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Tables of exercises to assist instructors in the planning and application of daily physical training lessons for military personnel. This 1915 reprint includes additions and amendments including notes on marching and running training.

Small staple-bound booklet with a cream cover displaying a black double-line border on the front cover containing text printed in black. There is a white spine label attached to the base of the spine.

'VICTORIAN BRANCH / LIBRARY / ANZAC HOUSE' [stamped in red ink on second page]

australian military forces, soldiers - physical activity, military exercise, military training, marching

The special object of this handbook is the instruction and guidance of Nursing orderlies A.A.M.C. for nursing duties in Dressing Stations and Hospitals. It is intended also to be a guide and reference book for instructors and tutors in assessing the standard required for training in nursing duties. In addition, it is intended to be a handy reference book for use by nursing orderlies in the field. - Preface page 3

Staple-bound booklet with light brown cover with black print. Spine label taped to base of spine.

'VICTORIAN BRANCH / LIBRARY / ANZAC HOUSE' [stamped in red ink on first two pages] 'Capt RM ??ewhella' [handwritten at top of front cover]

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Practical reference for preparation and identification of indigenous foods in Papua New Guinea for allied soldiers during World War 2. -from Trove record.

Small staple-bound booklet with light brown cardboard cover with black print. There is a white spine label at the base of spine.

'VICTORIAN BRANCH / LIBRARY / ANZAC HOUSE' [stamped in red ink on first page] '? Kettle' [Handsigned in blue ink on the front cover, blurred by previous water damage] 'NX30892 / Lieut. R.E.W.Kettle / R.A.E. / New Guinea Force / June 1943-?' [Handwriiten on inside front cover in blue ink] 'R.S.W.Kettle / Lieut. (R.A.E.)' [Handsigned on inside back cover in blue ink].

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This book gives you an outline of the arrangements made to assist you in returning to civil life. A very large book indeed would be needed to describe all the arrangements in detail. Therefore an endeavour has been made to tell you in the simplest possible form - What Provisions Exist; What Authorities deal with them; How to apply for them. -- Page iii.

Small staple-bound booklet . Cover is divided into thirds. The top third is blue with the words 'return to' printed in cream. The middle third is red with the words 'civil life' printed in cream. The bottom third is light blue with the sub-title printed in dark blue text next to a white emblem of Australia. There is a white spine label attached to the base of the spine.

'VICTORIAN BRANCH / LIBRARY / ANZAC HOUSE' [stamped in red ink on first page] [There are a list of months and calculations scribbled over the back cover in pencil] '[signature ?] / NX30892' [Handwritten in pencil on the front cover]

reconstruction - australia - 1939-1951, veterans -australia, veterans-employment, veterans-education, returned soldiers, civil life

Handbook produced for military personnel in 1919 by the Australian Defence Force. It provides detailed information on physical activity, its benefits, specific exercises, suggestions and rules for organised games. It also includes a section on recreational training, ranging from athletics meetings to cross-country running and sports like basketball, hockey, etc. It would have been a valuable resource for an instructor.

Worn, brown booklet with white spine label taped to base of spine. The front cover has a double black line border with title and content details printed in black ink.

'Basketball Pages 87-88' [Handwritten in pencil on the front cover beneath contents list] 'Second Liet. H.K.PARKIN / 6/29 INF. Reg. / DRILL HALL PRESTON' [Handwritten in black ink on the top of inside cover] 'VICTORIAN BRANCH / LIBRARY / ANZAC HOUSE' [stamped in red ink on index page]

