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Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Wandin & District Historical Museum Society Inc, Great courage and initiative' : the heroic life of George Ingram VC, MM, 2025
The biography of Capt George Ingram VC, MM, the last Australian VC recipient of the First World War. From country childhood in Bagshot and Seville to a gunner with the Australian Garrison Artillery and the Tropical Force's Matupi Battery. He then served with the 24th Battalion AIF on the Western Front where he was awarded the Military Medal and the Victoria Cross. After the war he became a soldier settler, an original Shrine Guard and during World War Two he served with the Royal Australian Engineers. Throughout his life he carried the physical and mental scars of his service in the war.Index, bibliography, ill, maps, p.187.non-fictionThe biography of Capt George Ingram VC, MM, the last Australian VC recipient of the First World War. From country childhood in Bagshot and Seville to a gunner with the Australian Garrison Artillery and the Tropical Force's Matupi Battery. He then served with the 24th Battalion AIF on the Western Front where he was awarded the Military Medal and the Victoria Cross. After the war he became a soldier settler, an original Shrine Guard and during World War Two he served with the Royal Australian Engineers. Throughout his life he carried the physical and mental scars of his service in the war.soldiers - victoria - biography, george ingram - biography -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Lucy Artymiuk, Destination Australia: Polish soldier immigrants (1947-48), 2019
A Short History of Polish soldiers migration to Australia after WWII. Part I The Surplus Heroes 5 The Foundation of the Polish Republic operating in exile 7 Formation of military 10 Change in relations with the Allies 18 The Polish military in the closing stages of the war 21 The consequences of the Yalta Conference 22 1945 Elections in Britain 24 The Polish Resettlement Corps [in UK] 28 The notion of "Betrayal" 31 The Future 32 Part II Destination Australia 35 Background 37 Polish Armed Forces in the West 39 The "Polish Issue" 43 Polish Resettlement Corps (PRC) 49 Solution? 52 Portrayal of the Poles 54 Australian government decision-making 57 SS Asturias - September 1947 and December 1947 Tasmania: Hydro-Electric Commission 64 SS Strathnaver - August 1948 64 Hobart 69 Victoria 71 Queensland 71 Manus Island 71 South Australia 72 New South Wales 72 Asturias - August 1948 - Sydney 76 Asturias - November 1948 - Western Australia 78 Life at the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission 79 Citizenship 85 Deportation 91 Australian veterans groups 93 Polish veterans groups in Australia 96 Establishing a life 100 Families 103 Polish communities 105 Annexes 109. Includes photographs, facsimiles and maps.ill (b/w), p.158., lists.non-fictionA Short History of Polish soldiers migration to Australia after WWII. Part I The Surplus Heroes 5 The Foundation of the Polish Republic operating in exile 7 Formation of military 10 Change in relations with the Allies 18 The Polish military in the closing stages of the war 21 The consequences of the Yalta Conference 22 1945 Elections in Britain 24 The Polish Resettlement Corps [in UK] 28 The notion of "Betrayal" 31 The Future 32 Part II Destination Australia 35 Background 37 Polish Armed Forces in the West 39 The "Polish Issue" 43 Polish Resettlement Corps (PRC) 49 Solution? 52 Portrayal of the Poles 54 Australian government decision-making 57 SS Asturias - September 1947 and December 1947 Tasmania: Hydro-Electric Commission 64 SS Strathnaver - August 1948 64 Hobart 69 Victoria 71 Queensland 71 Manus Island 71 South Australia 72 New South Wales 72 Asturias - August 1948 - Sydney 76 Asturias - November 1948 - Western Australia 78 Life at the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission 79 Citizenship 85 Deportation 91 Australian veterans groups 93 Polish veterans groups in Australia 96 Establishing a life 100 Families 103 Polish communities 105 Annexes 109. Includes photographs, facsimiles and maps.immigration - australia - polish community, australia - displaced persons -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Marrin Susans, The RAAF Mirage story, 1990
A compilation of memories and reminiscences by those involved with the production and operations of the Mirage fighterill (b/w), p.168.non-fictionA compilation of memories and reminiscences by those involved with the production and operations of the Mirage fighter raaf - mirage fighter, fighter planes - australia -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Arizona Memorial Museum Association, Remembering Pearl Harbor : the story of the USS Arizona Memorial, 1984
A pictorial history of the USS Arizona memorialIll, p.103.non-fictionA pictorial history of the USS Arizona memorialworld war 1939-1945 - memorials, uss arizona -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Film - Film, DVD, Infantry, RAAF, Navy: looping Film, DVD
Film, DVD's for vieo displaysnational vietnam veterans museum -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Film - Film, DVD, Unveiling and Dedication of Vietnam War Caribou 231 Aircraft at NVVM, 5 August 2017, 2017
Duration: 10 minutescaribou, national vietnam veterans museum -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Royal Australian Armoured Corps Tank Museum, An illustrated Record of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps
