Auction - April 10 - Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

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ANZAC
FROM
TO THE
HINDENBURG LINE
The Patrick Walters Collection
To be sold at auction
Sunday 10 April 2016 at 2:30 pm
at 196 North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia
All items on view at the venue in the week preceding the sale
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Michael Treloar A ntiquarian Booksellers
196 North Terrace, Adelaide (GPO Box 2289, Adelaide, SA 5001)
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Illustration from Lot 150

Table of Contents
On Active Service
Lots 1–63
Memoirs
64–101
Commemoration
102–144
Art
145–156
Literature
157–171
Official and other Histories
172–188
Australian Unit Histories
Infantry Battalions
189–221
Light Horse Units
222–230
Other Units
231–238
239–249
New Zealand Unit Histories
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Notes for Buyers
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NOTES FOR BUYERS
Introduction
G
rowing up on a sheep station in South Australia in the late 1950s my family would occasionally make the long, dusty
drive back to my father’s childhood home at the old winery at Reynella. The rambling five-acre garden, musty stone
cellars, stables, vineyards and paddocks were a wonderful place to roam. The old homestead with its dark green wooden
shutters, stone-flagged verandah, and gloomy interior seemed possessed by a melancholy spirit. My elderly great aunt,
Lenore Reynell, still lived on in the house. After her beloved younger brother, Carew, had been killed at Hill 60, Anzac, in
late August 1915 things were never the same at Reynella.
In December 1914 Carew, aged 31, had sailed off to war, as major and second-in-command of the 9th Light Horse, leaving
behind a thriving wine-making business, his wife, May, and two infant children. In the wake of his death the family business,
Walter Reynell and Sons, drifted through the 1920s and then gradually withered in the absence of Carew’s restless energy
and managerial drive.
The two world wars cast a deep shadow over our family as they did for so many Australian households. Carew’s brotherin-law had been killed at Anzac soon after the landing and a first cousin, Donald Hankey, had been killed on the Somme.
My father, a night fighter pilot in England in WW2, lost his brother and two first cousins in that conflict, including Carew’s
only son, Dick Reynell, in the Battle of Britain. Dick was a gifted
flyer and a Hurricane test pilot.
In the 1960s the extended family severed its connections with
Reynella and the wine business started by my great-greatgrandfather, John Reynell, in the early 1840s. The house and its
vineyards were sold and eventually purchased by the Hardy winemaking family. In the 1850s the young Thomas Hardy had found
his first employment in the wine industry in South Australia
working for John Reynell.
Carew Reynell’s story stirred my life-long interest in the First AIF
and Australia’s military history. Right from the start the story of
Anzac, near the fabled Dardanelles on the shores of the Aegean
Sea, exerted great fascination. The first book on the campaign I
devoured in 1962 was Dale Collins’ Anzac Adventure followed
by Alan Moorehead’s Gallipoli. Then came C.E.W. Bean’s twoPatrick Walters at Chunuk Bair, April 24, 1975,
volume official history, The Story of Anzac, and later his Gallipoli
th
with 9 Light Horse veteran Clive Newman.
Mission—an evocative account of the return to the old Anzac
Suvla Bay and Salt Lake in background.
battlefield in the company of the artist, George Lambert, and the
official war photographer, Hubert Wilkins, in early 1919. Reading Gallipoli Mission made my mind up—I would undertake
my own pilgrimage to Anzac and rediscover the battlefields and find Carew’s grave.
My grandmother’s first cousin, Maurice Hankey, who served as Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence in London,
wrote unforgettably of his short visit to Anzac in July 1915, at the request of British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith.
Hankey pictured the hills above Anzac Cove ‘scarred by hundreds of dug-outs where the men standing off-duty live like
the anchorites and hermits that I have seen in some parts of Greece’. He expressed the hope that ‘we shall hear no more of
the “indiscipline” of this extraordinary (Anzac) corps, for I don’t believe that for military qualities of every kind their equal
exists.’
Hankey also described the remarkable labyrinth of trenches at Anzac including communications trenches eight feet deep
and wide enough to take mule traffic: ‘They are so wonderfully designed, so deep, and provided with such numerous and
well-constructed dugouts that one feels as safe in them as in Downing Street’. To his wife, Adeline, he wrote that ‘these
Australian trenches are the most wonderful thing in the world and far better than anything I have seen in France. The men
are also wonderful—huge, strong intelligent soldiers, devoid of nerves, full of wonderful cunning, every man thinking of
nothing but how to beat the enemy. I don’t believe we have anything to touch them’.
At Anzac Carew Reynell kept a vivid diary of his three months camped on the cliffs above North Beach, a sojourn which
saw him assume command of the 9th Light Horse Regiment after the tragic charge at the Nek on 7 August 1915. He also
befriended Aubrey Herbert, the Turkish-speaking English aristocrat, and liaison officer with the New Zealanders at Anzac.
INTRODUCTION
Herbert kept perhaps the finest personal record of any of the British officers who served at Anzac, published anonymously
as Mons, Anzac and Kut in 1919. As the summer sun went down over the isle of Samothrace he and Carew planned post-war
adventures. After Carew’s death he wrote a wistful poem about his Australian friend entitled ‘To R. at Anzac.’
You left your vineyards, dreaming of the vines in a dream land
And dim Italian cities where high cathedrals stand.
At Anzac in the evening so many things we planned,
And now you sleep with comrades in the Anafarta sand …
My very first book purchase in the field of military history was an abridged edition of Winston Churchill’s The Second World
War purchased with pocket money at the age of ten. I still have the book, proudly inscribed in May 1963, in my library. My
serious book collecting on the First AIF began with the purchase well over 40 years ago of a first edition of The Anzac Book
edited by Charles Bean and published by Cassell in London soon after the evacuation. The seller was a First AIF veteran and
he also sold me the first issue I had seen of the Kia Ora Coo-ee, the Light Horse magazine published in Cairo. In the early
1970s I also got to know John Holroyd, then running Swain’s, the rare book division of Angus and Robertson, and looking
after the sale of the great Geoffrey Ingleton collection. From John Holroyd I began to learn about the rare book trade and
he encouraged my early attempts to track down scarce AIF material.
Fresh out of university I finally made it to Anzac in April 1975, hitchhiking north from Athens along the Thracian coast
in spring sunshine to the Turkish border and then down the Gallipoli Peninsula in time for Anzac Day. My first sight of
Anzac Cove sent a shiver down my spine. The beach was completely deserted and virtually unchanged when compared
with photographs taken in 1919. As I wrote in my diary in April 1975 the terrain at Anzac looked, after years of studying
maps and photos, ‘all terribly familiar and exciting’. With bushfires having swept the northern Anzac area the year before,
the old battlefield resembled the scene photographed by Charles Bean in 1915—the slopes around Monash Valley clear of
undergrowth compared to the thick green scrub that now covers the battlefield.
In that 60th anniversary year a dozen Gallipoli veterans made the long trip from Australia. I was privileged to get to know
these men who had forged an incomparable bond at Anzac—some of them like John Gordon from the South Australian 10th
Battalion, coming ashore in the first wave at dawn on 25 April 1915. The deputy leader of the official party, Clive Newman,
had been an 18 year-old trooper in the 9th Light Horse in 1915. He had a very clear recollection of his former CO, Carew
Reynell. After a chance meeting on the afternoon of 24 April standing on the summit of Chunuk Bair, Clive Newman
immediately adopted me as an honorary member of the official Australian party. The next morning around 60 people
gathered for the dawn service at the cemetery beside the sea at Ari Burnu including two backpackers—myself and the
Melbourne poet, Malcolm Brodie.
Over the next fortnight I roamed all over the old Anzac battlefield from Gaba Tepe to Fisherman’s Hut, scrambling up and
down the scrubby slopes around the Nek and Quinn’s Post, Courtney’s Post, Johnston’s Jolly with its underground tunnels
and Steele’s Post where I found the bullet-holed water bottle. On one particularly warm day I even lost my way in daylight in
the impossible scrub and sandy gullies around Hill 60 on the northern end of the Anzac front. The experience made me feel
more sympathetic to John Monash, whose Fourth Brigade units ran into trouble in similar country advancing in darkness
in August 1915. Sixty years later you could still easily walk along the remnants of the great communication trenches, up
Monash Valley towards Quinn’s Post and then along the rear of the old front line.
From the old front line back towards Anzac Cove you could find the detritus of war scattered everywhere in the low scrub—
rum jars, bully beef tins, bottles, rifle bolts, bombs, bullets, and human skulls and bones. In 1975 the ghosts of Anzac were
never far away but it was an immensely peaceful place, with its panoramic views looking out to Imbros and Samothrace and
its immaculately-kept cemeteries. The only sound you could hear was the wind in the cypress pines and the birds chattering
all day long. At that time the RSL worried that Anzac Day was steadily waning in significance in the popular mind. Just
before I left Anzac in May 1975 I wrote my impressions in my diary: ‘All the cemeteries at Anzac are lonely places—the
years roll by and very few people come. Gradually the names on the graves are becoming harder to discern and it won’t be
too long before the furious battles and the dead buried on this alien soil will be forgotten’. How wrong I was! On the 100th
anniversary of the landing on April 25, 2015, the dawn service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra drew more than
100,000 people—the largest crowd ever seen at a dawn service in Australia.
Living in London and Athens in the mid-70s I started book collecting in earnest, still with a sharp focus on the Gallipoli
campaign starting with personal memoirs and the British official histories. As a book collector with a limited budget my
initial focus was on the Gallipoli campaign, trying to track down the original unit histories and personal memoirs of the
Light Horse regiments and the infantry battalions that had fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
INTRODUCTION
In the autumn of 1975 I went to Northern France and walked across some of the old Somme battlefields where the Australians
had fought, including Pozières, Mouquet Farm and Villers-Bretonneux. My paternal grandfather, John Ward Walters, had
served in France as a young subaltern and gradually my collecting interest widened to include the AIF experience in France,
Egypt and Palestine, embracing literature and poetry, maps, photographs, ephemera, and illustrated books by war artists.
In London Maggs Bros, Francis Edwards, and the bookshops in and around Charing Cross Road were regular haunts. Even
then many First AIF battalion and Light Horse histories were very scarce but I occasionally had a lucky find. John Maggs
was particularly generous and used to let me roam the basement of his wonderful bookshop in Berkeley Square. There I
found the history of the 40th Battalion AIF presented to Sir James Edmonds, the official historian of the British Army in
the Great War, as well as a fine copy of the 7th Battalion history and a nice bound copy of Charles Duguid’s The Desert Trail
personally inscribed to a friend in Adelaide. Back at Maggs twenty years later on a rainy afternoon I climbed a ladder and
discovered the only copy I have come across for sale of Australians in Action in New Guinea—an early published account of
the occupation of German New Guinea by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force in 1914.