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These medals were awarded to Patricia Catherine Vines of the Australian Navy and Royal Australian Navy Nursing Service (RANNS). Extracts from Sea Power Centre website (listed in references): "Patricia Catherine Vines was born in Fairfield, Melbourne on 5 September 1925. Educated at the Catholic Ladies College, East Melbourne, on completion of her Intermediate Certificate, Vines undertook secretarial training before working at the Department of Aircraft Productions and then the Gun Turret Factory at Fairfield where she was still working when World War II ended in 1945. It was while she was working in the X-Ray Department at St Vincent’s Hospital that she decided to become a nurse, beginning her training in December 1948 and becoming a Registered Nurse in 1952, and a qualified midwife two years later. In 1959, in search of something different, Vines applied for a civilian nursing role at HMAS Cerberus, Flinders Naval Depot where she was employed until leaving to travel to New Zealand, Canada and the United States in 1962." "Commander Vines was presented with a Royal Red Cross in early 1972. The medal, presented by the Governor of Victoria, Sir Rohan Delacombe, was awarded for ‘exceptional competence and devotion to duty’. Also awarded were Sergeant Leslie Bending of the Naval Police (left) who received the British Empire Medal for dedicated service, and Lieutenant Commander Winston James (right) who received the Distinguished Service Cross in recognition of outstanding leadership and bravery while serving as commander of the RAN Helicopter Flight in Vietnam. During that time (1971-1980) she was also appointed an Honorary Nursing Sister to Queen Elizabeth II. In 1972 Patricia was awarded a Royal Red Cross (RRC) 2nd Class in the New Year Honours List and in January 1981 this was upgraded to a Royal Red Cross 1st class. The awards officially recognised her exceptional devotion and competency in performance of nursing duties in the RAN." "Following a 16-year career in the Navy and having reached retirement age, Patricia Vines retired from the RAN in 1980 and ran her own nursing business in Melbourne until 1995. Patricia Catherine Vines passed away in Melbourne on 15 February 2010, aged 85 years." Vines was a consistent paid member of the Returned Nurses Club (Returned Nurses Sub Branch RSL Victoria) from 1989 to her passing.

A mounted set of six miniature medals (approximately a quarter of the size of the medals they represent) of various coloured metals with ribbons of many colours. The Royal Red Cross miniature medal is in the "shape of a golden cross... the obverse enamelled red, with a circular medallion, bearing an effigy of the reigning monarch [Queen Elizabeth II] at its centre. The words "Faith", "Hope" and "Charity" are inscribed on the upper limbs of the cross, with the year "1883" in the lower limb. The reverse is plain except a circular medallion bearing the royal cypher of the reigning monarch" [Wikipedia - see References], on this miniature medal the initials are ER. The ribbon is a dark blue stripe between crimson edge stripes and forms a landscape oriented bow that the medal hangs from the middle. The Australian Service Medal 1945-75 is "nickel-silver with the Australian Coat of Arms surrounded by the words The Australian Service Medal 1945-1975 on the obverse. The reverse has a Federation Star... The ribbon has central stripes of yellow and green, flanked by navy blue, khaki and light blue stripes from the Australia Service Medal 1939-45. A nickel-silver clasp with the name of the theatre or action for which the award is made is presented with the medal." [Australian Government Defence website - see References] This miniature has the PNG clasp and the navy blue stripe has faded to look more purple in colour. The Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal 1977 comprises a "silver disc with, on the obverse, the words ELIZABETH II DEI GRA. REGINA FID. DEF. (Latin abbreviation for "Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen, Defender of the Faith") surrounding an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, symbolising her role as fount of honour.[6] On the reverse is a crown atop a wreath that contains the words THE 25th YEAR OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II 6 February 1977 in six lines... The ribbon is white with cardinal red bands along the edges...and a... garter blue stripe down the centre, bisected by another... line of cardinal red" [Wikipedia - see References] The Defence Force Service Medal is a "cupro-nickel circular chamfered medal. The obverse has the Joint Service emblem. The reverse is inscribed For Efficient Service In The Permanent Forces around the circumference. The ribbon has 3 equal stripes of gold and azure-blue edged with azure-blue. The colours were the national colours of Australia at the time of introduction." [Australian Government Defence website - see References] the blue stripes have faded to look more purple in colour. The National Medal is "bronze. The obverse shows the Arms of the Commonwealth of Australia within a rim carrying the inscription The National Medal For Service. The reverse is plain. The ribbon has 15 alternating gold and blue stripes. The colours were the national colours of Australia at the time of introduction." [Australian Government Defence website - see References] Again, blue has faded to purple on the ribbon. The Australian Defence Medal is "cupronickel. The obverse has a stylised version of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms as used on the Australia Service Medal 1939-45. This is surrounded by the inscription The Australian Defence Medal above a sprig of wattle. The reverse has the inscription For Service below the Crown of St Edward surrounded by 2 sprays of wattle leaves and blossom. The ribbon is red with black edges, the colours of the Flanders poppy that represent the Anzac spirit of the Australian armed forces. The white stripes divide the ribbon into 3 to denote the three Services and represent service contributing to the peace of Australia." [Australian Government Defence website - see References] The miniature medals are court-mounted on a rigid backing with a long pin and the backing covered with a full size strip of ribbon in the Royal Red Cross medal colours.

