3 eye shields packed in stiff cardboard sleeveAB 0119 EYESHIELDS ANTI-GAS AG MK 3

The haversack is the brown version (as opposed to the tropical version) issued by the Australian army. Designed inspired from the British haversack with the Australian using a Lift The Dot system instead of a pull tab. This model uses the same ring strap connector as the British haversack.The object is representative of military light gas mask pouch circa mid 20th century.Of rectangular parallelepipped shape made of thick and sturdy fabric (canvas). The colour is faded to a very pale shade of green. Some patches of original colour remain under the pocket flaps showing a darker shade of green. Front view - Rectangular shape with overlapping closing flap with a fastener to maintain closed Left and right views - Both sides have a small pocket attached. Pockets are maintained closed with a press-stud There is a metal buckle on top of the small pockets to attach a lanyard (using items 2020.000018-2 & 2020.000018-3). Back view - Rectangular with metal hooks on top and bottom to enable attachment to a strap/webbing. Bottom view - ‘U’ shaped stitching apparent (for internal pocket) with a metal stud slightly off center of the base (enabling closing of the internal pocket). Top view - closing flap overlapping on 3 sides and attached to the fabric forming the back part of the pouch. Inside view - On the inside, there is a small pocket at the bottom closed with a press-stud. There is also a loop of fabric fastened with another metallic press-stud. There is also an insert against the back pannel (full heighth of the pannel).The fastener of the main cover flap has "LIFT THE DOT" inscribed on the outside. Contains the Department of Defense symbol on the inside of the cover flap.

The book contains details of training received by individuals during the war years. The training includes First Aid, Home Nursing, Cookery, Catering, Anti Gas,Transport, Life Saving, Drill, Sewing, Blood Transfusions.Book containing details of Red Cross training during the 1940s. The book contains a newspaper clipping re 'Red Cross Work at Ringwood'. +Additional Keywords: Miles, AT / McAllister / Palmer / Parker / Hewitt

WORLD WAR 2 LOCAL INFORMATION 1. Red Cross Junior War Funds Krazy Whist night 29.7. ? (1 page). 2. Chatham Ladies P.O.W. Group, Entertainment, 1.8.1943 (1 page). 3. ‘At the Seymour camp’, (photocopy of 2 photos), The Argus, 18.3.1936 (1 page. 4. Photocopy of photo of liberated POWs from Sumatra including Pte J.A. Wicks of S.H.; The Argus, 29.9.1945 (1 page). 5. Map of District Camberwell Area G Sector 49, original laminated and copy, undated (2 pages). 6. A.R.F. training poison war gases: the gas arsine, undated (1 page). 7. Anti-gas respirator drawing, undated (1page). 8. The war gases, undated (1 page). 9. Planning meat ration meals, c. 1943 (32 page book). 10. Air raid precautions advice to householders, State Emergency Council for Civil Defence Victoria, April, 1941 (37 page book and cover). 11. Air raid precautions: notebook holding very brief notes of ARP street warden G.R.H. Hall, 1942 (leatherette notebook). 12. Women – wartime, research by Kitty McEwan of Women’s Land Army, extract from History of Ormiston School, undated (1 page). 13. Miss Kitty McEwan, Superintendent of Australian Women’s Land Army 1941-6, extract from History of Ormiston School 1849-1964, (1 page). 14. Interview with Miss M. George, re Mr. Joe George Air Raid Warden of 26 Scheele Street, S.H.; and photocopy of photo of J. George) (2 pages). 15. Wartime in Surrey Hills 1942, by Norman Carter. (1 page). 16. Wartime – Mont Albert, 1939-45. Extract from ‘Ross of Mont Albert’, (1 page). 17. Morotai ‘Table tops’ No. 244, 3.2.1946. (Original and photocopy 2 pages). 18. Wartime restrictions Control of Photography Order undated (1 page). 19. Family fun day, 2.4.1995, Wattle Park Australia remembers 1945-1995 (1 page). 20. Over the fence, re WW2 veterans Russell Zenner and Jack Bell, Boroondara Local Review, undated (2 pages). 21. ‘Forty years on’, Edel Wignell, 1984 (1 page). 22. Howell Monteath Tipping, notes by Margaret Edwards (daughter), 20.9.2020 (1 page). 23. My Time – article on Alton Jackson. Progress Press April 2005 24. Box Hill RSL, Oral History Project. Summary of interview with Peter Chester, RANR, 1942-1946 by Janet Baker world war 2