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Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Random House, First victory : 1914 : HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider Emden, 2013
... First victory : 1914 : HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German ...HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into Sydney Harbour in October 1913, a young nation was at peace. Under a year later Australia had gone to war in what was seen as a noble fight for king, country and Empire. Thousands of young men joined up for the adventure of having 'a crack at the Kaiser'. And indeed the German threat to Australia was real, and very near - in the Pacific islands to our north, and in the Indian Ocean. In the opening months of the war, a German raider, Emden, wreaked havoc on the maritime trade of the British Empire. Its battle against the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney, when it finally came, was short and bloody - an emphatic first victory at sea for the fledgling Royal Australian Navy. This is the stirring story of the perilous opening months of the Great War and the bloody sea battle that destroyed the Emden in a triumph for Australia that resounded around the world. In the century since, many writers have been there before Mike Carlton. Most were German, some of them survivors of the battle, others later historians, and they have generally told the story well. British accounts vary in quality, from good to nonsense, and there have been some patchwork American attempts as well. Curiously, there has been very little written from an Australian point of view. This book is - in part - an attempt to remedy that, with new facts and perspectives brought into the light of day.Index, bib, ill, maps, p.476.non-fictionHMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into Sydney Harbour in October 1913, a young nation was at peace. Under a year later Australia had gone to war in what was seen as a noble fight for king, country and Empire. Thousands of young men joined up for the adventure of having 'a crack at the Kaiser'. And indeed the German threat to Australia was real, and very near - in the Pacific islands to our north, and in the Indian Ocean. In the opening months of the war, a German raider, Emden, wreaked havoc on the maritime trade of the British Empire. Its battle against the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney, when it finally came, was short and bloody - an emphatic first victory at sea for the fledgling Royal Australian Navy. This is the stirring story of the perilous opening months of the Great War and the bloody sea battle that destroyed the Emden in a triumph for Australia that resounded around the world. In the century since, many writers have been there before Mike Carlton. Most were German, some of them survivors of the battle, others later historians, and they have generally told the story well. British accounts vary in quality, from good to nonsense, and there have been some patchwork American attempts as well. Curiously, there has been very little written from an Australian point of view. This book is - in part - an attempt to remedy that, with new facts and perspectives brought into the light of day.world war 1939 – 1945 – naval operations - australia, world war 1939 – 1945 –naval operations - germany -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Hodder and Stoughton, German boy : a refugee's story, 2002
... German boy : a refugee's story ...In the Third Reich young Wolfgang Samuel and his family are content but alone. The father, a Luftwaffe officer, is away fighting the Allies in the West. In 1945 as Berlin and nearby communities crumble, young Wolfgang, his mother Hedy, and his little sister Ingrid flee the advancing Russian army. They have no inkling of the chaos ahead. The boy and his mother must prevail over hunger and despair, or die." "In Strasburg, a small town north of Berlin where they find refuge, Wolfgang begins to comprehend the evils the Nazi regime has brought to Germany. As the Reich collapses, mother, son, and little sister flee again just ahead of the Russian charge.Ill, p.357.non-fictionIn the Third Reich young Wolfgang Samuel and his family are content but alone. The father, a Luftwaffe officer, is away fighting the Allies in the West. In 1945 as Berlin and nearby communities crumble, young Wolfgang, his mother Hedy, and his little sister Ingrid flee the advancing Russian army. They have no inkling of the chaos ahead. The boy and his mother must prevail over hunger and despair, or die." "In Strasburg, a small town north of Berlin where they find refuge, Wolfgang begins to comprehend the evils the Nazi regime has brought to Germany. As the Reich collapses, mother, son, and little sister flee again just ahead of the Russian charge.world war 1939-1945 - refugees, wolfgang samuel - biography -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, William Heinemann, The Wolf : how one German raider terrorised Australia and the southern oceans in the first world war, 2010