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This Royal Red Cross was awarded to Minnie Maud McNab who served as a nurse then Sister in Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Staff Reserve, Dr Bird's Unit during WWI. "Appointed to QAIMNSR 22 January 1915 Arrived in Egypt 22 January 1915 Embarked Bombay 18 April 1917 Disembarked Basrah 26 April 1917 Posted No 3 British General Hospital 26 April 1917 Admitted to hospital 03 May 1917 Discharged 07 May 1917 Joined for duty at Bagdad 23 May 1917 Appointed Assistant Matron to 31 BSH at Basrah 01 December 1917 Mentioned in Lieut General Sir F S Mande's despatch dated 02 November 1917 London Gazette No 30570 Joined for temporary duty Baghdad 24 May 1918 Admitted OCD 29 July 1918 Discharged 17 August 1918 and returned to Duty Left unit to proceed on leave to India 24 August 1918 Proceeded to India on leave per 'Kina' 01 September 1918 Returned from Leave 31 October 1918 Rejoined unit from leave Baghdad 10 November 1918 Awarded Royal Red Cross 1st Class in recognition of valuable services with the British Forces in Mesopotamia 26 August 1918 (Gazette No 30865) Mentioned in despatches by Lt. General W R Marshall in his despatch dated 15 April 1918 (Gazette No 30867) Admitted to Hospital 11 January 1919 Discharged from Hospital 10 February 1919 31 B S Hospital 'Sister Minnie Maud McNab QAIMNS Reserve has served under me for eighteen months as Sister and Assistant Matron, the duties of the latter she performed to my entire satisfaction. I consider her a thoroughly well trained Nurse, most kind and attentive to the patients, she is energetic, reliable, punctual, tactful and good tempered. Her powers of administration and initiative are excellent and she has great ability in instructing the orderlies. I recommend her for further service if required, promotion and for full gratuity.' Transferred to UK for duty 21 February 1919 Embarked 'Vasna' 21 February 1919 or UK Appointment terminated 21 July 1919 Departed from her unit 21 July 1919 After taking a holiday in Scotland asked for temporary duty if her passage home was not available. Posted to Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich 08 September 1919 Postal address whilst awaiting repatriation Berrington War Hospital, Shrewbury Returning to Australia per 'Northumberland' trans-shipped at Bombay ex 'Macedonia' embarked England 01 November 1919" (https://ausww1nurses.weebly.com/mca-mcn.html) "The Royal Red Cross is a military decoration awarded in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth for exceptional services in military nursing. It was established on 27 April 1883 by Queen Victoria... The Royal Red Cross was originally a single class of Member and it was first awarded to the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. A second class, Associate, was added during World War I in 1917. The award is awarded to a fully trained nurse of an officially recognized nursing service, military or civilian, who has shown exceptional devotion and competence in the performance of nursing duties, over a continuous and long period, or who has performed an exceptional act of bravery and devotion at her or his post of duty. The decoration was conferred exclusively to women until 1976. Recipients of the Royal Red Cross are entitled to use the post-nominal letters “RRC” or “ARRC” for Members and Associates respectively." [https://collectionswa.net.au/items/25f38e85-6c15-429f-95b6-0a24c241e199]

