Postcard is one of I love Lassie series No 4286 Copy of message from Charles R Sands stationed at Durrington Camp Lark Hill Salsbury Plain on January 1917 Message reads Dear Little Dorothy I often wonder how you are since I left South Buchan and wish I was back again with you all. The snow is falling very fast tonight and all are suffering a lot with the frost and cold. I am still here but will be off to France sometime next month I do not feel at all happy this Xmas but I feel I will spend my next Xmas Day in South Buchan as I think the war will.......message continues on VTMH05475.1Black and white postcard of a British WWI Army Officer a little girl about five years old with her arm across his chest. EnglandMy Soldier Ladworld war 1914-1918, correspondence

Sent from France by Charles Sands June 17/17 Dear Little Dorothy I suppose you have been wondering if I am ever going to write to you wee little Dorothy. I was so pleaseed to get the pretty card that you sent me it made me long to be back with you again and I think I will some day. I am pleased you have a lady school teacher. I will say goodbye now little Dorothy with best wishes from CharlieBlack and white photograph of little girl holding flowers, image in oval frame dark background on postcard Franceworld war 1914-1918, communications

Message written in pencil from France Sept 30 1917 to Miss Dorothy Davidson View Forth South Buchan Victoria Colour tinted postcard of a little girl wearing blue striped dress holding flowers near a display of flowers Franceworld war 1914-1918, communications

The music for popular First World War composition "The Boys of the Dardenelles" by Marsh Little and arranged by J.Devlin Deane 1915 and copyrighted Sydney 1915. These cards attach to the lyre holder on the cornet for use in a marching band. This copy belonging to Michael Taffe of Ballarat and used during WWI & WWII.This is the first piece of specifically Australian patriotic music generated as a result of the disastrous campaign at Anzac. Produced in 1915 it was used in this instance by Ballarat Bands within a year of Anzac..Small music card for cornet lyre.nil,brass band, solo cornet, taffe, ballarat, music card, world war i, deane, devlin, dardenelles, quick march

non-fictionA personal diary that takes us from the shores of Australia to Gallipoli by way of training in the Middle East, a torpedoed troopship and on to a convalescent hospital in England. Pages of a small pocket diary that hold so much information, recorded each day, regardless of being torpedoed at sea or shelled in the front line and surviving to tell the tale. Also survivors were the four Hazard brothers from Brighton, Victoria, serving their country during World War 1, putting their lives on the line. All returned. Graphic newspaper reports by war correspondent Keith Murdoch, Officers and men support the little diary.world war 1, diary, brighton (vic.), hazard family, hazard brothers, corporal leonard gordon hazard

non-fictionA Girl at Government House These reminiscences of an English girl 'in service' present a remarkably lively portrait of Australia in the eighteen eighties and nineties. The story is delightfully different, an evocation of a little-documented side of life in nineteenth century Australia. Brisbane during the Jubilee, Sydney Centennial celebrations, and the Melbourne Exhibition provide the background to the colourful, continuous whirl of dinners, balls and garden parties of colonial society. Juxtaposed with the social roundabout are the lives and loves of the ordinary people who were 'a free and easy lot, and homely too'. The charmingly naive Agnes has come from England 'knowing no more than a babe unborn how it came into the world'; her rustic vision quaintly interpreted Australia as 'beautiful flowers without any scent' and fostered the belief that snakes will never die till sunset, however early they are killed'. An adventurous spirit and insatiable curiosity lead Agnes from one great house to another. Governors and grooms, ladies and laundry-maids — all are described with enchanting directness and compelling humour. Great care has been take to illustrate Agnes's story with authentic photographs depicting the people and places mentioned in her narrative. Captivating in its freshness, this delightful story is faithfully recorded with sparkling spontaneity. (inside cover)agnes stokes, servant