The RAAC Tank Museum was formed in 1971 using as a basis a number of vintage Armoured vehicles that adorned the Puckapunyal Area.The RAAC Tank Museum was formed in 1971 using as a basis a number of vintage Armoured vehicles that adorned the Puckapunyal Area.royal australian armoured corps tank museum - catalogs, armoured vehicles, military - victoria - puckapunyal - catalogs, military museums - victoria - puckapunyal - catalogs -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Booklet, Nambus
Small green covered booklet, 1st edition.nambus, newsletter -
Clunes Museum
Book, MICHAEL TAFFE et al, EXPLORING BALLARAT'S GARDEN HERITAGE, 1999
PICTUERS AND TEXT ABOUT THE FOLLOWING: GLENHOLME, HOMELEIGH ,HYMETTUS, LOTEO, MARYS MOUNT, OAKLANDS,ST. MICHAEL'S, ST. PATRICK COLLEGE, BALLARAT BOTANICAL GARDENS AND MOREDARK GREEN COVER WITH A PICTURE OF THE GARDENS IN A GOLDEN FRAME. ON THE BACK A PHOTOGRAPH OF MICHAEL TAFFE - THE AUTHOR - AND HIS STORY 63 PAGES non-fictionPICTUERS AND TEXT ABOUT THE FOLLOWING: GLENHOLME, HOMELEIGH ,HYMETTUS, LOTEO, MARYS MOUNT, OAKLANDS,ST. MICHAEL'S, ST. PATRICK COLLEGE, BALLARAT BOTANICAL GARDENS AND MOREmichael taffe, heritage gardens -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
A folder, Memorial to HMAS Sydney Geraldton Western Australia
history of the memorial dedicated to HMAS Sydney. at Geraldton WAA folder containing descriptions and history of the memorial at Geraldton W.A. Also A4 sized photos of various aspects of the memorial.hmas sydney, world war 2, memorial -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Booklet, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Buildings for Business and Government, 1957
Catalogue of an exhibition on show at MOMA (25 Feb - 28 April 1957) during Robin Boyd's time of America. Includes articles on 6 American buildings of the 1950s, architects including Edward D Stone, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki.buildings, architecture, edward d stone, skidmore owings and merrill, mies van der rohe, philip johnson, eero saarinen, minoru yamasaki, museum of modern art, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Wilbur H. Hunter, Jr. and Charles H. Elam, Century of Baltimore Architecture, 1957
Softcoverarchitecture, american architecture, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Martha Boice, The Fine Arts Cookbook, 1970
Softcover, spiral boundInscription inside front cover to Patricia from Mary R, dated March 1977. Two promotional flyers from Brain Dunlop art exhibitionscookery, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Martha Boice, The Art of Asian Cooking, 1990
Spiral boundInscription inside front cover to Patricia from Mary, dated Christmas 1990cookery, asian cooking, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Martha Boice, The Fine Arts Cookbook II, 1981
Softcover, Spiral BoundInscription inside front cover to Patricia from Mary, dated October 1981. "A Letter from Sages Cottage" inserted inside. Newspaper cutout of a TV review "At Last - A concrete-hating architect" by Sylvia Clayton about Norman Foster Inserted insidecookery, cooking, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Thomas Krens and Lisa Dennison, Masterpieces from the Guggenheim, 1991
Softcover. This is a catalogue for exhibition at Art Gallery of NSW in Sept 1991-Jan 1992walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Jan Meek, The Moderns, 1984
SoftcoverInserted in front cover: introduction to the exhibition, written by Peter Lawson-Johnston, President of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundationart, australia, walsh st library -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Museum of Victoria, Hidden histories, 2003
Collection of Print outs from an online project visited on 26/11/2003.B&w photographsgunai kurrnai, gunai kurnai, museum victoria, oral histories, bruce baxter, norman terrick, nicholas moffatt, max solomon, shirley firebrace, bill harrison, jason wilson, shane atkinson, eddie kneebone, rob thorpe, koori children's art -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Museum of Victoria, Indigenous cultures ethnohistoric material : Anthropology Department : Manuscript Collection - inventory boxes 1-24, 25-45, 1993
finding aid, howitt, spencer, kenyon, robinson, young, balfour, johns, wright, seeger, wright, cowle, gillen, officer, benporath, croll, mitchell, endacott, cahill -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Museum of Victoria Education Service, Aboriginal perspectives, 1996
The kit is designed for the general public, teachers and students, to give an understanding of Australian Indigenous people and culture and to break down stereotypes that are common in the school system and the wider community. The information presented is about the cultural, spiritual, economic and religious aspects of pre-contact societies. The impact of invasion on traditional societies and the post-colonial history of Australian Indigenous people is explored.Maps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographs, colour photographsculture, history, john batman, batman treaty, coranderrk mission, koorie culture, lake condah mission, kinship systems, aboriginal art, dreaming stories, kulin, gunai/kurnai, mara, wotjobaluk, wudjubaluk, koori -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Paynesville Maritime Museum Inc, Keep it for the Future - How to set up small Community Archives, 2010