A thin, black, textured leather coated box with gold lettering 'R R C' in the centre and '1st' in the bottom left corner. Has a white sticker attached to the top right hand corner with red handwritten 'M47'. The box has a small metal button on bottom section that when pushed opens the box. The leather is damaged and fraying around the edges and corners of the box and there are various scratch marks that have removed the black paint/dye from the leather in places. Inside, the box lid is lined with padded fabric (likely silk or satin), has the manufacturer details printed at the centre of lid. There is a small blue ink mark on the fabric in the top left of the inside of the lid and minor holes and wear in the upper portion of the lid. The bottom part of the box is a mount covered in blue velvet. The mount and velvet have a depression in the shape of the main Royal Red Cross (RRC) medal and ribbon. The velvet is dusty and has some fibres in the creases and across the whole area. "The badge for the RRC is in the shape of a golden cross, 1.375 inches (3.49 cm) wide, the obverse enamelled red, with a circular medallion, bearing an effigy of the reigning monarch at its centre. The words "Faith", "Hope" and "Charity" are inscribed on the upper limbs of the cross, with the year "1883" in the lower limb. The reverse is plain except a circular medallion bearing the royal cypher of the reigning monarch" [Wikipedia - see References], on this medal the initials are GRJ. The ribbon is a dark blue stripe between crimson edge stripes and forms a landscape oriented bow that the medal hangs from the middle. This box also contains a miniature medal, bearing the same description as above being of [approximately quarter size]. There is a white sticker on the underside of the box that has handwritten in black ink 'RNC / J McCarthy'

'M47' [red ink on white sticker attached to top of box] 'RNC / J McCarthy' [black ink on white sticker attached to underneath of box] 'M.M.McNAB / 1914-1919' [Engraved on bottom of the lower part of the full sized medal's cross]

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A.B.C Poem written by Sister Isabelle Williams

Single page with typewritten text F C.C.S. A.B.C Written by Sister Isabelle Williams capturing life in the Army

sister isabelle williams, army, nursing

A commemorative article about Sister Eileen Rutherford who died on board the AHS Centaur on 14 May 1943. Photographs of Sister Eillen Rutherford in uniform and the memorial book opened to the page with her name. The article reproduces a 1951 letter signed by Betty Jeffrey and Vivian Bullwinkle.

Single page black and white photocopy of an article with photographs of Sister Eileen Rutherford

sister eileen rutherford, vivian bullwinkle, australian nurses, australian army nursing service, ww2, world war 2, ahs centaur

Articles concerned with Hastings Anzac Day services

Newspaper clipping, black and white, with three stories and two photographs about Anzac Day commemorations. One photograph is of a group of soldiers in the trenches. amd one features five nurses on ship titled 'NURSES shipped out

Handwritten 'April '97'

bob shepperd, father williams, graham holt

Paperback book with title printed in red print across the front and spine on a cream coloured background. The lower half of the cover contains an image of soldiers walking in a line along a path on barren land, the first soldier carries a white flag, behind him two of the other soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher. followed by two more soldiers.

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In 1915, Private Roy Ramsay, freshly trained at a camp near Brisbane, set sail from Australia for the Middle East with the 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance. This account of his time in the Middle East and Europe was edited by Roy's son Ron from Roy's journal. [Trove]

roy ramsay, australian army- trnsport of sick and wounded, field ambulance, wwi, ww1, world war 1914-1918, first world war, 3rd field ambulance, medical care

Tan hardcover book with a lighter dust jacket. Front cover has title and author printed in red, There are five white images of badges from different Nursing Services positioned across the front and back covers.There is aspine label sticker at the base of the spine and yellowing tape across a tear in the front cover.

non-fiction

Story of the British Army Nursing Services from the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day.

australian military history, queen alexandra's royal army nursing corps, nursing-history, great britain-military nursing

Hardcover book with a dark green dust jacket. Title is printed in white across the cover and spine. There is a small framed illustration of three military men on the lower part of the cover. There is a white spine label sticker at the base of the spine.

non-fiction

australian military history, australian armed forces history, australian defence force, dictionary

Blue paperback book with the title printed in white across the top of the front cover and along spine. The remainder of the cover is covered by a blue and brown illustration of a nurse in white uniform, overlaid along the bottom is a drawing of 8 nurses in blue and white uniforms standing in front of a row of buildings. There is a white spine label sticker in the bottom left corner of the front cover.

non-fiction

This autobiography tells of the author's childhood in the 1920s and describes her subsequent work as a nurse at various hospitals in Melbourne, including the Austin and the Queen Victoria Memorial. Includes references and a bibliography. [Trove]

fleur finnie, nursing-australia-melbourne, nursing history-melbourne

Sepia toned cover with two images on the front (a portrait of a woman, and three nursing sisters) and an image of a woman in profile on the back. The title is printed across the front and spine in white print, sub-title and author in brown.