... The Wolf : how one German raider terrorised Australia and ...The true story of an epic voyage of destruction in World War One. July 1917: the First World War is about to enter its fourth horrendous year and ships are mysteriously disappearing off Australia and New Zealand, as a young Australian woman named Mary Cameron sails with her husband and daughter across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney. Less than a thousand miles from Sydney, a black-hulled freighter appears out of the vast blue emptiness, and Mary and her daughter rush to the deck to greet her. Suddenly, two hinged iron sections of the freighter's bulwarks drop down to reveal she is bristling with guns. She is in fact the German warship the Wolf, and the Cameron family are about to find themselves captive on one of the century's most extraordinary wartime sea voyages.Index, bib, ill, maps, p.384.non-fictionThe true story of an epic voyage of destruction in World War One. July 1917: the First World War is about to enter its fourth horrendous year and ships are mysteriously disappearing off Australia and New Zealand, as a young Australian woman named Mary Cameron sails with her husband and daughter across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney. Less than a thousand miles from Sydney, a black-hulled freighter appears out of the vast blue emptiness, and Mary and her daughter rush to the deck to greet her. Suddenly, two hinged iron sections of the freighter's bulwarks drop down to reveal she is bristling with guns. She is in fact the German warship the Wolf, and the Cameron family are about to find themselves captive on one of the century's most extraordinary wartime sea voyages.naval warfare - germany, commerce raiders - germany -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Aurum Press Ltd, The secret listeners : The men and women posted across the world to intercept the secret german codes for Bletchley Park, 2012
... world to intercept the secret german codes for Bletchley Park. ...Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machine's code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recorded by 'the Listening Service', the wartime department whose bases moved with every theatre of war (Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus) as well as having listening stations along the eastern coast of Britain to intercept radio traffic in the European theatre. This is the story of the - usually very young - men and women sent out to farflung outposts to listen in for Bletchley Park, an oral history of exotic locations and ordinary lives turned upside down by a sudden remote posting - the heady nightlife in Cairo, filing cabinets full of snakes in North Africa, and flights out to Delhi by luxurious flying boat.Index, ill, map, p.354.non-fictionBefore Bletchley Park could break the German war machine's code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recorded by 'the Listening Service', the wartime department whose bases moved with every theatre of war (Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus) as well as having listening stations along the eastern coast of Britain to intercept radio traffic in the European theatre. This is the story of the - usually very young - men and women sent out to farflung outposts to listen in for Bletchley Park, an oral history of exotic locations and ordinary lives turned upside down by a sudden remote posting - the heady nightlife in Cairo, filing cabinets full of snakes in North Africa, and flights out to Delhi by luxurious flying boat.world war 1939-1945 - great britain - intelligence, world war 1939-1945 - cryptography -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Salamander Books, World War Two German Aircraft, 1985
... World War Two German Aircraft ...Colour photographs and descriptions of World War Two German aircraftIll, p.61.non-fictionColour photographs and descriptions of World War Two German aircraftaircraft - germany - world war two, air power - germany - world war two -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Schiffer Publishing, The German battleship Gneisenau, 1990
... The German battleship Gneisenau ...Illustrated and textual description of the German battleship GneisenauBib, ill, p.48.non-fictionIllustrated and textual description of the German battleship Gneisenaunaval warfare - germany, battleships - germany -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Grubb Street et al, Under the guns of the German aces : Immelmann, Voss, Göring, Lothar von Richthofen : the complete record of their victories and victims, 1997
