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

Book produced from a Research Project b Alan Jackson. Produced for the Centenary of the Duckboard RSL. History of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League of Australia (RSL) since it's founding in 1915.Hardcover book with dust cover. Hardcover - cardboard, khaki colour paper, black and white print. Illustrated with full width photograph front to back of four uniformed soldiers walking along a duckboard, across a desolate battleground. Dust cover - paper. Red, white, gold and black print. Illustrated as above with colour highlights. 218 pages, cut, plain, white paper. Illustrated, black and white and colour photographs. publication, book, military history, rsl, duckboard club

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

This image is part of a larger collection of images from the Public Transport Corporation displaying train stations and streetscapes in what is now the City of Kingston.While the focus of this image is the train line running overhead, the unsealed nature of the road speaks to the progression of suburban development during the 1920s.Black and white image of an unsealed underpass at Patterson Road, looking west. A car has stopped on the road in the distance and man is standing on the duckboard leaning into the car.Round white sticker on reverse with black printed text: 177 Handwritten in red ink: 60% Blue ink stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT / Public Transport Corporation / For re-ordering photographs / Please quote negative No ADV 300 / Enquiries C/- PTC Photographic Unit / Telephone switchboard 619 111patterson road, railway, trains, cars, unsealed roads

John Henry Lockett OAM (22 January 1891 – 25 May 2002) was the oldest man ever in Australia when he died aged 111 years, 123 days. As one of the last surviving veterans of World War I, he was acclaimed as a national hero during the last decade of his life. Lockett was born in the small Victorian town of Waanyarra, near Bendigo. He left school aged nine to work on a local farm. Later, he worked for his uncles in the Mallee. On 24 March 1916, he travelled to Mildura to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force. He served in France with the 38th Battalion, earning promotion to sergeant and was discharged on 20 September 1919. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lockett After the war, Jack returned to The Mallee and selected a 640 acres (260 ha) block of land in Linga, Victoria, deciding to make his living as a farmer. In 1923, he married Maybell Ingwerson and they had four children together. In 1963, the couple retired to Bendigo in 1953, leaving the farmland (which now covered more than 130,000 acres (53,000 ha), in the care of their children and grandchildren. "Diggers And mates. Victorian World War 1 Veterans In Profile." Compiled by Kylie McKenzie. Preamble by Con Sciacca, Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Foreward by Brian Flynn, Deputy Commissioner for Veterans' Affairs. Produced by the Commonwealth Department of Veteran's Affairs, Melbourne. Printed by the Australian Government Publishing Service in 1995. Contains a collection of the experiences and insights of many of Victoria's then surviving World war 1 veterans. Soft cover book with image of 'Supporting Troops of the 1st Australian Division photographed on a duckboard track near Ypres, Belgium, 1917. Titles printed in Green and dark blue. Vererans' Affairs logo in centre at top of front cover. Book includes service particulars of each service person, personal particulars of person, and image(s) of service person at time of publication (1995) and whilst in service. Includes an article on Jack Lockett - serviceman 43 as presented in book . jack lockett, world war 1