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At the outbreak of World War I, Narrelle Hobbes was the matron of the small and remote Brewarrina hospital in north-western NSW. Keen to be an active participant in the war, Narrelle, aged 36, decided to travel to London in March 1915 in order to join Queen Alexandra's Imperial Medical Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR). By May she was in Malta nursing the sick and wounded from Gallipoli. She later nursed in Sicily, India and Mesopotamia (now modern day Iran/Iraq). The Mesopotamia campaign, fought between the British and the Turks, is one of the largely forgotten theatres of the war. Narrelle spent 10 months in Basra and later Amara, on the Tigris River, nursing casualties and patients with appalling diseases such as enteric fever, dysentery, typhoid and cholera. After falling sick, she then spent six months recuperating in the foothills of the Himalayas at the remote hill station of Binsar in Uttar Pradesh. Narrelle is based on an extraordinary collection of letters written home to her family ('Dearest Peoples' and signed 'oceans of love') in Australia, letters that are a witty and evocative reminder of an extraordinary period in Australian history from the perspective of an Australian girl from the bush. [Trove]

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Cover design wraps around the spine and both covers. Lower section is a pale yellow/white colour with silver text. The higher section is a torn green image of a grassed field and tree with black and white images of a lady and pram, a young boy, and a man in a wheelchair with one red poppy. The back cover image is a welcome home sign with a gathering of people beneath it.

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Living with the Scars of War tells the untold story of thousands of Australian families who welcomed home disabled soldiers after the First World War. It offers a poignant account of the impact of physical injury and shell shock upon returned soldiers, and explores the profound and lasting consequences of disablement for their kin in the 1920s and 1930s. Drawing the reader into the emotional interior of family life, it evocatively brings to light the daily struggles of Australia's 90,000 'changed men', and reveals the significant burdens carried by their family members--Provided by publisher.

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Hard-cover book with dust-jacket. The image on the dustjacket is pale green and wraps around both front and back covers and spine, it shows the face of a soldier and of men walking across a wooden pathway across mud and water. The title is printed across the middle of the front cover in lettering made up of black and white photos of a variety of faces.

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Stories of ordinary Australians caught up by circumstances and by duty. Features their telling of how they answered war's ruthless questions. What are you worth? In what do you believe? Can you endure? Stories from winners of the VC, POWs, the patrols of Vietnam, peacekeepers in Rwanda, nurses from aid agencies and others. [Trove]

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The bottom half of the cover and the spine are black with the title printed in silver. The top half is a sepia photograph of two smiling prisoners of war, the bottom of the image is overlaid with black barbed wire.

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Stories from the Australians at War Film Archive that follows the stories of the POWs from capture to eventual liberation. The book ranges across all the wars, from the men and women trapped under the ruthless Japanese regime, to the forgotten POWs of the Germans and the Italians, captured in Crete or Greece, or anywhere in occupied Europe. [Trove]

prisoners of war, wwii, ww2, world war 1939-1945, second world war, australian prisoners of war

Black paperback book with a close-up, black and white image of part of a soldiers face. The title is printed in yellow and the sub-title and author in white.

non-fiction

Bravest tells the story of 15 Australian war heroes and how they won the highest medals awarded for bravery, from the Boer War to the war in Vietnam. [Trove]

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Hard-cover book with cream coloured dust jacket. There is an olive green and black toned photographic image wrapped around the top half of the cover and spine, it shows soldiers leading a man with bandaged eyes towards a jeep in the jungle, with other soldiers gathered around. The lower half of the cover is cream with blue text. There is a white label on the base of the spine with blue handwritten call number .

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It is the story of the men of 2/2 Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces, who fought in the Middle East, Greece, and Papua New Guinea. The author describes the experience of battle and warfare itself: of fear and injury, of hunger and tiredness, of sickness, of marches through snow and jungles, of loneliness and bravery. The book provides an anatomy of war through the experience of this volunteer battalion who fought in all major theatres in World War II in which Australians took part. [from Trove]

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Olive green paperback cover. The spine shows the title in black and white print with an image of a nurse at the top. The front cover has a full page image of a woman in a white nurse's uniform with red cape and the title overlaid over the top. There is a white spine label at the base of the spine.