As a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and later with The Australian I travelled widely from the early 1980s, getting
back to London at regular intervals and making the acquaintance of a number of booksellers across the UK. Before the age
of the internet the hunt for scarce titles proved challenging. I would buy from catalogues and occasionally at auction and
visit antiquarian bookshops whenever I could. Five years living in Jakarta severely curbed my quest for AIF material. By
the time catalogues from Australia and around the globe made their way to Indonesia by post the very occasional First AIF
rarity had long gone.
Over the last 25 years I steadily added to my collection of AIF unit histories, sometimes buying at ABA auctions (notably
the Trigellis-Smith and Chirnside library sales) and other times being helped out by bookseller friends in Australia, New
Zealand and the UK. The scarcer Light Horse histories remained particularly hard to find and it took me decades to acquire
the 5th and 7th Light Horse regimental histories. In the very rare event these came up for auction I would lodge a bid and
watch as prices soared way beyond my budget. Some of the personal memoirs of AIF veterans published in the immediate
aftermath of the Great War are now particularly hard to find. They include Stalky’s Forlorn Hope by Stanley Savige—a
record of his service with Dunsterforce in Persia in 1918. The bibliographer C.E. Dornbusch recorded a planned print run
of 1000 copies of which some 70 percent of the sheets were destroyed, leaving just 300 copies that were eventually bound
and sold. W.H. Downing’s classic memoir, To the Last Ridge, is another genuine rarity. The author’s son, William Downing,
in his introduction to the 1998 edition records that the publisher, H.H. Champion, went broke at the time of publication,
leaving the author with a great many copies of the book in lieu of royalties. ‘These were later destroyed in a fire—there is
only one copy of the original edition in our family’, William Downing observed. The 1998 reprint of To the Last Ridge does
not contain the poignant introduction to the 1920 edition by Brigadier H.E. ‘Pompey’ Elliott—Jimmy Downing’s brigade
commander on the Western Front—who committed suicide in 1931.
Other scarce personal war memoirs in my collection include Reg Lushington’s A Prisoner of the Turks, illustrated with
his own ink drawings and given to his mother soon after publication. Lushington, a private in the West Australian 16th
Battalion, was one of just four Australians who became prisoners of war on the day of the landing at Anzac. The slim,
privately printed Records of an Australian Lieutenant, in memory of Lieutenant John Alexander Raws killed at Pozières in
1916, is the only copy I have seen outside institutional libraries in more than 40 years of collecting. Major Miles Beevor’s My
Landing at Gallipoli—an account of his landing at dawn at Anzac with the first wave of the 10th Battalion, privately printed
in 1930—is another extremely scarce memoir.
I have also made an effort to collect the unit histories of New Zealand infantry and mounted regiments—an essential part
of the Anzac story. So often the exploits of our cousins across the Tasman are overlooked by Australian collectors.
My travels to Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and South East Asia over the last forty years enabled me to learn more
about the remarkable work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. In April 1975 John Norris, then the CWGC
official responsible for the Gallipoli Peninsula, had taken me in his Land Rover from Cannakale on the Asian shore of the
Dardanelles to the dawn service at Anzac Cove. At Anzac I also met Steve Grady, who had fought as a teenager with the
French Resistance in WW2 and was the son of a war graves gardener. Grady worked for the CWGC and later looked after
the Commission’s cemeteries in France—his boyhood home. From talking to these two men I developed a keen interest in
the Commission’s work and how we have chosen to remember the Great War, including the regular pilgrimages to Gallipoli
and the Western Front which commenced in the 1920s. I have been lucky enough to visit some of the most far-flung CWGC
cemeteries, from Ambon in Eastern Indonesia, with its magnificent sprawling samaan trees, El Alamein and its flowering
desert eucalypts, the beautiful Jerusalem War Cemetery at the northern end of the Mount of Olives, The Farm—the loneliest
cemetery at Anzac with just seven gravestones, and, a long way further west, the serene Ramparts cemetery alongside the
INTRODUCTION
canal at Ypres in Belgium. My collection includes some of the earliest official publications by the then Imperial War Graves
Commission on the cemeteries at Anzac and accounts of pilgrimages to the Gallipoli Peninsula.
In 2010 I returned to France and lived for nearly four years in Paris—a city where I had once studied as a post-graduate
student 25 years earlier. Living in the 15th arrondissement, a stone’s throw from the Champ de Mars, enabled me to get to
know a number of the city’s marvellous array of antiquarian bookshops. Paris surely remains the richest book market in
the world with its weekly book auctions at Drouot in the 9th arrondissement and its famous weekend book market at Parc
Georges-Brassens at the bottom of the 15th. In Paris I learnt a lot more about French and British artists who spent time on
the Western Front, often as camouflage experts. Many a happy hour was spent at Drouot getting to know auction houses,
booksellers and art experts, and observing the sale of some extraordinary private libraries. One wintry afternoon, I engaged
in a spirited bidding contest for a rare set of engravings of British soldiers on the Western Front by the French artist, JeanEmile Laboureur. I was outbid by a rake-thin gentleman wearing purple trousers and a green bowler hat. We got talking
after the sale and he turned out to be Martin Stone—a legend in the book trade in London and Paris. Martin became a firm
friend and many of the rarer items I acquired relating to French artists on the Western Front came via his remarkable eye
and extraordinary sleuthing across France. In early 2011, relying on a tip-off from my old friend, Paul Burnard, I found in
the sprawling flea market at Clignancourt in the north of Paris one of the highlights of my collection—the 23 cm-high brass
statuette of a First AIF Digger. I have shown him to Great War curators at museums in Britain, France and Australia, as well
as to experts in WW1 art. The consensus is that he was cast in France—most likely in the 1920s or 1930s—but at the time of
writing his origins remain a mystery.
When the war ended on the Western Front on 11 November 1918 there were still around 95,000 Australian troops in France,
a further 55,000 in England, and 17,000 in Egypt and Palestine. Even in its depleted state the First AIF, an all-volunteer
force, was five times larger than today’s Australian Army.
The Great War left 60,000 Australian dead scattered across the Gallipoli Peninsula, the fields of France and Belgium, and
the dusty wastes of the Middle East. The war scythed through local communities in our cities and the bush and changed the
face of Australia. As C.E.W. Bean wrote long ago at the end of his official history, the Australian Imperial Force is not dead:
‘That famous army of generous men marches still down the long lane of its country’s history, with bands playing and rifles
slung, with packs on shoulders, white dust on boots, and bayonet scabbards and entrenching tools flapping on countless
thighs—as the French countryfolk and the fellaheen of Egypt knew it’.
Exactly one hundred years after the original Anzacs sailed from Egypt bound for Marseilles and the Western Front, I hope
that this catalogue will help keep alive the spirit of that extraordinary force that was the First AIF.
Patrick Walters
Canberra, March 2016
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgements
O
ne of the many pleasures of book collecting has been the bonds forged with booksellers scattered across the globe.
Over the years I have relied on the advice, assistance, and friendship of many in the antiquarian book trade and other
experts working for auction houses. Particular thanks are due to:
In Australia and New Zealand: Kristen Alexander, Peter Arnold, Leo Berkelouw, David Fax, Paul Feain, Matthew
Fishburn, Maureen and Philip Fraher, Barbara Hince, Alan Ives, Julie Keating, Louella Kerr, Josef Lebovic, Anne
McCormick, Derek McDonnell, Rod MacNeil, Mick Malone, Janet Muir, Helen Muir, Tory Page, Nicholas Pounder,
Julien Renard, Michael Sprod, Douglas Stewart, Charles Stitz, Mick Stone, Philip Thomas, Peter Tinslay, Mick Treloar,
Jonathan Wantrup
In the United Kingdom: David and Judith Cohen, Peter De Lotz, Tom Donovan, Glen Mitchell, the late John Maggs,
Chris Hollett, John Marrin, John Morten, Tony and Gil Tiffin, Brian Turner
In France: Hélène Bonafous-Murat, Jérôme and Valentine Del Moral, John Morrison, Martin Stone, Marc Philippon,
Herve and Eva Valentin
In Belgium: Pierre Coumans and In the USA: David and Cathy Lilburne
Over the decades my wife, Margaret, has been kindly tolerant of my book collecting habit, usually only stopping to inquire
whether the latest parcel was indeed related to the Great War. I thank her for her generosity of spirit. Heartfelt thanks are
also due to my brother, David Walters and his wife, Elizabeth, as well as my sister, Fiona Massy and brother-in-law Charles
Massy. Both families have looked after my collection during the many years I have lived away from Australia. I have spent a
good third of the last 40 years overseas and every time I left home I knew my precious library was in good hands.
Finally heartfelt thanks to Mick Treloar for taking on the collection and producing an outstanding catalogue. I have known
Mick for many years and he is not only a fine bookman but a superb bibliographer. This has been a happy collaboration.
Mick shares my interest in the Great War and its shattering impact on the youthful Australian Commonwealth. From Anzac
to the Hindenburg Line is a fitting testament to his skill, tenacity and dedication.
P.W.
Cataloguer’s Note
C
ontent and form—to me, both are important. In this age of digital technology, content is freely available in everincreasing quantities. Every time I access Trove, or the websites of the Australian War Memorial and the National
Archives of Australia, my gratitude is boundless. I have an insatiable curiosity, and I am the perennial student.
But I am also an antiquarian bookseller—hence researcher, bibliographer, cataloguer—and as such, the original form in which
an item first appeared is of the greater consequence. I prefer to begin at the beginning: by close inspection and careful study of
an item, particularly one I am unfamiliar with, its story gradually reveals itself. The same applies on a larger scale, to a group
of objects, and especially to a discrete collection such as the one that Patrick Walters has assembled over his adult lifetime.
Over the same period (for Patrick and I are near-contemporaries) I have handled untold numbers of books, photographs
and documents. I have slowly come to the conclusion that the body of original material relating to the First World War is
fundamentally different. The world had never before experienced such an all-encompassing cataclysm, and caught up in it
was the fledgling nation of Australia. Actions and reactions were unrehearsed; the responses spontaneous, unselfconscious,
often personal, sometimes even intimate. Ultimately, they were overwhelmingly powerful expressions of many facets of this
human tragedy, invariably produced by those who fought, or by those who were left behind to mourn the losses.
