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Bendigo Military Museum
Programme - MATARANKA RACES PROGRAMME 1944, June 1943
These were saved by V246169 Pte Donald Rexford Speedy. POB Bendigo. Refer Cat No 4396.2P..1) Single sheet of paper folded. Titled “2nd Annual Meeting 25 June 1944. Mataranka Racing Club” .2) Single sheet of paper folded. Titled “Mataranka Picnic Races, Inaugral Meeting - Sunday 27th June 1943” .3) same as .2)Written in pencil on last page "Pte Speedy" horse race, programme, mataranka -
Bendigo Military Museum
Newspaper - THE TROPPO TRIBUNE, 8th AAOD, C. 1943 - 44
These were produced with the unit, whilst at Mataranka N.T. The unit was 8th Aust Army Ord Depot. The newsletters were edited by Frank Hardy. These were saved by V246169 Donald Rexford Speedy. Refer Cat No 4396.2P There are seven issues here. The paper has browned with age. Six newsletters are foolscap size, the last one is quarter size. They have printed words and cartoons. .1 Volume 1 No. 6 - 25 Jan 1943 (four sheets) .2 Volume 7 No. 2 - 21 Feb 1944 (two sheets) .3 Volume 7 No. 1 - 14 Feb 1944 (two sheets) .4 Volume 7 No. 3 - 28 Feb 1944 (two sheets) .5 Volume 7 No. 4 - 6 Mar 1944 (two sheets) .6 Volume 7 No. 6 - 20 Mar 1944 (two sheets) .7 Volume VIII No. 1 - 29 May 1944 (two sheets)war, sports, cartoons -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH LABUAN, 1945
Keith David Livingston No VX136969 enlisted in the 2nd AIF on 21.6.43 age 20 years. At discharge from the Army he was a Pte in 173 Aust Field Ordnance Depot. He enlisted in Mataranka Northern Territory. He often told the story that he was in Darwin at the bombing and they moved them down to Katherine and then it was bombed so he was either in the CMF or working up there at the time and then enlisted in the AIF. B & W photo re group of soldiers - "FIRST MEAL ON THE BEACH" after landing Labuan 1945. Keith Livingston 2nd from the left "FIRST MEAL ON THE BEACH"photographs, photography, military history., labuan -
Melbourne Legacy
Book, We of the Never-Never by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, 1907
A copy of the book 'We of the Never Never' that was donated to Legacy by the author Jeannie Gunn. We of the Never Never is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn first published in 1908. Although published as a novel, it is an account of the author's experiences in 1902 at Elsey Station near Mataranka, Northern Territory in which she changed the names of people to obscure their identities. She published the book under the name Mrs Aeneas Gunn, using her husband's first and last name. A record that Legacy was given a copy of a highly successful book by its author.Red plastic covered card cover, grey dust cover with dark blue printing, black and white photo plates. Newspaper clippings glued inside front pages, including a photograph of four of the principal characters, no date or newspaper name.Handwritten: Sincerely yours / Jeannie Gunn / For the Legacy Club / Melbourne Sept.1.1938- donors, donations