... Under the guns of the German aces : Immelmann, Voss ...Listing of the victims of the ace German fighter pilots in World war IIIndex, bib, ill, p.192.non-fictionListing of the victims of the ace German fighter pilots in World war IIfighter pilots - great britain - biography, fighter pilots - germany - biography -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Booklet (Item) - "Pocket Notes on Identification of German Units" January 1941 - RAF & F.T.Twomey
... "Pocket Notes on Identification of German Units" January ... -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Pamphlet (item) - Scale Silhouettes and Oddentifications, Scale Silhouettes and Oddentifications of well-known British, American and German First-line Aeroplanes
... British, American and German First-line Aeroplanes ... -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Booklet (item) - London Magazine Special German Defence Section
... London Magazine Special German Defence Section ... -
Thompson's Foundry Band Inc. (Castlemaine)
Sheet Music, German Music
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Thompson's Foundry Band Inc. (Castlemaine)
Sheet Music, German Music
... German Music ... -
Thompson's Foundry Band Inc. (Castlemaine)
Sheet Music, German Music
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Kilmore Historical Society
POCKET-DICTIONARY ENGLISH AND GERMAN, The New Pocket-Dictionary of the English and German Languages, 1800
... The New Pocket-Dictionary of the English and German ...Faded brown leather cover with damage to edges vi; 395 pages; 15cm Handwritten inscription on first page 'J Thorpe'kilmore mechanics institute library. -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Karl Neureuther, U-boat stories : narratives of German U-boat sailors, 1931
... U-boat stories : narratives of German U-boat sailors ...Personal recollections of German submarinersIll, p.207.non-fictionPersonal recollections of German submarinersworld war 1914-1918 - naval operations - submarines, world war 1914-1918 - personal recollections - german -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Methuen and Co, German diplomatic documents, 1871-1914 v.4. The descent to the abyss, 1931
... German diplomatic documents, 1871-1914 v.4. The descent to ...Volume four of a study of German diplomatic documentsIndex, p.379.non-fictionVolume four of a study of German diplomatic documentsgermany - politics and government - 1871-1914, germany - diplomacy -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Prisoner of the Kormoran : W.A. Jones' amazing experiences on the German raider Kormoran and as a prisoner of war in Germany, 1944
... on the German raider Kormoran and as a prisoner of war in ...Experience of an Australian sailor taken prisoner by the KormoranIll, p.318.non-fictionExperience of an Australian sailor taken prisoner by the Kormoranworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - germany -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, A New German and English dictionary / compiled from the best authorities in both languages ; revised and considerably enlarge, 1909
... A New German and English dictionary / compiled from the ...A German, English dictionaryp.797., p.545 .non-fictionA German, English dictionarygerman language - dictionaries, english language - dictionaries -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Equipment - Field Equipment, German WW1 Gas mask in tin, 1918
... German WW1 Gas mask in tin...german ...Late WW1 gas maskThis item was worn by German soldiers to protect them against chemical weapons during WW1Late first world war gas mask complete with field grey carry tin and replacement lenses in original paper Tin has a short, tan cotton strap for wearing over the wearers shoulder. replacement lenses are packed in celephane with "klarscheiben vor feuchtigkeit schutzen nicht wischen, nur am rande anfassen so einlegen" which translates to "Do not wipe clear discs from moisture protection, just touch at the edge so insert " 27.Mal1918 on base of tin "klarscheiben vor feuchtigkeit schutzen nicht wischen, nur am rande anfassen so einlegen" on replacemet lenses ww1, german, gas mask, wark vc club -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Book - DREAMS & MEMORIES : FIFTY YEARS IN LIFE OF GERMAN AUSTRIAN AUSTRALIAN CLUB (WODONGA) INC. 1960-2010, Doina Eitler, 2010