Patrick’s moving introductory essay is cast in the same mould, as indeed is his entire collection. Painstakingly, he has brought
together many items that are unique, or with unique provenance, or unrecorded, or, at the very least, rarely encountered—and
time and again, the quality of the material proved to be breathtaking. As I processed the collection, I came to appreciate what
a truly remarkable memorial he has constructed, and this is what I have endeavoured to commemorate in this printed record.
Accordingly, this catalogue is designed to be read. It has both content and form. I am responsible for the text. Thomas
Baker-Stimson has elegantly formatted and illustrated it. On this occasion, he knows I cannot thank him enough.
I dedicate this catalogue to the memory of my mother Margaret, who died on 9 March 2016.
Michael Treloar
Adelaide, 13 March 2016
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Mouquet Farm and Pozières
These must suffer their eclipse,
Who cares now if you were there
When the nations stood at grips?
Who cares now for Passchendaele
Or to hear of Poelcapelle?
Lad, your stories all are stale,
Find some newer ones to tell.
Oscar Walters, ‘The Hum’, 1931
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
On Active Service
1
Gallipoli Relic
A standard issue First AIF blue-enamelled water bottle, pierced by shrapnel or a bullet, found at Gallipoli
in 1975. Its dimensions are 205 × 140 × 60 mm; apart from some spots of surface rust where the enamel has
flaked off, it is in excellent condition.
This item speaks for itself far more eloquently than we could, and we cannot improve on the account of its discovery
by Patrick Walters:
I found the First AIF water bottle on the scrubby slope of Steele’s Post in April 1975. It aroused a lot of interest among
the Diggers who came as part of an RSL-led group for the 60th anniversary of the landing. There were a dozen Anzac
veterans who were all in their late 70s or early 80s and very sprightly. They adopted me, a lone backbacker who
had hitchhiked from Athens to the Gallipoli Peninsula, into the travelling party which included the NSW Governor,
Sir Roden Cutler VC, and Lady Cutler. One of the leaders of the pilgrimage, Clive Newman, had been a 19 year-old
trooper in my great-uncle Carew Reynell’s regiment, the 9th Light Horse. In later life he became the Auditor-General
of the Commonwealth. We became good friends, and I used to go and call on him after I moved to Canberra as a
journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1980. Another member of the 1975 tour party was a WW2 veteran, a
lovely chap named Gerry Ferguson, who fought at El Alamein. I gave him the water bottle as a souvenir of Anzac and
he promised that it would be returned to me upon his death. His daughters very kindly ensured that his promise was
kept and the water bottle came back into my possession in the late 1990s.
[$800-1600]
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4th Australian Divisional Artillery
4th Australian Divisional Artillery [cover title of a post-Armistice souvenir]
Anthée, Belgium, [4th ADA, early 1919]. Octavo (173 × 127 mm), [8] pages, fully illustrated (partially in colour).
A most attractive souvenir booklet printed on good quality card stock, bound with ribbons in the 4th ADA colours of
red and blue; ribbons a little frayed with minor loss, otherwise a fine copy, and still in the original envelope in which
it was posted (from Battersea on 15 April 1919, to a Mrs P. Cheal in Deal, Kent).
Loosely inserted is an original gelatin silver postcard-format group photograph of a small number of officers and
men, and two women in uniform. ‘Carefully prepared, but inadequately at best, this Card is issued on the eve of our
separation as a little memento of our association together, of strenuous effort and sterling friends. Memory will fade
but friendship endure ...’. This beautiful memento was produced for distribution among members of the 10th Australian
Field Artillery Brigade, 11th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, 4th Australian Divisional Medium Trench Mortars, and
4th Australian Divisional Ammunition Column. It is primarily a picture-book, produced from original artwork by
H.H. Chappel (in the main); another artist credited is C.W. Bostock, while three illustrations are initialled in pencil
‘WR’. The front cover has a full colour head-and-shoulders portrait of a smiling but weary soldier. The inside front
cover lists the relevant brigades and batteries within a colour pictorial frame. Each of the next four pages is devoted
to either a year of the war—1916, 1917, 1918—or Armistice, with vignette illustrations and printed battle honours. The
inside rear cover tells the story of the purpose of the card (again, within a colour pictorial framework). The outside
rear cover lists ‘Our “Exports” during last year of the war’, and provides some numbers to contemplate: Periods in
Action (253 days); Total Ammunition Fired (522,133 rounds); Total Weight of Projectiles Fired (5257 tons 13 cwts 0 qrs
3 lbs). [$200-300]
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4th Battalion AIF
A souvenir matchbox holder produced for the 4th Battalion in 1917
The silver-plate matchbox holder (60 × 40 × 20 mm) is embossed with the ACMF Rising Sun badge on one main
panel, and the insignia and battle honours of the 4th Battalion AIF on the other (‘August 17, 1914 – 1917. Gallipoli—
Landing, Lone Pine, Evacuation. France—Pozières, Mouquet Farm, Le Barque, Demicourt-Boursies, Bullecourt’); in
very fine condition.
The story of the manufacture of these matchbox holders is told in ‘White over Green’. The 2/4th Battalion and Reference
to the 4th Battalion, published in 1963. Lieutenant-General Iven Mackay, who commanded the original 4th Battalion
from 1916 to 1918, wrote in his foreword: ‘The nearest to the history of the 4th Battalion was the recording of our battle
honours on a white metal match box during World War 1’. He recalled that the boxes were made in Birmingham in
mid-1917, and paid for out of canteen profits; each member of the battalion was given one. He relates an amusing
anecdote: ‘Early in 1918 the 4th Battalion was holding an outpost line near Bapaume by a series of section posts.
Unexpectedly one foggy morning the Germans put down a sharp barrage, attacked our positions, and captured
two or three of these posts. Another company of the 4th Battalion at once counter-attacked, captured the Germans
and released the prisoners. On searching the newly captured Germans, each one was found to have in his pocket
a purloined 4th Battalion match-box, which was quickly seized and returned to its owner!’. A cache of them was
discovered in Birmingham in the early 2000s, from which the present example is thought to derive. [$200-300]
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5th Australian Auxiliary Hospital
Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Welwyn, Herts
London, W.H. Smith and Son (printed at the Arden Press), 1917. Quarto, [24] pages (the first and last two blank), with
a title page (verso blank) and 18 captioned plates.
Ribbon-bound overlapping card covers; ribbon a little frayed, covers foxed; a very good copy (internally fine).
A rare pictorial souvenir; Trove records only the Australian War Memorial copy. The 5th Australian Auxiliary Hospital
was based at Digswell House, owned by the Honorable Mrs Acland, who opened her house to convalescent officers.
Loosely inserted is a leaflet (octavo, [4] pages) issued by the Church of St John the Evangelist, Digswell, on 9 October
1921. It contains the Order of Service for the ‘Unveiling and Dedication of a Tablet placed in the Digswell Church by
their Comrades and Friends to the Memory of the 73 Officers of the Australian Imperial Force who left the Auxiliary
Hospitals at Digswell and were afterwards killed in the Great War’. The ceremony was performed by Major-General
Sir Harold Walker, former Commander of the 1st Division AIF. [2 items]. [$150-200]
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6th Field Artillery Brigade. WIGHTMAN, Staff Sergeant Peter Rigby
18th Battery Field Artillery, 6th Army Field Artillery Bde. Honor Roll. Officers, NCOs & Men. Second Years [sic]
Record of First South Australian Battery on Active Service from October 18th, 1916 – October 17th, 1917.... Drawn
& designed by P.R. Wightman Sgt, 1st ANZAC Topo Sec, Belgium, 1917
London, Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck and Sons, [1917]. A large poster (visible dimensions 545 ×
770 mm), printed lithographically in four colours.
The poster is behind glass, with a wide wood-grained matt in the original heavy carved wooden frame (external
dimensions 870 × 1100 mm); both the poster and frame are in fine condition, making this a superb display piece.
Despite its title, the greater part of this attractive poster is given over to a nominal roll of the men who served with the
18th Battery, attractively laid out within six cartouches in the shape of large-calibre shells. The names of those who have
died, been wounded, or decorated are listed above; Battle Honours are listed on the left and right—and all of them are
presented in a wonderful array of scrolls and banners, some against a background of flowering branchlets. [$600-800]
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18th Battery Field Artillery, 6th Army Field Artillery Brigade. Honor Roll. Third Year’s Record of First South
Australian 18 Pr. Battery on Active Service, from October 18th, 1917 to October 17th, 1918.... Drawn & designed
by S.Sgt. P.R. Wightman
London, Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1918]. A large poster (external dimensions 755 ×
560 mm), printed lithographically in four colours; in superb original condition.
Despite its title, the greater part of this fine display piece is given over to a nominal roll of the men who served with the
18th Battery, attractively laid out within five cartouches in the shape of large-calibre shells. The officers are listed above;
the killed and wounded are listed below; Battle Honours and significant individual awards are listed on the left and
right—and all of them in a wonderful array of scrolls and banners, some of them against a background of flowering
gum branchlets. [$400-600]
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18th Battery, 6th Army Bde, AIF. Honor Roll. Totals for Period 1915-1919.... [and incorporating the] Fourth Year’s
Record of First South Australian 18 Pr. Battery on Active Service, from 18th October 1918 to 24 February 1919....
Designed by S.Sgt. Wightman, M.S.M.
London, Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1919. A large poster (external dimensions 765 ×
560 mm), printed lithographically in four colours; in superb original condition.
Despite its title, the greater part of this fine display piece is given to a nominal roll of the men who served with the 18th
Battery, attractively laid out within four cartouches in the shape of large-calibre shells. The officers are listed above; the
Honor Roll, numbers of wounded, and breakdown of decorations awarded are listed below; statistics ranging from
‘Casualties to Horses’ to ‘Total Number of Shell Fired’ and ‘Number of Original Persons in Battery on Demobilisation’
are listed on the left and right—and all of them in a variety of decorative panels contributing harmoniously to the
overall design. [$400-600]
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6th Training Battalion AIF
A mammoth panoramic group portrait captioned in the image 6th Training Battalion, A.I.F. Fovant, March
1918
An original vintage gelatin silver photograph (visible image size 165 × 1670 mm), captioned in white ink on the image,
with the photographer’s credit and reference number in the bottom right-hand corner (Panora Limited, #2247).
