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Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Welwyn, Herts, 1917. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 20pp., 18 photos. The Arden Press. Contemp.  #66947
[HLMainPic] Good quality illustrated souvenir of No. 4 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Digswell Place, Welwyn, an idyllic ivy-clad minor country house used as a convalescent home for wounded AIF officers. Photos. include staff & patient groups, gardens, mess room, hospital car, sports, &c. Orig. printed wraps., little chipped, some staining, sound & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £75
No. 5 Australian General Hospital (Base Hospital) Melbourne. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 22x15cm, [64]pp., photos. throughout. Melbourne: Speciality Press Pty. Ltd. nd (c.1916)  #67068
[HLMainPic] An illustrated souvenir of the hospital "Authorized by The State War Council & The Lord Mayor of Melbourne... Proceeds in Aid of Red Cross Society." Contains photos. of buildings, social & medical amenities, portraits of senior staff, groups of other staff & patients, &c., with letterpress account of the evolution of the establishment & its work. Attractive illus. wraps., somewhat creased & worn, overall generally VG. See illustrations on our website.   £65
The ANZAC Book: Written & Illustrated in Gallipoli by men of ANZAC. 1st Ed., xv+169pp., 4to, 11 col. & 2 b/w plates., illus. throughout. Cassell. 1916  #61048
[HLMainPic] Collection of stories, rhymes, recollections of Gallipoli &c., sold for the benefit of patriotic funds connected with ANZAC. Attractive work, little rubbed but entirely sound orig. blue cloth with col. onlay on front board depicting an ANZAC in martial pose. Nice ink presentation inscrip. "Norman Campell Maughan from W.R. Matthews A.I.F. Baiuleul [sic] 1918." The only person with the name of the recipient that I can locate was born 1908 & died 1987; the giver was William Robert Matthews, a farm labourer from South Australia who enlisted in 1916, served with the 50th Bn. AIF & was wounded by gunshot on 20/10/17 & again on 16/6/18. A copy of his service record is included.   £50
The ANZAC Book: Written & Illustrated in Gallipoli by men of ANZAC. 1st Ed., xv+169pp., 4to, 11 col. & 2 b/w plates., illus. throughout. VG in dw. Cassell. 1916  #61084
[HLMainPic] Collection of stories, rhymes, recollections of Gallipoli &c., sold for the benefit of patriotic funds connected with ANZAC. Attractive work, very nice copy in sl. chipped (but scarce) dw with oval cut-out to front revealing the heroic wounded yet still fighting Aussie from the coloured illustration on the front cover. See illustration on our website.   £120
The Gallant Legion. Complete set of 12 Vols. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1930s.  #66392
[HLMainPic] Angus & Robertson was the most prolific publisher of war memoirs in Australia after the Great War & produced a number of notable & several classic texts recording the experiences of Australian men & women in the Army, Naval, Nursing & Air services. At some point during the late 1930s, presumably to give a new lease of life to unbound sheets, the publisher reissued all these works in a series called The Gallant Legion. The sheets of various (but not 1st) editions were bound in excellent quality blue cloth with the series title at the head of the spine, plus the number of the volume in the series, with the individual volume title & author below, & a fighting soldier motif at the foot of the spine. All the volumes in this edition are complete as per the original texts, with all maps & photos. as originally published. This fine body of work, complete here in 12 volumes, includes: IDRIESS (Ion L.) The Desert Column; MAXWELL (J., VC, MC, DCM) Hell's Bells & Mademoiselles; WHITE (T.W.) Guests of the Unspeakable; RULE (E.J., MC, MM) Jacka's Mob; WILLIAMS (H.R.) The Gallant Company; TILTON (May) The Grey Battalion; REID (Frank) The Fighting Cameliers; MORROW (Edgar) Iron in the Fire; BURTON (O.E., MM) The Silent Division: New Zealanders at the Front 1914-1919; JONES (T.M.) Watchdogs of the Deep: Life in a Submarine During the Great War; SUTHERLAND (L.W., MC, DCM) Aces & Kings; MONASH (Gen. Sir John) The Australian Victories in France in 1918. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG throughout & excellent complete set. See illustrations on our website.   £425
The Navy List for December 1918. Royal Navy & Marines gradation list, also Coast Guard, Australian Navy, RNR, RNVR &c. This excellent end of WW1 edition includes full ship listings (noting appointments in the ship &c.). Much interesting detail. Contemp. blue cloth, gilt, sl. splitting of cloth, minor wear, lacking title page o/w VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.  #48451
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The Path of Honour: Sgt. Basil T. Wilmer's Experiences in the Great War, 1914-1918. 1st Ed., 160pp., portrait frontis., 17 photos., plate of original battlefield grave, diagram, sketch map. Launceston, Tasmania: A.W. Birchall & Sons. 1919  #65462
[HLMainPic] Diary from enlisting in August 1914 in 11th Bn. AIF, 1st Australian Div., training then landing at Gallipoli where wounded on the first day; rejoined after a few weeks convalescence then proceeded to Western Front where he exchanged into the Australian Field Artillery & was KiA with 3rd Battery AFA near Zillebeke on 21st July 1917, & buried at Reninghelst. Rare & detakled diary containing much of interest. Orig. dec. paper covd. boards, sp. chipped, generally VG. See illustrations on our website.   £250
[MELBOURNE CHURCH OF ENGLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL] War Records of Old Melburnians 1914-1918. Comp. & Ed. by J. Beacham Kiddle, OBE. 1st Ed., 395pp., 4to., frontis., approx. 250 portraits. Printed by Arbuckle Waddell Pty. Ltd. Melbourne. 1923  #65979
[HLMainPic] Rare records of the war services of pupils of the school inc. some 207 killed or died during the war, with around 700 portraits. Alongside the detailed obits. & records of service there are numerous extracts from letters of Old Melburnians at the Front & other matter. A very fine source on the Great War services of members of this Melbourne school. Orig. blue cloth gilt, covers lightly worn, VG. See illustrations on our wesbite.   £225
ADCOCK (Walter F.) Genuine War Letters Written by an Australian to his people from the Battlefields of France. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 288pp. Melbourne: National Press. nd (c.1919)  #67135
[HLMainPic] Letters written from France & Flanders Feb. 1916-Oct. 1918 with infantry (wounded in 1917 & hospitalised in UK for a period). Advert leaf claims: "Next to being at the Great War is Reading this Faithful Record of it." The author raised funds for the Melbourne Hospital through sale of the book. Note: No. 4651 Pte. Walter Adcock enlisted Jan. 1916 in 23rd Bn. AIF, served in France Dec. 1916-May 1917 when invalided with trench fever then again from Dec. 1917-Sept. 1918 when wounded (GSW right shoulder). Orig. printed wraps., VG, nice clean copy. See illustration on our website.   £45
ANZAC: ANZAC Memorial: Published by New South Wales Branch, Returned Soldiers Association in Sydney, Australia, 25th April, 1916. 1st Ed., 304pp., num. portraits & other photo. plates. Sydney: RS&SIL of NSW. 1916  #60704
[HLMainPic] This rare contemporary work (published to commemorate the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landing) contains the Roll of Hon. of officers & men of the New South Wales Contingent of the Australian Expeditionary Forces (including a portrait of Gen. Bridges & 27 fine portraits of fallen officers) followed by a collection of soldiers' stories & verse from Gallipoli, further portraits & many fine photos. of the Gallipoli Front, extracts from official despatches & more, including the 1915 diary of Pte. H.W. Cavill, appealing advertisements for various Australian commercial companies. A great deal of unusual & interesting contemp. material. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG with orig. wraps. bound in. See illustrations on our website.   £120

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