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Kitty's War is based upon the previously unpublished diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same part of regional Victoria, except many decades apart. The idea of this young nurse setting out in July 1915 on a journey that would take her across the world and into the First World War took hold of Janet Butler and inspired her to research and share Kit's story. [from Trove record]

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Front cover has a full page image of a female Air Force member in uniform. The title and author details are overlaid across the top of the image.The spine is dark red with white text.

non-fiction

When Sharon, as a young Registered Nurse from Tasmania, joined the Royal Australian Air Force it was with the goal of providing humanitarian aid to the world. She never imagined that, on her retirement, she would have served in East Timor, Bali and Afghanistan – working to save the lives of others, but almost losing her own. As an Air Force Officer, she not only survived a helicopter crash that left her with a shattered lower jaw and a broken back, but fought back from her injuries to resume her military duties. As commander of a combat surgical team during some of the most intense fighting in Afghanistan, she made sure that the first and last sight for any Australian soldier on the operating table was the Australian flag. As a nurse, she experienced heartbreak of losing patients, some of whom she and her team had battled for hours to save.” -- Back cover.

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Hardcover book with dust jacket. The cover has a cream panel across the top with the title in brown print. Below this is a grey panel with the subtitle. Below that is a large brown panel displaying a black and white photo of Olive King, on either side of the photo are three smaller images of various medals (six in total). There is a thin grey panel across the bottom with the editor's name. There is a torn white sticker label around the base of the spine.

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Olive King was born in Sydney in 1885. She offered her services as an ambulance driver soon after war broke out in 1914. She joined a small private organisation early in 1915 and went to Belgium. In May 1915 she joined the Scottish Women's Hospitals and her letters, until now unpublished, date from that time. She joined the Serbian Army in 1916 and subsequently rose to the rank of sergeant. Driving on hazardous roads to the Front and to the Adriatic coast, she was often in danger. She was awarded a Serbian silver medal for bravery, and later a gold medal. Her letters not only give a picture of daily life under wartime conditions and in the immediate post-war years. They also show how a woman of the time regarded herself and her place in society. [taken from Trove]

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Hardcover with dark purple dust jacket. Title printed in white along the spine and a white spine label sticker at the base. The front cover shows an image of three men carrying another man on a stretcher through thick mud. The lower half of the cover shows the title details in large white print.

non-fiction

The Australian Army was woefully unprepared to fight a medical war in Papua and the soldiers paid the price. Almost 30,000 soldiers suffered from illness and tropical diseases, and an estimated 6000 were killed or wounded during the six-month campaign. These statistics have traditionally been represented as unavoidable consequences of fighting a war in a place such as Papua. This book disputes that narrative. Death and disease were inevitable outcomes, but the scale of the suffering was not. The medical challenges presented in Papua were extreme - they were not insurmountable. Shadows on the Track considers a wide range of issues that impacted on the health of the Australian soldiers before, during and after the Papuan campaign was fought and won. The strengths, successes, shortcomings and failures of the medical campaign are identified, analysed and evaluated. The focus on the front-line medical personnel - the men of the field ambulance units - brings a new perspective to the battles of the Kokoda Track, Milne Bay and the Beachheads. [taken from Trove record]

2/6 australian army field ambulance, australian army medical care, transport of sick and wounded, medical aspects of war, papuanew guinea, world war 1939-1945, wwii, ww2, kokoda, milne bay, beachhead

Paperback cover with black spine. The spine contains a red panel with title details and a silhouette of a soldier. The front cover is a black and white image of the silhouettes of three soldiers, there is a red panel in the top right corner showing the title and author. At the base of the spine is a white label.

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The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans. A fourth, Russia, was in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century. The Oxford History of the First World War brings together in one volume many of the most distinguished historians of the conflict, in an account that matches the scale of the events. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals, they chart the course of the war and assess its profound political and human consequences. Chapters on economic mobilization, the impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of socialism establish the wider context of the fighting at sea and in the air, and which ranged on land from the trenches of Flanders to the mountains of the Balkans and the deserts of the Middle East. First published for the 90th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, this highly illustrated revised edition contains significant new material to mark the 100th anniversary of the war’s outbreak. [taken from Trove record]

australian armed forces, ww1, wwi, world war one, world war 1914-1918, military history

Paperback book with black spine and white print. Front cover is a full page, black and white image, of the Victory March in London in 1919. The title is printed in the top right corner. There is a white spine label sticker at the base of the spine.