The photograph has some light surface cracks as a result of being rolled before framing, but overall it is in excellent
condition, recently handsomely framed and glazed in a period style (external dimensions an impressive 255 × 1750
mm). Fovant was the site of a major AIF training camp on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, where intensive work was
done to prepare all of the different branches for the war in France and Belgium. This photograph contains some five
hundred or more men, and the group portrait is made more imposing still by the inclusion of the bandsmen and their
instruments, at ease in the foreground. Most of these men would have seen action soon afterwards on the Western
Front, halting the German advance in March and April, and then taking part in the great August offensive.
[$800-1200]
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11th Australian Field Ambulance
Souvenir. Being an Unofficial Résumé of the History of the 11th Australian Field Ambulance. [Souvenir. 11th Fld
Amb. France, 1916 to 1918 (cover title)]
[Adelaide], 11th Australian Field Ambulance, 1919. Quarto, 32 pages with 12 illustrations (from photographs).
Cord-bound overlapping colour pictorial wrappers very lightly creased and marked; basically a fine copy. Loosely
inserted is a one-page Honor Roll. Dornbusch 252; Fielding and O’Neill, page 234; Trigellis-Smith 329. [$600-800]
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10 22nd Battalion Machine Gun Section
An original vintage gelatin silver photograph (visible image size 207 × 278 mm) taken at the Imperial
School of Instruction at Zeitoun, a suburb of Cairo, most likely in January or February 1916
‘Besides the ordinary courses for officers and non-commissioned officers, [the ISI] holds machine-gun, Lewis gun,
signal and telephone, artillery, Stokes gun, and grenadier classes. Between 7th January and 31st May, 1,166 officers and
5,512 other ranks attended and passed in the various classes’ (from Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches—First Despatch,
1 June 1916). The 22nd Battalion was first deployed to Gallipoli in September 1915 and remained in the lines until the
evacuation. By March 1916 it had embarked for France, suggesting the likely date for this unusual and arresting
photograph. The extensive annotations on the verso, which include the identity of all of the Australians in the image,
add immensely to its intrinsic worth.
[$500-800]
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23rd Battalion
23rd. The Voice of the Battalion. Volume 1, Number 16 (1 June 1918); Number 19 (15 July 1918); Number 20 (1
August 1918); and Volume 2, Number 1 (15 October 1918—the first Annual)
[Beaurevoir, 23rd Battalion], 1918. Small quarto, respectively 12, 10, 10, and 18 pages (plus the covers on the last one)
with illustrations (a few in colour); in fine condition.
The first three copies were ‘Printed and Published’ by Corporal H.H. Ford ‘in the Field’ or ‘on the French Battlefields’;
the Annual was ‘Printed on the French Battlefront’ by Ford and Privates J.M. Harkins and L. Milward. The Annual in
particular is a fine piece of printing, whether done ‘in the Field’ or not. It is loosely inserted in a two-colour pictorial
card cover, and comes complete with the unnumbered leaf [9-10], the ‘Supplement to The Voice of the Battalion’, a
calendar for 1919, printed in brown ink with a green and gold sprig of flowering wattle at the head. Not least, there
is frank discussion of some of the hardships of military service in France. Trove records that it came out either
fortnightly or monthly from Number 1 (September 1917) to Volume 2, Number 11 (April 1919). Not in Dornbusch; not
in Fielding and O’Neill. [$500-700]
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AIF Printing Section. A suite of six different ‘Compliments of the
Season ... New Year, 1919’ cards, all printed ‘In the Field, France’
Each item comprises a decorative outer card cover printed in blue ink as
above on the front panel, with space for the details of the recipient and
the sender; loosely inserted is a colour plate, with each one different in
these examples. The cards come in two different sizes: 160 × 220 mm
(hinged on the left), and 165 × 190 mm (hinged at the top). Apart from
minimal toning to the cards, they are in uniformly fine condition, clearly
uncirculated, and unquestionably rare.
The colour plates reproduce vivid scenes of life in France during the
war, after originals by 2837 Lance-Corporal James Somerset Butler (his real surname was Carrick, and he signed
his paintings ‘Pip’). When he enlisted in Perth in July 1915, he gave his occupation as artist. On active service on the
Western Front, he ‘spent his days as a despatch driver where he could closely observe the devastation of the landscape
with derelict tanks and shell holes’, as noted by the Australian War Memorial in relation to one of his original oil
paintings. The six examples of his work here are captioned ‘Machine Gunners in Action’; ‘Motor Lorries Towing
French Guns’; ‘Le Poilu’; ‘Somewhere in France’; ‘Christmas Shopping’ (an Anzac and a French poilu festooned with
captured German helmets); and ‘Australian Heavy Artillery’. All six have the following printed in the bottom margin:
‘From a painting in the Field by 2/Cpl. Butler (“Pip”). Reproduced in the Field by the AIF Printing Section’. [$300-400]
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Amiens. Address delivered on 4th November, 1918, by Monseigneur
the Bishop of Amiens in the Church of Long (Somme) in Memory of
Australian Officers, NCOs and Men fallen on the Battlefield [drop title]
[Amiens, No Publisher], 1918. Quarto, a single sheet with processed typescript
on both sides (with ‘118/391’ printed at the head of the first page).
Creased where folded, with minimal conservation to a few tiny edge tears; an
excellent copy of a very rare item.
A contemporary printing of an important speech given by the Bishop of
Amiens, André du Bois de la Villerabel, a week before the Armistice. Amiens
had been one of the main objectives of the German drive in March 1918, and
was, in August, the scene of the opening phase of the Hundred Days Offensive.
This copy of the speech was souvenired by one of the Australian troops present.
A note written in pencil at the head of the sheet is self-explanatory: ‘Mum.
Was lucky enough to lay hands on this copy. Think it very fine. So forward it
on to you. So you can see what the French think of the Aussies’. The Bishop
was certainly fulsome in his praise, describing how ‘later, when Victory at last
began to smile upon our arms, the Australian army distinguished itself by the audacity of its attacks, by its utter
disregard of death, by its doggedness, and by the rapidity of its advances.... It takes blood to cement the foundation of
a country, and you could not refuse it in the world war, to the cause of Christianity. You have indeed lavished it with
a saintly generosity and in so doing have written a glorious page in the history of Australia’. [$200-300]
14 Anzac Sports Programme
Australian and New Zealand Sports Meeting to be held at Moascar. December 26th 1918. Programme of
Mounted Events [drop-title]
[Cairo?, The Organisers], December 1918 (the date 19 November 1918 has been overprinted). Small octavo, 8 pages.
Drop-title pamphlet a little creased where folded in half, with the top half of the first page a little marked and
discoloured; originally saddle-stapled, the staple is missing, leaving a slight rust-stain; trifling signs of handling; a
very good copy.
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Clearly a rarity: the detailed programme for a full day of events at Moascar, the vast depot-base and training centre
in Egypt. In March 1919, the offical war artist George Lambert described the Moascar camp as ‘Miles and miles of
tents and desert, thousands of sweating, sun-bronzed men and beautiful horses’ (Australian War Memorial website:
ART02819). Perhaps not surprisingly, the first half of the programme is devoted to mounted events, commencing with
‘Wrestling on Horse Back. Teams of 6. Horses to be ridden bare back. Dress: breeches and socks’. [$100-200]
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Australian Electrical Mechanical Mining and Boring Company
A very large photograph, captioned on the matt: ‘Group of the Australian Electrical Mechanical Mining
and Boring Company. Taken in Flanders in June 1917’
Visible image size 400 × 550 mm, recently replaced in its original deeply-recessed glazed wooden frame with gilt fillet,
complete with the original captioned matt (external dimensions 660 × 800 mm).
The sepia-toned original vintage gelatin silver photograph is in fine condition; the white ink caption is a little
smudged, but still quite legible; the frame is a little rubbed at the extremities and chipped near one corner; overall,
it is a very impressive piece. Given the date there is little doubt that this was taken in the Messines sector, where the
engineers had their most famous success with the series of enormous mines detonated before the attack on 7 June
1917. The original caption also notes that ‘this group is only 100 strong and yet has been awarded any number of
gallantry medals including a DSO, 3 DCMs, 2 MCs and 7 MMs’. The DSO was awarded to the Commanding Officer,
Major Richard Victor Morse, on 3 June 1917; he is seated in the centre of the front row. A copy of a letter from Morse
to the Controller of Mines, Second Army, dated 12 June 1917, is in the Australian War Memorial collection. The final
paragraph may help put this particular image in its true context: ‘I also wish to draw your special attention to the
very good work of the N.C.O.’s and men ... These men have for the past 18 months carried out their duties under very
extreme conditions, and in keeping the supply of power for the front line work, constantly repairing cables under
heavy shell fire, and have shown faithfulness to their duty by working weeks in the line without taking relief, and
unduly long hours on duty, in the many instances of Engine room and line troubles’. [$1200-1600]
16 Australian Imperial Force. Staff Regimental and Gradation Lists of Officers. 1st Australian Division; 1st, 2nd,
and 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigades; 4th Infantry Brigade; L. of C. Units and Reinforcements. Revised to 6th
December 1914
Melbourne, Alfred J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914. Octavo, 132 pages.
Flush-cut limp cloth with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; staples slighty rusty; essentially a fine
copy. The AIF commanders and officer corps in 1914; the first complete list after they sailed for Egypt in November
1914. Signed in pencil on the front cover and title page ‘Lieut. G.A. Ferguson’ (see pages 55 and 98, where he appears
as Subaltern to the 6th Light Horse Regiment). Mentioned in dispatches at Gallipoli, he survived the war with the rank
of Major. Dornbusch (Official Publications 22-3); Fielding and O’Neill, page 206.
[$200-300]
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Australian Light Horse
An album of photographs with the hand-written title ‘With the Australian Rough-Riders in Egypt. 191516-17-18’
A small cloth-bound album (210 × 160 mm, with ‘Photographs’ in gilt on the front cover); cloth lightly flecked
and mottled, with light wear to the extremities; in excellent condition. The title is written in white ink on the front
pastedown, along with an illustration of a scarab. There are 48 photographs (visible image size 58 × 102 mm or the
reverse) loosely inserted two-to-a-page behind window mounts (with printed black borders) on 12 thick doublesided leaves with detailed captions in neat calligraphy in white ink (some are also captioned in the negative). The
photographs are in uniformly fine condition.
