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The joking digger : the diggers' book / compiled by Gnr. D. A. Williams, 3363, 1st D. A. C. , 110th Howitzer Batt. , 1914-1918
"Tales of the Diggers Old and New [?]"
The Derby 1915
Owing to the racing authorities having suspended The Derby this year Tommies at Epsom hold a meeting of their own. Photo shows wounded soldiers watching the race from the grandstand.
The pirates' first victim: the Norwegian ship "Belridge" torpedoed in the Channel
Photo shows how clearly the name & nationality of the vessel are painted on her side.
Belgium put the kibosh on the Kaiser / written and composed by Alf. Ellerton
Popular sixpenny edition ; no. 594. "By special arrangement with Francis, Day & Hunter, London." Copy 1 cover illustration shows a ventriloquist and his doll, "Sidney James and "Billy" of the Royal Strollers." Copy 2 illustration shows Hugh Steyne.
The story of Anzac Day : told for boys and girls by Alfred G. Waterworth ; with a foreword by John Gellibrand
Rare copy from the Lindsay Shaw Collection. Written for children, "with the approval of the Tasmanian Education Dept."
Souvenir of the grand review by the Governor General of Victorian returned naval men and members of the A.I.F.: Melbourne Cricket Ground, 3rd May, 1919
Printed by Osboldstone & Co.
The front line
Rare copy from Lindsay Shaw Collection. Open door (Melbourne, Vic. : 1920)
Anzac Bulletin
With the compliments of Anthony Hordern & Sons, Limited, Sydney
Issued to members of the Australian Military and Naval Forces in Great Britain, France and elsewhere by authority of the High Commissioner for Australia.
Issued to members of the Australian Military and Naval Forces in Great Britain, France and elsewhere by authority of the High Commissioner for Australia.
Valentine's Day February 14th, 1916
Single-leaf flier calling for produce and various articles to be donated to the Red Cross for sending to "sick and wounded soldiers at home and abroad", as "Valentine gifts".
Valentine's Day February 14th, 1916 / Australian Red Cross Society, Sydney, N.S.W
Single-leaf flier calling for produce and various articles to be donated to the Red Cross for sending to "sick and wounded soldiers at home and abroad", as "Valentine gifts". "Supplement to N.S.W. Red Cross Record, January 12th 1916."
The toast is ANZAC, gentlemen! / words by C.H. Souter ; music by C.W. MacCarthy
For voice and piano. "New edition".
S.A. children's patriotic times : the official paper of the Children's Patriotic Fund
Began July 1918, ceased July/August 1919. "Honour to those, who, unable to take their place on the Field of Battle, stand firmly behind the lines, ready to make any sacrifice that will bring greater strength to those who serve and suffer to King and…
Instructions for returned soldiers
This pamphlet is designed to supply returned soldiers of the 3rd Military District with information most commonly sought by them on and after arrival.
One copy will be handed to each man before disembarkation, and it will be his duty to make…
One copy will be handed to each man before disembarkation, and it will be his duty to make…
Britain's debt to France
This booklet tells how the British Committee of the French Red Cross is applying its organisation and funds to post-war problems.
Remnants from Randwick / compiled by the Committee for the Patients of the 4th A.G. Hospital
Reissue of Remnants from Randwick. No. 2. Illustration on front cover, by Fred Brown, shows a soldier in bed, sketching.
Supplementary ration card
Supplementary ration card issued to Norman William McLeod of Icknield Road, Leagrave. The retailer is E.W. Oulham, 198 Dunstable Road, Luton.
German "pill boxes" and "strong points" which cost many lives to conquer
The section of white cylinder in the fore-ground is what is left of a German machine gun shelter. The top has been knocked off by a direct hit. Our soldiers called these shelters "Pill Boxes", and had a wholesome respect for them. They were made of…
The Highland Regiment of the British Army marching through Boulogne
August 13th, 1914, was a memorable day for this historic and picturesque old French city. On that day, for the first time in the memory of living men, British soldiers, traditional enemies of France, landed on its quays and marched through its…
Tangled ruins of Marne Bridge blown up by Germans and Red Cross train wreck
After the Germans were defeated on the Marne in 1914 they did everything consistent with a hasty retreat, to hamper the pursuing French. In this case they have wrecked a railway bridge to cut what would otherwise be the route of the supply trains for…
President Poincaré and Marshall Joffre on the Somme front
Raymond Poincare (pwan'ka'ra'), President of the French Republic, and Joseph JofFrench (zho’fr'), Marshall of France and Commander-in-Chief of its armies, are here on a visit to the front during the great battle of the Somme, which began on July…
Desolate waste on Chemin Des Dames battlefield, France
Nowhere on the Western front was there more terrible fighting or more utter desolation of a once lovely countryside than on the plateau lying northeast of Soissons, which has come to be known in history as the Chemin de Dames. "Scarred beyond…
No Man's Land near Lens, France
Look as carefully as you can over this field of desolation and carnage and you will find hardly an inch of ground that has not been blasted over and over again by explosive shells. Those stumps, the remains of a beautiful orchard, show what kind of…
Shell bursting in the Grand' Place, Ypres, Belgium
Looking southwest from the front of the ancient Cloth Hall across the Grand' Place of Ypres, we have here before us for all time to come a vivid glimpse of war as it actually was during four long years in that old Flemish city. Ypres was once a…
Steel-helmeted Scots entrenched and cheerily awaiting a counterattack
Somewhere in the distance the Germans are scanning the plain, trying to determine just where these sturdy Scotsmen are and how many of them there may be, but the scene that greets their eyes is just as monotonous, just as desolate and devoid of life…
"Down in a shell crater. We fought like Kilkenny Cats" -Battle of Cambrai
This terrible war, started by Germany in her mad lust for empire, abounded in situations which tried men's souls to the limit and called for the exertion of every ounce of courage and resolution they possessed. This was one of those occasions. In the…
Bringing in 1900 German prisoners captured by American forces, France
A column of fours, as far as the eye can reach, nothing but Germans, muddy, sullen, and harmless, for they are prisoners, the result of a day's fighting. Some of them still wear their heavy steel trench helmets, others have the round gray caps with a…