A facsimile reproduction of the 'Tourist's and Sportsman's Guide to the Gippsland Lakes and Surrounding Country' printed c. 1882 for the Lakes Navigation Company. It provided a description of the main ports of call of the boats 'Tanjil', 'Bairnsdale' andtourism, advertising -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Alberts, Trish et al, Making a Difference / First Australians : Plenty Stories, 2010
This book shares inspiring stories aabout how individuals and organisations have made a difference in Australian society by giving a voice to the histories and viewpoints of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Contents: Understanding each other; Koorie Heritage Trust; Bangarra Dance Theatre; The Aboriginal Baldja Network; Reconciliation Australia and the Stolen Generations Alliance; Working together for change; Glossary; Index.32 p. : ill., col. maps, ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.This book shares inspiring stories aabout how individuals and organisations have made a difference in Australian society by giving a voice to the histories and viewpoints of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Contents: Understanding each other; Koorie Heritage Trust; Bangarra Dance Theatre; The Aboriginal Baldja Network; Reconciliation Australia and the Stolen Generations Alliance; Working together for change; Glossary; Index.aboriginal australians. | torres strait islanders. | australian -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Booklet, Baker, George, The role of Australites in Aboriginal customs, 1957
Australites formerly called obsidianites have been found in considerable numbers over vast areas of the southern portion of Australia. Many of them were treasured by certain aboriginal tribes as medicine-stones, death-pointers, punishment stones, hunting stones, sacred stones; magic stones; amulets etc.P.26; map; illus.; figs. references; 24 cm.Australites formerly called obsidianites have been found in considerable numbers over vast areas of the southern portion of Australia. Many of them were treasured by certain aboriginal tribes as medicine-stones, death-pointers, punishment stones, hunting stones, sacred stones; magic stones; amulets etc. australites-victoria-aboriginal useage, aborigines-magic-australites -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Robins, Richard, A manual for small museums and keeping places, 1992
vi, 164 p. : ill.; 25 cm. atsi: 1. museums. 2. keeping places., lcsh: 1. museums -- handbooks, manuals, etc. i. robins, richard, 1952- ii. queensland museum. -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Maynard, Ricky et al, Reversing the negatives: a portrait of Aboriginal Victoria, 2000
The book is an important record of Victoria's Aboriginal people at the end of the twentieth century that I believe reverses negative perceptions about Aboriginal people.v-ix; 78 P.; plates; 31 cm.The book is an important record of Victoria's Aboriginal people at the end of the twentieth century that I believe reverses negative perceptions about Aboriginal people.aboriginal australians -- victoria -- pictorial works. | aboriginal australians -- victoria -- social life and customs -- pictorial works. | aboriginal australians -- victoria -- portraits. | families, aboriginal australian -- victoria -- portraits. -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Bulmer, John, Victorian Aborigines John Bulmer's Recollections 1855-1908, 1994
Blurb: " John Bulmer began his missionary work in 1855, commencing a life dedicated to the Christianising of Victorian Aboriginal people at Yelta on the Murray, in the Wimmera and Monaro and at Lake Tyers in Gippsland. ...he recorded many of his recollections in thirteen papers, in correspondence with R. Brough Smyth and A. W. Howitt and in ... Royal Geographical Society of Australia."`xv, 98 p. : ill., map. figs.; tables; notes, word list; bib.;; 25 cm.Blurb: " John Bulmer began his missionary work in 1855, commencing a life dedicated to the Christianising of Victorian Aboriginal people at Yelta on the Murray, in the Wimmera and Monaro and at Lake Tyers in Gippsland. ...he recorded many of his recollections in thirteen papers, in correspondence with R. Brough Smyth and A. W. Howitt and in ... Royal Geographical Society of Australia."`bulmer, john, 1833-1913. | aboriginal australians -- missions -- victoria. | aboriginal australians -- victoria -- social life and customs. | aboriginal australians -- victoria -- social conditions. -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Pamphlet - Leaflet, People's Palace Museum, The Rutherglen St Eloi, 1980 (Approximate)
Leaflet gives more information of St Eloi and the finding of his statue.Two-page duplicated leaflet on St Eloi, patron saint of hammer-men. Part of a set of information on Rutherglen, Scotland.glasgow scotland, st eloi, eligius -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Book, Imperial War Museum, The Cabinet War Rooms, c 1980
Soft cover 32 pages colour and black and white prints covering the UK Cabinet War Rooms -
Tramways/East Melbourne RSL Sub Branch - RSL Victoria Listing id: 27511
Book, Malcolm Brown et al, 1918 YEAR OF VICTORY, 1998
35798642, historical, isbn: 0 330 37672 1 -
Tramways/East Melbourne RSL Sub Branch - RSL Victoria Listing id: 27511
Book, Mark Nicholls & Teresa Sullivan et al, AGAINST ALL ODDS (The British Army of 1939-40 The 50th Anniversary of Dunkirk), 1989
isbn: 0 901721 17 4