The horsemen are identified in thirty-five instances: Billy Griffin, Dick Davis, Dick Bell, Corporal Kinnon, Austin
Smith, ‘Tiger’ Richards, Sergeant Jack Dempsey, Sergeant Jack Gillis, Bob Adams ... The events are occasionally
identified as well: ‘Riding at Maadi in 1915’; ‘An Exhibition before [Major-General V.B.] Fane at Moascar’; ‘An
Exhibition at the A.R.D. Sports in the Bullring at Heliopolis’; and ‘At an exhibition before the High Commissioner
... on the Racecourse, Heliopolis’. The Australian War Memorial has a similar album (its title ends with ‘Egypt and
Palestine. 1915-16-17-18-19’), which supports our view that these albums were produced for sale by an entrepreneur
in the ranks. The fact that they may not be unique in no way diminishes their genuine desirability (or indeed, their
rarity). [$800-1200]
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The Australian Military Journal. Edited by the
General Staff (Training Branch), Headquarters,
Australian Military Forces, Melbourne [cover
title]. Volume 6, Number 1, January 1915 to Volume
7, Number 1, January 1916 [the last five numbers
published]
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1915 and 1916.
Quarto, five numbers, 860 pages (the first four
numbers, continuously paginated) with a few
illustrations plus some unnumbered advertisements
and plates (some folding) in each number of Volume
6, and 252, [4] (publisher’s advertisements) pages with
illustrations (from photographs) and folding plans in
Volume 7, Number 1.
Original colour-pictorial wrappers; trifling signs of
use and age (including a few minor repairs); basically
in excellent condition.
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An extremely rare run of the last five numbers of this important quarterly journal before it ceased publication. Without
a doubt, they are the most interesting of the lot, as they cover the first fifteen months of action by the AIF, significantly
including almost the entire Gallipoli campaign. These journals, despite their signal importance to early Australian
military history, have proved to be very rare on the market; indeed, in his forty years of assiduous collecting, Patrick
Walters has seen no other equivalent run for sale. The first issue includes surprisingly detailed accounts of the first
AIF convoy to Egypt, as well as notes on the New Guinea campaign. The second number, April 1915, continues to
follow life in Egypt (including two magnificent very large folding panoramas, each approximately 175 × 900 mm
image size, showing different views of the ‘1st Australian Division, Australian Imperial Force, Egypt, 1914-15’); most of
those on the six-page Roll of Honour died at sea, either in the loss of HMA Submarine AE1, on board HMAS Sydney,
or on troopships on the voyage from Australia. The third number, July 1915, has strong Gallipoli content, including
the first of the reports by Charles Bean on ‘Operations at the Dardanelles’, and 35 closely-printed pages of casualties
sustained therein. The fourth and largest number, October 1916, includes more than 100 pages on the Dardanelles
(chiefly derived from letters from Bean); the casualty lists have blown out to 73 pages. The final number takes the
campaign up until mid-October, and starts to include more serious notice of the first arrivals in France; the Roll of
Honour is only slightly less depressing at 46 pages. Needless to say, there is much, much else in these 1100 or more
pages for the military historian. Dornbusch 168 (with the informative note: ‘Quarterly. April 1911 to April 1914 have
title The Commonwealth Military Journal. Ceased publication with VII 1 [January 1916]’) and 351 (with details of the
issues of the journal containing the full series of Bean’s cable messages and letters); Fielding and O’Neill, page 195 (not
noting the change of title). [$1200-2000]
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BARRETT, Charles and Frank REID (editors)
The Kia Ora Coo-ee. The Official Magazine of the Australian and New Zealand Forces in Egypt, Palestine,
Salonica & Mesopotamia. First Series, Number 1, March 15th, 1918 to Number 4, June 15th, 1918. [Together with]
Second Series, Number 1, July 15th, 1918 to Number 6, December 15th, 1918 [all published]
Cairo, Kia Ora Coo-ee Magazine, 1918. Quarto, ten issues bound in one volume, each issue 20 pages (the first one has 16
pages, the last one 24 pages) with many hundreds of illustrations (‘Original drawings, Official and other photographs’)
plus advertisements on the wrappers; the last issue also contains a 4-page pictorial Christmas Supplement (between
pages 12 and 13).
Contemporary cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover (with the binder’s ticket of E.S. Wigg and Son, Adelaide on
the rear pastedown), with all ten issues retaining their pictorial wrappers; minor signs of use and handling, confined
mainly to the wrappers (and probably done in the mail); top corner piece torn from a rear cover (for the postage
stamp); a few old tape repairs to some covers; recent expert repairs to tears to a few leaves; some indifferent-quality
paper is tanned and a little brittle; overall in excellent condition, now housed in a custom-made clamshell box.
The ownership signature of 1589 William Pascoe McIntosh (at this stage with the 9th Light Horse) appears on most
numbers, as does his forwarding address to his sister Pam at The Manse in Naracoorte. He has pencilled in annotations
to some numbers; most of them are mundane, but there is a fifty-word comment in the August issue about being
shelled: ‘The flash could be seen and count 60 to 70 then the shell would whistle past and perhaps burst. There were
more than half Duds’. The first number was edited by Trooper Frank Reid (his real name was Alexander Vindex
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Vennard); from the second number, Lance-Corporal Charles Barrett joined him until Series 2, Number 2 (when both
were sergeants); thereafter, Sergeant Barrett was on his own. The art editor throughout was Warrant Officer David
Barker, co-editor of The Anzac Book (and whose artwork illustrated its front cover). Well-known contributors to this
high-quality magazine include Barrett, Reid (writing as ‘Bill Bowyang’ as well), Henry Gullett, and Major A.B. (Banjo)
Paterson. Dornbusch 258; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$1000-1500]
20 BEAN, Charles Edwin Woodrow (editor)
The Anzac Book. Written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac
London, Cassell and Company, 1916 [first impression, with the errors on pages 5 and 104]. Quarto, xvi, 170 pages with
numerous illustrations and plates plus 11 colour plates and a folding map; the colour plate by David Barker mounted
on the front cover of the publisher’s original bindings in both cloth and wrappers is here mounted on plain paper and
bound in between the frontispiece and title page.
A copy of the true first edition, the one issued to the troops themselves, originally in wrappers, but now bound
without the wrappers in early gilt-lettered half calf and ribbed cloth, all edges speckled red; leather lightly rubbed at
the extremities, with small light tidemarks to the spine; cloth lightly flecked; leading margin of the frontispiece neatly
reinforced with paper; scattered foxing; in excellent condition, now housed in a custom-made clamshell box.
This is a unique copy of great moment. Hand-drawn in coloured inks on the blank recto of the frontispiece is a
decorative banner, ‘22nd Battalion AIF, Johnstons Jolly, Anzac, 1915’, with the signatures of 31 officers and NCOs of the
battalion in ruled spaces beneath. The list is headed by the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Smith.
The verso of the plate facing page 164 carries the signatures of a further 103 NCOs and enlisted men in three columns.
Listed in two columns under the decorative banner are the battalion’s locations since its arrival (‘Egypt, Cairo;
Gallipoli, Anzac; Lemnos, Mudros; Sinai, Tel-el-Kebir; Suez Canal, Isma[i]lia; France, Marseilles’), suggesting that the
signatures were collected between May and July 1916 (when the battalion was redeployed for the Battle of Pozières),
perhaps at the headquarters of the battalion at Fleurbaix in the Pas de Calais. Approximately five millimetres has been
trimmed from the text block when the book was rebound, resulting in the loss of the lower part of one signature on
the frontispiece. To avoid similar loss, the plate facing page 164 has been cut for a short distance along the gutter to
enable the bottom margin to be folded back clear of the bottom edge. The 22nd Battalion served at an exposed forward
position opposite Johnston’s Jolly, where the battalion was stationed between 6 September and 19 December 1915.
The curious name originated on 25 April 1915, when the 2nd Australian Division’s Artillery, commanded by BrigadierGeneral George Johnston, fired on a Turkish battery on the next ridge ‘to jolly up the Turks’. In their ten weeks there,
the 22nd sustained 616 casualties, including 60 killed. The 22nd was back in action in France soon after the book was
signed. Casualty lists indicate that Sergeant Robert Stone was killed in action at Pozières on 27 July 1916; he was the
first of the signatories to lose his life. Many others soon followed. Eleven officers, including a few who had fought at
Gallipoli, received their commissions at Pozières on 5 August; within 48 hours, six were killed and three wounded.
The Record of Service of each man has been recently researched to establish that he had indeed served on Gallipoli.
The full list of names, ranks and service numbers is attached to the online version of the catalogue, together with the
possible provenance of this extraordinary compilation. Dornbusch 237; Fielding and O’Neill, page 241. [$3000-4000]
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BEAN, Charles Edwin Woodrow (editor)
London, Cassell and Company, 1916 [first impression, with the errors on pages 5 and 104]. Quarto, xvi, 170 pages with
numerous illustrations and plates plus 11 colour plates and a folding map.
Contemporary red cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover, above the mounted David Barker colour plate from the
original wrappers (not retained); cloth lightly worn at the corners, sunned and marked on the spine, with a few small
light water-stains to the rear cover; paper a little tanned and occasionally foxed; minor restoration to the leading
margin of eight consecutive leaves; basically a very good copy.
A partially erased ownership inscription on the front pastedown is dated ‘Perth 1916’. This copy contains the incorrect
date (‘April 15, 1915’) in the caption to the plate facing page 4, and the misappropriation by Trooper J. Wareham of ‘The
Trojan War, 1915’, a poem by Arthur Adams, former editor of the ‘Red Page’ in The Bulletin. The Anzac Book, overseen
by Bean, is one of the most significant literary achievements of the war. The first paragraph of his ‘Editor’s Note’ makes
it easy to understand why: ‘This book of Anzac was produced in the lines at Anzac on Gallipoli in the closing weeks
of 1915. Practically every word in it was written and every line drawn beneath the shelter of a waterproof sheet or of a
roof of sandbags—either in the trenches or, at most, well within the range of the oldest Turkish rifle, and under daily
visitations from the smallest Turkish field-piece. Day and night, during the whole process of its composition, the
crack of the Mauser bullets overhead never ceased. At least one good soldier that we knew of, who was preparing a
contribution for these pages, met his death while the work was still unfinished’. Dornbusch 237; Fielding and O’Neill,
page 241. [$150-200]
London, Cassell and Company, 1916 [second impression, second state, with both errors corrected]. Quarto, xvi, 170
pages with numerous illustrations and plates plus 11 colour plates and a folding map.