... DREAMS & MEMORIES : FIFTY YEARS IN LIFE OF GERMAN AUSTRIAN ...A history of The German Austrian Club which was founded on the 16th of July, 1960. Migrants from Germany and Austria arrived in Bonegilla during the 50s and 60s and many were lonely and homesick. The Club became a meeting place for these people. This book follows the evolution of the club as a recognised social venue and contributor to the Wodonga community.non-fictionA history of The German Austrian Club which was founded on the 16th of July, 1960. Migrants from Germany and Austria arrived in Bonegilla during the 50s and 60s and many were lonely and homesick. The Club became a meeting place for these people. This book follows the evolution of the club as a recognised social venue and contributor to the Wodonga community.german austrian australian club, wodonga clubs, german immigration -
Camberwell RSL Sub-Branch
Photo, Jack and Deloris Bell after receiving the Victorian Senior citizen award in 2017. Jack is 100 years young and a surviver of both Italian and German POW camps in WW2
... both Italian and German POW camps in WW2 ...Photos taken at Government House after being awarded the Senior Citizen award by the Governor of Victoria, The Honourable Linda Dessau AC.See photo -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, German built historical dwelling, 1964
... German built historical dwelling ...Typescript describing Schwerkolt Cottage and the Schwerkolt family. [anon.]Typescript describing Schwerkolt Cottage and the Schwerkolt family. [anon.]Typescript describing Schwerkolt Cottage and the Schwerkolt family. [anon.]schwerkolt cottage, schwerkolt family -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article - photocopy, German Couple Film Our Cottage, 1965
... German Couple Film Our Cottage ...Photo and article of a film about the life of the early settlers of Nunawading which was made by Hans Beumer at the instigation of Keith Satchwell for the Opening of Schwerkolt Cottage.A photocopy of photo and article of a film about the life of the early settlers of Nunawading which was made by Hans Beumer at the instigation of Keith Satchwell for the Opening of Schwerkolt Cottage.Photo and article of a film about the life of the early settlers of Nunawading which was made by Hans Beumer at the instigation of Keith Satchwell for the Opening of Schwerkolt Cottage.schwerkolt cottage, satchwell, keith, beumer, hans, howdon, arthur, films -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Book (Item) - Metallurgical Study of German and Italian Aircraft Engine and Airframe Parts (Steels in Emeny Aircraft)
... Metallurgical Study of German and Italian Aircraft Engine ... -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Book (Item) - British German and Italian Aircraft - How to spot them Drawings and Photographs with Descriptions
... British German and Italian Aircraft - How to spot them ... -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, German Internees at Camp 3, 1940 - 1946
... German Internees at Camp 3 ...Teachers and students from Camp 3 school. Left to right: Mrs Wieberle, Mrs Lippmann, Mrs Wurster, Lily Fast, Eva Ruff, Leni Haar, Isolde Pfander, ? Bochrer, Isolde Frank, Elizabeth Vollmer, Emma Baumert, Ilse Fast, Helga Loebert, Liesolotte Steller, Annemarie Trefz, Gerda Kuebler, Gerda Decker, Hilde Kuebler, Irma Decker, Margaret Pfander, Ruth Vollmer, Irene Krockenberger, Gudrun Frank, Mrs Kollat, Wolpurge Wagner, Anni Kuebler, Mrs Ilse Boerner, Dr Reitmeier.Black and white photograph of group of about 40 people. Mostly ladies in front of a hut. Teachers and students.internee children, camp 3, german internees, mrs wieberle, mrs lippmann, mrs wurster, lily fast, eva ruff, leni haar, isolde pfander, bochrer, isolde frank, elizabeth vollmer, emma baumert, ilse fast, helga loebert, liesolotte steller, annemarie trefz, gerda kuebler, gerda decker, hilde kuebler, irma decker, margaret pfander, ruth vollmer, irene krockenberger, gudrun frank, mrs kollat, wolpurge wagner, anni kuebler, mrs ilse boerner, dr reitmeier -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Edged weapon, Bayonet - German Mauser, C WW1
... Bayonet - German Mauser ...Standard WW1 issue without saw back and steel mounted leather sheath -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Weapon - Edged weapon Bayonet 303, German Bayonet with scabbard and frog
... German Bayonet with scabbard and frog ...Pattern 1907 sword bayonet for 303 SMLE Rifle.28 -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Souvenir (collection), Wooden Box with German emblem painted on top
... Wooden Box with German emblem painted on top ... -
Highett RSL Sub Branch Inc
Painting:, Print Framed: Caught in the Search Light, Sopwith shoots down a German {Gotha] Bomber over London 1917 The Drever Collection Bert Drever
... down a German {Gotha] Bomber over London 1917 The Drever ...