward, Edgar R. Doward,) .4) Ballarat Lawyers F-G (Charles B. Finlayson, Peter T. Finn, John Findlay, John Fitzgerald, John Olsen Foss, Alexander Fraser, J.A. Doane, Andrew Garran, George Garrard, David Gaunson, William Gaunt, MAry Gaunt, F.T. Gell) .5) Ballarat Lawyers H-J: (Frederick Ham, Jeremy Harper, John H. Harris, solicitors, Amelia Harris, J. Henry Harris, Peter Blake, Henry Plomer, Arthur Plomer, Ballarat Chamber of Commerce, Freemasons, White Flat Drainage and Mining Company, Henry R. Nicholls, Francis Ham, Richard T. Harvey, Edward Heady, Peter Heinz, T.t. Hollway. Thomas tuke hollway, William Higgins, James V.M. Hitchins, frederick Hitchins, James Hitchins, Edward Hockley, Robert W. Holmes, Catherine Kain, JOhn Ireland, Richard D. Ireland, Peter Jacobs) .6) T.C. Williams, John Kidahl, Arthur W. King, Pendrell family, M.A. Lazarus, Edward Lewis, W.H. McCormick, Soho Foundry, Henry S, Ochiltree, James V. McCormick, McDonnell, Townsend MacDermott, Morgan McDOnnell, Percy McDonnell, Cyprian McDonnell, John McFarland, Samuel W, McGowan, Bill McGregor, David Madden, Charles Holthouse, J. Madden, Samuel Mann, Samuel F. Mann, Tobias Furneaux, Samuel Mann, Agar Wynne, thomas Mann, Henry MacDermott, Archibald Midnie, Arthur Nevett, Arthur H. Nevett, Alfred Mitchell, William Mitchell, H.W. Morrow, William Mitchell, Norman P. Must, George F. Oakley.) .7) Ballarat Lawyer Q-R (Henry S. Ochiltree, W.B. Ochiltree, Edward G. Ochiltree, J.J.P. O'Dee, Bernard O'Dowd, John Ogier, Cornish Lawyers in Central Victoria Q-R, John Bateman Paynter, J.B. Pearson, Mondle Emmanuel Phillips, Robert King Piers, Robert King Piers, Pinkerton, Frank Pinkerton, Martha Pinkerton, Charles Purcell, R.H. Ramsay, Henry Randall, James Randall, Thomas Randall, John Warrington Rogers, John M. S. Rodd, George Rutler) .8) Lawyers in Central Victoria S-W (Charles Salter, H. Holmes, George Staveley, Charles Salter, George T. Boyd, Edward Sandford, Henry G. Shaw, Thomas W. Snape, Thomas S. Standish, Charles Snape, Frederick C. Standish, Edith Snape, James Snape, Thomas Snape, Philip Snape, George Staveley, John G. Stoker, William Stone, Henry Sturt, Matthew W. Taylor, Bread and Cheese Club, R.D. Thompson, Roger D. Thompson, R.H. Ramsay, R.G. Turner, F.H. Tuthill, W.M.K. Vale, William Vale, May Vale, William L. Vardy, Gordon Vardy, William S. Vardy, Charles Von Ende) .9) Lawyers in Central Victoria W-Z (Henry Walker, Andrew Wallace, John Wellesley, Brereton Watson, C.G.M. Watson, James Watson, George Armytage, Thomas Watson, Patricius Welsh, John Westmore, Theodore Whipham, Arthur Whipham, Thomas H. Whipham, Frances Whipham, Thomas Bellas, James L. Willoughby, John Noble Williams, James Wisewould, Horace Wright, H.M. Wright, William Wright, Henry J. Wrixon, Agar Wynne, Samuel Young) . ballarat lawyers, ballarat, dianne campbell goldfields lawyers collection -
Federation University Historical Collection
Journal, Donald Douglas Mather, Exercise Books used for Newspaper article notes, 1954
Blue covered embassy exercise book of lined paper with handwritten notes inside and some loose notesHandwritten on front cover. From Donald Douglas Mather Rock St, Ivanhoe, Victoria. Ballaarat of Historical Society, Australian History from 1512 to 1890 to Keith Rash August 1968. buninyong gold fields, melbourne morning herald, melbourne argus, dunlop and regan, ballarat gold diggings, melbourne news, donald douglas mather, keith rash, james jones, gold discovery -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book - Book - Scrapbook, Ballarat School of MInes: Scrapbook of Newspaper Cuttings, Book 33, October 1987 to January 1988