Blue cloth (lettered in gilt on the spine and in blue on the front cover) with the large colour plate by David Barker
mounted on the front; endpapers and first and last pages offset; paper tanned as ever; essentially a fine copy with the
slightly chipped and creased dustwrapper (with the oval cut-out in the front panel displaying a vignette of the colour
plate on the front cover).
This copy has the correct date (‘April 25, 1915’) in the caption to the plate opposite page 4, and attributes the poem
‘The Trojan War, 1915’ to its rightful author, Arthur Adams. The Anzac Book, overseen by Bean, is one of the most
significant literary achievements of the war. The first paragraph of his ‘Editor’s Note’ makes it easy to understand why:
‘This book of Anzac was produced in the lines at Anzac on Gallipoli in the closing weeks of 1915. Practically every
word in it was written and every line drawn beneath the shelter of a waterproof sheet or of a roof of sandbags—either
in the trenches or, at most, well within the range of the oldest Turkish rifle, and under daily visitations from the
smallest Turkish field-piece. Day and night, during the whole process of its composition, the crack of the Mauser
bullets overhead never ceased. At least one good soldier that we knew of, who was preparing a contribution for these
pages, met his death while the work was still unfinished’. Dornbusch 237; Fielding and O’Neill, page 241. [$200-300]
London, Cassell and Company, 1916 [second impression, second state, with both errors corrected]. Quarto, xvi, 170
pages with numerous illustrations and plates plus 11 colour plates and a folding map.
Blue cloth (lettered in gilt on the spine and in blue on the front cover) with the large colour plate by David Barker
mounted on the front; cloth a little bumped and worn; acidic paper tanned and brittle, with the leading margins
of the first few leaves a little chipped, and with other minor imperfections elsewhere; front inner hinge expertly
consolidated; a decent copy, and although well-read, it is also very well-provenanced.
This copy has the correct date (‘April 25, 1915’) in the caption to the plate opposite page 4, and attributes the poem
‘The Trojan War, 1915’ to its rightful author, Arthur Adams. The Anzac Book, overseen by Bean, is one of the most
significant literary achievements of the war. The first paragraph of his ‘Editor’s Note’ makes it easy to understand why:
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‘This book of Anzac was produced in the lines at Anzac on Gallipoli in the closing weeks of 1915. Practically every
word in it was written and every line drawn beneath the shelter of a waterproof sheet or of a roof of sandbags—either
in the trenches or, at most, well within the range of the oldest Turkish rifle, and under daily visitations from the
smallest Turkish field-piece. Day and night, during the whole process of its composition, the crack of the Mauser
bullets overhead never ceased. At least one good soldier that we knew of, who was preparing a contribution for these
pages, met his death while the work was still unfinished’. More importantly, this copy was once a prized possession
of 75164 Lance-Corporal W.T. James, an (old) British soldier seconded to the 1st Anzac Corps Signal Company as a
signaller. He has inserted in it a number of interesting mementoes, and made some pertinent annotations. There are
several wartime photographs: ‘The “Y” Company Signal School, Staff. Tully-sur-Somme, 1918’ (ten men and a dog,
surrounded by equipment); ‘2nd ANZAC Signal School Instructors. France 1917’ (with all men identified); and two
small portraits of him (‘Ismailia, Egypt 1916’, and ‘The Finale!! 1919’). Tipped in is an illustration from a contemporary
magazine showing ‘A Ruined Street in Ypres, Belgium’; James has identified in it ‘Our Signal Office’. He makes the
same comment on the plate of Anzac Cove opposite page 81 in the book, and indicates with his pen that ‘my dug
out about here’. However, the most significant inclusion is a letter to him from General Sir William Birdwood (small
octavo, 4 pages, on Peterhouse, Cambridge letterhead [where Birdwood was Master], 11 March 1932). It was written
in reply to a recent letter from James: Birdwood is effusive in his thanks for the letter, and continues with ‘To think
that after all these 17 years that have passed you should remember me so kindly.... Those were great days we went
through together—days which I know we can none of us ever forget & when it meant so much to know that one had
real men as comrades’. Birdwood laments a recent accident in which he was knocked to the ground heavily, but he
was glad to be well enough to present the inter-varsity boxing medals, ‘and to advise the young men to continue to
keep themselves fit, so that they might always be able to “Box-on” through life for all that is worth fighting for’. In
November 1914 Sir William Birdwood (1865-1951) was appointed commander of the Australian and New Zealand
Army Corps, and was in command of the landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915. A month later, following the
death of the divisional commander General Bridges on 18 May 1915, ‘Birdwood temporarily took command of the
Australian Imperial Force, but was not formally appointed until 14 September 1916. He had suggested the move
and, while admitting his ambition, it must be conceded that, from the standpoint of fairness and military efficiency,
this decision was crucial to the future of the AIF which in 1915 had expanded to two divisions and included troops
under New Zealand command’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). Later, on the Western Front, he commanded the
Australian Corps, before assuming command of the entire British Fifth Army in May 1918. Birdwood, in his memoir
published in 1941, considered his role in the Gallipoli campaign the most significant phase in a long and distinguished
career. He acknowledged this on his elevation to the peerage in 1938, when he took the title Birdwood of Anzac.
Dornbusch 237; Fielding and O’Neill, page 241. [$500-800]
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24 BURNELL, Frederick Spencer (attributed to)
A large-format original vintage gelatin silver photograph
(visible image size 300 × 175 mm) of Colonel William Holmes
addressing the troops on HMAS Berrima
Apart from some light foxing in the plain upper portion, the
photograph is in excellent condition, behind glass in its original
wooden frame, with the window mount recently renewed. William
Holmes (1862-1917) was wounded on active service in the Boer
War, but for many years before and after, he was very active as a
citizen soldier. In his voluntary military capacity, he was ‘colonel
commanding the 6th Infantry Brigade from August 1912.... When
war was declared in 1914 he was chosen to command the Australian
Naval and Military Expeditionary Force.... consisting of 500 Royal
Australian Naval reservists and a battalion of infantry and ancillary
troops ... specially raised in the first week of the war. A volunteer
force, it was recruited, equipped, trained and embarked within ten
days to leave on HMAS Berrima on 19 August for a destination
which was not revealed to Holmes until the convoy was off the
Queensland coast.... After capturing Rabaul, German New Guinea,
on 12 September 1914 Holmes accepted the governor’s surrender’ of
nearly all German possessions in the Pacific (Australian Dictionary
of Biography). Holmes later served at Gallipoli, Pozières, Flers,
Bullecourt, and Messines. By this time he was a ‘major general and
commander of the 4th Division ... until he was mortally wounded by
a chance shell on 2 July while escorting the premier of New South
Wales, W.A. Holman, to survey the Messines battlefield’. We attribute
the photograph to Frederick Spencer Burnell, ‘Special Commissioner
to the Sydney Morning Herald with the Expedition’, who published
two accounts of the engagement.
[$500-800]
25 CAMPBELL, W.H. and A.G. SANDS (photographers)
The Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. Assemblage at and Departure from Albany [cover title]
Albany, W.F. Forster & Co., Proprietors Albany Advertiser, 1915 [but actually 1919]. Large oblong quarto, [24] pages,
comprising the pictorial title page, two pages of informative text (the third and fifth pages), and 21 pages of illustrations
(from photographs), 15 pages contain 22 illustrations mainly of the troops; 6 pages contain 22 illustrations of ships,
including ‘HMAS Sydney leaving Albany on 1st November, sixteen days before she caught the Emden’.
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First and last pages a little marked and creased; minimal expert conservation (including replacement of the rusty
staples with archival thread); a very good copy, as found (but see footnote).
The item was first advertised for sale in the Albany Advertiser on Saturday 13 December 1919, under the following
headlines: ‘Suppressed during Currency of War—Only Now Released! The Greatest Event in Albany’s History!’.
Recent inspection of the Ferguson copy in the National Library of Australia confirms some suspicions, not least
that copies exist with colour pictorial wrappers and a large folding leaf of plates tipped in on the inside rear cover
(this plate leaf, printed recto only, reproduces the two well-known panoramas). Printed on the inside front cover is
a lengthy and informative note regarding the suppression of the book. It states in part: ‘The matter contained in the
accompanying Publication was prepared and placed in the hands of the printer early in 1915. When all but complete a
copy was submitted to the Censor, who totally forbade its issue. So it is that the work has taken five years to reach the
public. It is obvious that any attempt to revise the contents from the point of view of today would have altered their
character entirely.... In these circumstances it has been decided to issue the publication as originally designed’. Given
that this cover note was clearly not written until after the war, a case could be made that the copies that were ‘all but
complete’ in early 1915 were in fact not yet bound, and that the present copy is one of these unbound originals, rather
than a defective later issue. Be that as it may, any copy, in any condition, is very rare. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding
and O’Neill. [$400-600]
26 Christmas Card
Egypt 1914. Gallipoli 1915. Sinai 1916. Palestine. Xmas 1917
[Palestine, Australian Commonwealth Military Forces], 1917.
A two-colour pictorial card (127 × 90 mm, on printed patterned stock) with a
tipped-in pictorial centrefold featuring a sketch of a Light Horseman by David
Barker (1917), accompanying the eight-line verse, ‘Coo-ee’, the last quatrain being
We’re among the wavin’ date-palms,
Making Jacko Turkey-trot,
And send sincerest Christmas greetings,
From this Gawd-forsaken spot.
The blank recto of the centrefold has a message from Lindo to Helen, dated 7
November 1917: ‘A very Happy Xmas. The news from here is glorious. Gaza fell
this morning & Jacko is in full retreat. We’re bombing him in squadron formation.
Decent eh! He’s getting a hell of a knocking-about’.
[$100-150]
27 Christmas Cards
Christmas and New Year Greetings [cover title]. 1917-1918 ... 15th Aust. Inf. Bde. Hqrs. France
A two-colour and gilt-embossed pictorial card (124 × 86 mm) with a loosely-inserted centrefold with text printed on
one page (inscribed from ‘George to Ros & Phyl’); in fine condition. + Another card from the same period from the
58th Battalion AIF (part of the 15th Australian Infantry Brigade). A colour-printed card (133 × 80 mm, with the battalion
insignia on the front cover), with a centrefold with the battalion’s battle honours and a routine greeting printed on one
page; portion of the original ribbon binding (in the battalion colours) loosely inserted; a very good copy. Also loosely
inserted is a scrap of graph paper with a note written in ink on it: ‘June 6th [19]18. Please keep this for me, Mum! Best
of love, George’. [2 items]. [$100-200]
28 Conscription
Reinforcements Referendum. Polling Day—Thursday Dec. 20 ... Vote early! Vote YES For Reinforcements
[cover title]
Adelaide, Printed by The Mail Newspapers Limited (Authorised by J.H.S. Olifent and F.B. Vincent, Joint Secretaries),
[1917].