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This book explores over twenty sites of significance to Australians in wartime Britain, telling some of the stories that made up the Australian experience of two world wars. Contents: Crimson thread of kinship -- Australian War Memorial -- Tower Hill Memorial -- Australia House -- Imperial Camel Corps Memorial -- Cenotaph -- Australian Red Cross Worker Vera Deakin -- Grave of the unknow warrier -- Prime Ministers and High Commissioners -- Gunner Arthur Sullivan VC Plaque -- Buckingham Palace -- Battle of Britain -- Cavalry of the Empire Memorial -- AIF Cemetery -- Air Forces Memorial -- Brookwood Military Cemetery -- Chester Wilmot -- St John the Evangelist Church -- Leighterton Cemetery -- Commander William Warren DSO plaque -- Plymouth Naval Memorial -- 10 Squadron RAAF Memorial -- Grave of Pilot Officer Rawdon Middleton VC -- Grave of Sergeant Thomas Hunter -- St Michael's Chapel -- Women of the Empire Memorial -- Australian Servicemen remembered -- Australia in the United Kingdom -- Australians buried or commemorated in the United Kingdom. [taken from Trove record]

ww2, wwii, second world war, world war 1939-1945, australian armed forces, ww1, wwi, world war one, world war 1914-1918, cemetaries, memorials, monuments, great britain

Paperback book with black spine and white print. Front cover is a full page, black and white image, of the Victory March in London in 1919. The title is printed in the top right corner. There is a white spine label sticker at the base of the spine.

non-fiction

This book explores over twenty sites of significance to Australians in wartime Britain, telling some of the stories that made up the Australian experience of two world wars. Contents: Crimson thread of kinship -- Australian War Memorial -- Tower Hill Memorial -- Australia House -- Imperial Camel Corps Memorial -- Cenotaph -- Australian Red Cross Worker Vera Deakin -- Grave of the unknow warrier -- Prime Ministers and High Commissioners -- Gunner Arthur Sullivan VC Plaque -- Buckingham Palace -- Battle of Britain -- Cavalry of the Empire Memorial -- AIF Cemetery -- Air Forces Memorial -- Brookwood Military Cemetery -- Chester Wilmot -- St John the Evangelist Church -- Leighterton Cemetery -- Commander William Warren DSO plaque -- Plymouth Naval Memorial -- 10 Squadron RAAF Memorial -- Grave of Pilot Officer Rawdon Middleton VC -- Grave of Sergeant Thomas Hunter -- St Michael's Chapel -- Women of the Empire Memorial -- Australian Servicemen remembered -- Australia in the United Kingdom -- Australians buried or commemorated in the United Kingdom. [taken from Trove record]

ww2, wwii, second world war, world war 1939-1945, australian armed forces, ww1, wwi, world war one, world war 1914-1918, cemetaries, memorials, monuments, great britain

Staple bound white booklet with an image of a military plane on the cover. Wording is printed in blue and red print to match the colours of the Australian flag which is depicted waving in the bottom corner.

non-fiction

A collection of poems written by ex-WAAAF (Women's Australian Auxilary Airforce) A.C.W. (aircraftwoman) (92848), Beryl Sindel. 'In this volume of poems, Beryl Sindel pays tribute to those women who between the years 1939 and 1945, voluntarily changed the direction of their lives and faced the unknown with unselfish devotion and patriotism.' [taken from foreward written by David Young]

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Staple bound paperback booklet with faded dark purple cover. White spine label wrapped around base of spine. Front cover has a black double border and black writing.

non-fiction

This booklet contains descriptions of many of the overseas cemeteries in which Australians who served in the First World War are buried.

australian defence forces, cemeteries, disposition of soldiers bodies, ww1, wwi, first world war, unknown soldiers

Staple bound booklet with light blue cover and black text. There is an image of the Rising Sun badge in the centre. There is a reference sticker and spine label in the lower left corner.

non-fiction

The first badge to be officially worn by Australian Commonwealth troops on active service overseas, was a badge depicting the Rising Sun with the crown of King Edward VII, and the word AUSTRALIA. Since that first badge was worn in South Africa in 1902, the Rising Sun badge has proudly been worn by servicemen and women in five major wars and by members of the Citizen military Forces in the periods between. [J.K.Cossum]

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