Collection of newspaper articles related to Ballarat School Of Mines.They cover activities and advertisements for staff. The papers concerned are The Courier, Ballarat, The Australian, The Age over the period of 22 July to 3 October 1987.Book with green cover, front, spiral bound. teaching positions advertised, pre-employment courses, courses available, indonesian school chiefs visit, dana street safety issue, appeal to help radio station relocate, inskill program enables cost savings, tiffany parker second in hair colouring competition, trish bishop and averil macklin, booklet 'wednesday's words, better deal for small business, how to speak without words, gift of toys to smb creche, jenny leviston, photograph display at smb, historical photo query, counselling skills graduation, aboriginal women students, play tunnel designed by women's trade and technical program, 100-year-old book returns to ballarat, wither's history of ballarat volume one, lower aim beats stress, dr bob montgomery, tertiary orientation program art show, smb will 'sell' courses to new apprentices, competition between tafe colleges, sovereign hill cottages to be opened, metal trades course begins, cfa unit prepared by smb students, nance jeffries gold medalist, drake international world veteran games melbourne, geoffrey mainwaring painter of portrait, barker portrait to college council, gail snowden, memories of early schoolong, peter mansfield, numbers drop for training courses -
Bendigo Military Museum
Certificate - CERTIFICATE, FRAMED, HOOK, RAY, HMAS Melbourne Final Cruise, Frame 1.3.1938
The certificate is, A proclamation given at our Court on the Equator, this 28th day of February 1928”Framed Certificate, timber with decorative edge, brown colour, glass front, certificate, red and black print with ornate pillars each side topped with globes of the world, framing label on backAt bottom of certificate in scroll, “AB Alfred J Carter”documents - certificates, military history - navy, frames -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - UNIFORM, ARMY
Uniform items issued to Quentin Clifford BINKS, V245016 & VX114178 2nd AIF. Refer Cat No 1835 for his service history. .1) Jacket, Service Dress, khaki, summer with 2 x Australia shoulder badges, 2 x Rising Sun lapel badges, 4 x Lieut rank badges ( 2 on each shoulder), 2 x WW2 Service Ribbons, 2 x blue Service Chevrons on right sleeve, metal buttons, 4 pockets. .2) Trousers, Service Dress, khaki, summer, 3 pockets. .3) Shirt, polyester, khaki, long sleeves. .4) Tie, cotton, khaki. .5) Belt, Sam Brown, brown leather, waist and shoulder belts. .6) Braces, clear plastic..1) “Wardrop, My Tailor of Melbourne, Collingwood and Geelong for all men’s wear” .2) “Wardrop of Melbourne, Collingwood and Geelong, approved Military Tailors” Under in ink “Lieut Binks Dec 1942” .3) “ADF 1989” uniform - army - male, costume - male, costume accessories - male -
Wycheproof & District Historical Society Inc.
Framed photo, Wycheproof Mounted Policeman Ernest Graham Ashton 1870 -1946, 2007 (exact)
E.Ashton joined the Victorian Police force in 1896;appointed a horse mounted constable in his first year of service and had a distinguished career that included arresting criminal "Squizzy Taylor in 1919 in Bourke Street, Melbourne. Ernest finished as Superintendent of Sale Police Station. His career is detailed in the Wycheproof family history section of our archive. He married Lucy May Webber at Wycheproof in 1898.Part of Victorian Police History and local Wycheproof History, Constable Ashton had a brilliant police career.In the framed black and white photo Constable Ernest Graham Ashton, in full mounted police uniform, which includes white helmet, sits astride his white steed, long sword hanging below the horses's right flank. Caption on photo: Mounted Constable Ernest Graham Ashton. The Court House Wycheproof.Mounted Constable ERNEST GRAHAM ASHTON THE COURT HOUSE WYCHEPROOF VICTORIA 1870 -1946victoria, ernest, mounted, wycheproof, police, graham, ashton -
Wycheproof & District Historical Society Inc.
Dempsey Book, Dempsey Land Selection, 2003l
Mr Dempsey and family were the first selectors to arrive at Mt Wycheproof 1872 or early 1873. One Dempsey Land Application is dated 15-3-1873.Factual documents obtained from a Melbourne archive show settler,John Dempsey,securing land at Wycheproof. Several official Lands Department correspondence provides evidence of Dempsey's early land acquisition at the beginning of the town's farming history and settlement from 1872 - 1882. This is an A3 sized Display book with grey spine. Comprises official Lands Department Papers detailing Mr John Dempsey's Land Applications and acquisition at Wycheproof. Dated documentation is from 1872 through to 1882.Locally researched references give an overview about the Dempsey family.dempsey, land -act, bunguluke