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A double-sided six-panel leaflet (130 × 450 mm, folding down to 130 × 80 mm); a fine copy of a very rare piece
of ephemera. The first referendum on conscription was only narrowly defeated in October 1916. For his advocacy,
Prime Minister Billy Hughes ‘was expelled from the Labor Party. Long afterwards he said with some truth: “I did
not leave the Labor party. The party left me”’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). The following year, this second
referendum took place. ‘This time passions rose even higher, inflamed by mounting hysteria in Hughes and by the
cold, Irish logic of Archbishop Daniel Mannix. There was a degree of violence unusual in Australian politics, which
turned to farce when Hughes, after being struck by an egg on the railway station at Warwick, Queensland, promptly
established a Commonwealth police force to combat disloyalty. The referendum was lost by a larger majority than
before’. This leaflet certainly displays much of that inflamed passion and hysteria, not least in the Norman Lindsay
cartoon reproduced from the Bulletin. [$200-300]
29 De ROBECK, Vice-Admiral John
Despatch of Vice-Admiral de Robeck reporting the Landing of the Army on the Gallipoli Peninsula contained
in the Second Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, the 13th of August, 1915. Imperial Document
Sydney, Government Printer, 1915 [first thus]. Foolscap folio, 15, [1] (blank) pages.
Stapled as issued, with attached wrappers (with the full title page details repeated on the front cover); acidic wrappers
a little tanned around the edges, with minimal consolidation to some lightly chipped areas; an excellent copy.
New South Wales Legislative Assembly Parliamentary Paper Number 740-A of 1915. The despatch reports ‘the landing
of the Army on the Gallipoli Peninsula, 25th-26th April, 1915’. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Michael de Robeck (18621928) was an Irish admiral in the Royal Navy who commanded the Allied naval force in the Dardanelles during the
war. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$200-300]
30 DENNIS, C.J.
The Moods of Ginger Mick
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1916 [first edition thus]. Pocket-size (145 × 120 mm), 159 pages with full-page
illustrations plus a colour frontispiece, colour pictorial title-page and endpaper illustrations (all by Hal Gye); tipped
in on the half-title is a small slip (printed in red) advertising two other uniform titles.
Pictorial red cloth; signs of use to the covers and text (but read on!); notwithstanding, a very decent copy. One of
only eight titles in Angus and Robertson’s evocative and popular ‘Pocket Editions for the Trenches’ series. This copy is
uniquely significant, not only for its personal literary associations, but also for its fascinating battlefield provenance.
The book is inscribed on the half-title to ‘Lieut. Leslie H. Smith, 8th Battery AFA, 3rd Brigade, 1st Austn Division, Austn
Impl Force. With Greetings & Good Will from J.G. Roberts. Melbourne 20th Oct 1916’. It was at ‘Sunnyside’, the home
of John Garibaldi Roberts in the Dandenongs that C.J. Dennis had written The Sentimental Bloke, published the year
before. Mounted on the pastedown is a snapshot captioned in ink by Roberts; it features Dennis, Gye, Roberts and
his wife at ‘Sunnyside’, South Sassafras, on 24 October 1915. Tipped in front and rear are the trimmed panels of the
dustwrapper, and a small bifolium reproducing caricatures of Roberts by Hal Gye and David Low; mounted at the
rear is a contemporary review of this book which appeared in the Argus on 20 October 1916. Hal Gye has also signed
the title page. Leslie Hamilton Smith saw action on the Western Front; he was badly wounded in August 1917 at Ypres,
and awarded the Military Cross. At some point in his travails, Smith was separated from the book, as there is a later
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inscription on the verso of the front flyleaf: ‘Picked up in a German dugout near Bullecourt in June or July 1918 By Sgt.
G.E. Attwood, author of The Red Red Road to Hooge, Saturday Night Brigade, etc. 2nd London Regt (R.F.) 56th Division’.
At yet a later date (2 February 1923), the following poignant annotation is made on page 132, against an underlined
phrase by Dennis (‘’E wus a man’). ‘“He was a man”. This appears on the gravestone of an Australian soldier wounded
at Gallipoli and buried in Cairo. Erected by his sorrowing widow. W[?] Thomas (Capt), late RWF [Royal Welsh
Fusiliers]’. + A second copy of the same edition, in excellent condition. [2 items]. [$800-1200]
31
Camel Corps. BARRETT, Private Charles Leslie (editor)
The Stretcher. Journal of the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance. First Number. March, 1917 [and] ... Second
Number. April, 1917. [Together with] BARRETT, Charles and Tom V. BRENNAN (editors): The Cacolet.
Journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance. Number 3, September, 1917 [and] ... Number 4, June, 1918
(edited by Tom Brennan)
Melbourne, [Camel Brigade Field Ambulance], 1917 (The Stretcher), and Cairo, Nile Mission Press, 1917 and 1918 (The
Cacolet). Small quarto, four issues, 16; 16; 32 [and] 38 pages with numerous illustrations (mostly from photographs).
Muted colour pictorial wrappers; they are essentially very fine copies. ‘Stories, anecdotes, verse and photos written
and produced by the soldiers of the unit’ (Trove). Both titles are very rare, and it is clear from the records that the
connection we have made—that The Cacolet is the continuation of The Stretcher—is not commonly known, if at all.
The clincher for us was the doggerel printed on the verso of the front cover of the first issue of the second title:
Cacolet is the “Camel” for “stretcher”
While the “stretcher” for “camel” is “hoosta”
The “first” won the toss and this is to let’cher
Perceive we’re just “out” as we “use’ter”
These four journals are bound together in early limp cloth; between these two different titles, copies of a third similar
journal are bound in. Full details are: Barrak. The Official Organ of the Imperial Camel Corps [The Camel Corp Review
(cover subtitle)]. [Number 1], 1st July 1917; [Number 2], 1st September 1917; [Number 3], 1st November 1917; and [Number
4], 1st February 1918 [all published?]. Cairo, [Imperial Camel Corps], 1917 and 1918. Quarto, four numbers, each issue
12 pages (last blank) with a few illustrations. Pictorial wrappers (the fourth one with different artwork and the subtitle
The Official Camel Corps Review); early neat paper reinforcement to two leading edges; uniformly fine copies of yet
more rarities. There is no hint to the provenance of this wonderful collection, but Charles Barrett would have to be at
the top of the short list. [$1800-2500]
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32 DOYLE, E.A. (editor)
The Digger. Australian Base Depots, France. Souvenir Number. L’Adieu. Farewell to France ... Volume 2,
Number 16, Sunday, 18th May 1919 [cover title]
Le Havre, ‘Published weekly by soldiers of Australian Imperial Force stationed at the Bases’, 1919. Large quarto, 16
pages with 9 sketches by John C. Goodchild and 3 illustrations (after photographs).
Tinted pictorial wrappers (also illustrated by Goodchild) a little worn, creased and stained; minimal stabilisation to
the leading edge of the front cover; creases and light water-stains throughout, but a decent copy nonetheless.
The front cover carries the autographs of 35 members of the AIF, presumably collected at the time. This is the 42nd and
last issue of the journal (it first appeared on 4 August 1918). General Sir William Birdwood contributes a full-page
farewell; the rest of the contents are pretty much ‘the mixture as before’ for this sort of publication. The editor gives
some interesting details about the production of the journal on page 4, not least that ‘Each week 3,000 copies have
been printed’. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 264. [$200-300]
33
Egypt and Palestine
An album of photographs of significant military interest, circa 1916-17
The small cloth-bound album (205 × 150 mm) is lightly flecked and rubbed at the extremities; in excellent condition.
There are 48 photographs (visible image size 53 × 80 mm) loosely inserted two-to-a-page behind window mounts
(with printed grey borders) on 12 thick double-sided leaves with detailed captions in neat calligraphy in white ink.
The photographs are in uniformly fine condition. On the pastedown is a gift inscription in ink ‘To Mother, With
Love & Best Wishes, from Norman. 8.2.18’. The uniform captions throughout the album are not in the same hand; the
misspellings suggest the calligrapher was working under instructions.
There are about a dozen snapshots of local people and places, but these are less generic than usual, with half a dozen
taken in Khan Yunus, near Gaza. However, the majority of the photographs have good military content, with a bias
towards heavy artillery pieces and transport (captured field guns; a massive anti-aircraft gun; ‘Indian Mountain
Battary [sic] Gun mounted for Aircraft’; ‘Armoured Motor Cars’; ‘Travelling Workshop’; and ‘Red Cresent [sic] Train,
Kantara’. About a dozen images are very good close-ups of aircraft (one wrecked), with the most interesting being a
series of five depicting a German Albatross [‘Albertross’] D.III fighter (D636/17) and its Austrian pilot. He was forced
to land between Goz el Basal and Karm, south-west of Gaza, when a British aircraft put a bullet through his petrol
tank on the morning of 8 October 1917. ‘Some men of the 9th Light Horsemen who were on outpost work on the west
side of Goz el Basal immediately mounted and galloped out to where the aeroplane had landed. They arrived at the
same time as Dittmar [the pilot] was attempting to set light to the aircraft. A couple yelled instructions and a few rifles
waving wildly convinced Dittmar that his downed aircraft was not worth dying for so he awaited capture. It didn’t take
long for dozens of men to arrive and marvel at the captive aeroplane’ (adf-serials website). Presumably our Norman
was one of them. Another photograph depicts ‘General Royston DSO on the 19th April [1917]’. General John Robinson
Royston (1860-1942) was Officer Commanding the 3rd Light Horse Brigade when this photograph was taken, literally
on the eve of the abortive second battle of Gaza.
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34 Embroidery. BRYANT, 5787 Private Walter Alfred Augustus
A fine example of silk embroidery, featuring the Australian
Commonwealth Military Force Rising Sun badge, produced by
a patient at Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, near Southampton
The embroidery (approximately 170 × 160 mm) is worked on a piece
of silk (265 × 270 mm, roughly trimmed and a little discoloured
around the edges, well away from the design); the embroidery itself
is brilliantly coloured and in excellent condition, expertly displayed
behind an elaborately-cut window mount.
A scrap of paper salvaged from the original mount supplies the main
details: ‘Walter A Bryant 17th AIF ... Netley Red Cross Hospital August
1917’. His service records fill in the rest: he enlisted in May 1916,
disembarked at Plymouth in late November, ‘rejoined unit [in France]
from hospital’ on 12 February 1917, and from then on, from either
sickness or being wounded in action, he was in and out of hospital
until he was repatriated in March 1918. He was admitted to the Royal
Victoria Hospital at Netley on 8 August 1917 with Trench Fever (‘a highly contagious rickettsial disease transmitted by
lice, that infested soldiers in the trenches in the First World War’). Presumably this fine piece of embroidery was the
outcome of many hours of rehabilitation, unlike the untold quantities of embroidered items brought into Australia as
souvenirs purchased by returning servicemen. [$400-600]
35
Gallipoli
The Dardanelles, Sea of Marmora [sic] and Bosphorus. [Hammond’s War Map of the Dardanelles, Sea
of Marmora [sic] and the Bosphorus. Including Four Large Scale Inset Maps of 1 The Dardanelles. 2 The
Narrows.... Showing Fortifications, Railroads, Principal Military Roads, etc. (cover title)]
New York, C.S. Hammond and Company, [1915]. A two-colour map (printed surface 405 × 575 mm), folding down to
175 × 80 mm and tipped in to printed card covers, 190 × 90 mm.
Front cover unevenly sunned; a fine copy, with the map essentially unopened. Elementary, but indicative of the mood
and interest of the time. [$100-200]
36 Gallipoli
Gallipoli. General Sir Wm. R. Birdwood’s Message to the ‘Anzacs’. Christmas 1915 [cover title]
[London, Australian Commonwealth Military Forces], 1915. Duodecimo (160 × 100 mm), a 4-page gilt-edged card
with a cord-bound colour insert, in fine condition.
The front cover of the card includes a portrait illustration of Birdwood; the inside front surface contains short ‘Extracts
from General Hamilton’s and General Birdwood’s Dispatches’; the inside rear surface contains short messages from
Senator George Pearce, Minister of Defence, and General Hamilton: ‘Happen what may, the Australians who fought
at Gallipoli will bequeath a heritage of honour to their children’s children’. The outside rear cover is blank; the insert
is a panoramic colour centrefold illustration, ‘Coo-ee to Australia’ by Corporal [Albert Henry] Fullwood. The blank
verso of the centrefold is inscribed in pencil ‘To Ruby & Dolly with love from Dad. 1/5/16’; a small piece of blue ribbon
is loosely inserted. [$100-200]
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37 Gallipoli Map [Anzac Cove]
Gallipoli. Scale 1:20,000. Kurija Dere
Cairo, ‘Reproduced at the Survey Dept.’, 1915.
A linen-backed map (colour map itself 515 × 620 mm) on a printed sheet of overall dimensions 565 × 790 mm (with
the right-hand portion containing ‘Instructions for the use of squares’ in both English and French, and a reference list
of relevant features on the map in Turkish and English). Printed on the verso of the map is its title and a key to maps
of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Apart from minor stains to the unprinted corner tips of the sheet, a few inoffensive light
stains to the map proper, and some light cockling generally, it is in excellent condition. It folds down to approximately
200 × 100 mm (with visible creases along the folds); there is mild discolouration to the exposed panels of cloth, and
what looks like ‘S. Major’ written in pencil on one of them.
The map is centred roughly along a line running east from Ari Burnu to Kurija Dere. Printed on the coast running
south are Anzac Cove, Hell Spit, Brighton Beach, and Gaba Tepe. The only land feature printed in English on the
map is Maclagan’s Ridge. Ewen George Sinclair-Maclagan (1868-1948), a British regular soldier, was chosen by Major
General William Bridges in August 1914 ‘to command the 3rd Infantry Brigade; he was the only senior officer of the
division, other than Bridges, who was a regular soldier. Bridges turned to Maclagan again when planning the landing
on Gallipoli, choosing the 3rd Brigade to lead the assault.... On 25 April 1915 Maclagan landed with the second wave of
the 9th Battalion, making his way up the ridge that henceforth was to bear his name. Climbing thence onto Plugge’s
Plateau, he quickly made decisions which may be said to have saved the battle’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography).
The absence of any other printed detail makes it highly likely that this particular issue of the map dates from the very
earliest days of the campaign. [$400-800]
38 German New Guinea
Government Gazette.... British Administration—German New Guinea.... Published on the 1st and 15th of each
Month. Volume 1, Number 1, 15th October 1914 [to] ... Volume 1, Number 3, 15th November 1914
Rabaul, Lieutenant J. Lyng, Government Printer, 1914. Foolscap folio, three issues, respectively 12, 8, and 8 pages.
Drop-title, unbound as issued; the first number is creased where folded across the centre, and slightly foxed, but
basically they are in wonderful condition.
The first of these very rare Government Gazettes was printed barely a month after the occupation of German New
Guinea by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force under Colonel William Holmes. In the first
number, he provides a detailed four-page summary of the campaign. Major articles in the three issues include a
report on the ‘Expedition to Kawieang’, ‘Occupation of Nauru’, ‘Colony of New Guinea’, and ‘How to keep Healthy:
Hints on Hygiene’. There are plenty on more routine or mundane matters—garrison standing orders, a punitive
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expedition, lists of prisoners of war deported to Australia—but some of the best devils are in the fine detail. One
example appears in Number 2, published on 1 November. ‘An enterprising New Zealander, Mr. W.R. Lauri, opened a
kinematograph theatre in Rabaul about two months ago. Owing to the War operations it was, however, closed’. It had
recently reopened, with two sessions each week, one for the troops, the other for the general public. ‘The admittance
for military persons is 1s. For the general public it is decided by color: whites pay 2s., yellow (including Japs, Chinese
and Malays) 1s., and brown (that is natives) 6d’. Not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$400-600]
39 GODDARD, Lieutenant George Hubert
Soldiers and Sportsmen. An Account of the Sporting Activities of the Australian Imperial Force during the
Period between November 1918 and September 1919
London, AIF Sports Control Board (and printed by the Rosebery Press), 1919. Octavo, [ii] (title page, verso blank),
118 pages plus 13 pages of plates and the ‘With Compliments’ slip of the publisher (printed in red and bound in before
the title page).
Cloth lightly flecked, marked, rubbed and sunned; bottom margin of one plate slightly marked and creased; an
excellent copy. Loosely inserted is a contemporary Commonwealth Government label addressed to Captain P.E.
Thompson, Sydney; it looks like it was snipped from the wrapping in which the book was originally posted. There is
no index to make light work of determining if he features in the book. However, the photograph of the AIF Cricket
Team accompanying the relevant fourteen-page chapter contains some familiar names: Gregory, Oldfield, Pellew ...
Dornbusch 235; Fielding and O’Neill, page 246. [$100-200]
40 HAMILTON, General Sir Ian
Third Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, the 2nd of July, 1915, containing the Report of the General
Commanding the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the Operations in the Gallipoli Peninsula up to and
including 5th May
Sydney, Government Printer, 1915 [first thus]. Foolscap folio, 12 pages plus a large folding colour map of the Gallipoli
Peninsula (printed surface 287 × 360 mm).
Stapled as issued; several small light stains to the top margin of the first leaf; light tidemark to the top inner corner of
the last two leaves and the map (with minimal impact on the printed surface); a few tiny tears expertly sealed; a very
good copy. New South Wales Legislative Assembly Paper Number 594A of 1915. A very detailed report from the time
Hamilton reached the Eastern Mediterranean on 17 March, with much on the events leading up to the Landing, and
the Landing itself. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$200-300]
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41 HMAT Afric
The Kangaroo out of his Element. The Representative Newspaper of the Australian Imperial Expeditionary
Force (1st Battalion), published on board the Troopship ‘Afric’—1914
At Sea, Printed by Walter Wade for the Expeditionary Force, October 1914. A broadside printed on linen (visible
image size 520 × 410 mm), comprising 6 columns of text and 14 illustrations (including large oval portraits of the King
and Queen, and other assorted fillers).
Light inoffensive stains; a few small holes confined mainly to the unprinted margins; overall an excellent copy recently
rematted and replaced in its vintage glazed wooden frame (external dimensions 690 × 590 mm).
HMAT A19 Afric departed Sydney on 18 October 1914, and left Albany with the first convoy on 1 November. This first
issue, on linen, is undated, but our research has unearthed the fact that the second issue, on paper, came out on 20
October, thus making it the earliest Australian troopship journal of the war. In form, if not in content, it is certainly the
most ambitious. It clearly struck a chord, as the ‘Last Marine Edition’ of 30 November appears to be the 26th number.
Four of them were printed on linen (the other three being Numbers 10, 16 and 25, dated 29 October, 7 November
and 28 November respectively). All of them, whether on linen or paper, must be considered rare. The printer-cumeditor, 196 Private Walter Wade, was an Irish-born journalist who enlisted in the 1st Battalion on 4 September 1914.
His enthusiasm lasted for about three months until 12 December, when, as his service record succinctly puts it, he
‘Deserted at Mena Camp, Egypt’. The archived paperwork relating to his court martial ‘in absentia’ is entertaining
reading—you couldn’t make it up ... Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill
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42 HMAT Anchises. HAMILTON, Captain J.P. (and others)
Going Home. A Souvenir of the Voyage of HMAT Anchises from England to Australia. August 1919. 62nd
Quota Australian Imperial Forces [cover title]
Durban, Commercial Printing Company, 16 September 1919. Quarto, 8 pages with 2 vignette illustrations.
Overlapping pictorial wrappers; rusty staple replaced with archival thread; a fine copy. The masthead credits those
responsible—‘Editor: Capt. J.P. Hamilton, Y.M.C.A.; Sub-Editor: Sgt. J.W. Dent, 55th Batt.; Sporting Editor: Spr.
Waterer’. Among the miscellaneous prose, poetry ‘humorous and serious’, and artwork, the editorial, on ‘Lost Leaders’,
tells the returning veterans that ‘The Australian is sentimental and impulsive and is an easy prey to the stump-orator,
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to the loud-voiced man of fluent speech and plausible argument; he can be moved unduly by appeal to passion ... all
[these] must be rejected, and our ears attuned to the harmony of reason and commonsense’. Not in Dornbusch; not
in Fielding and O’Neill. [$150-200]
43 HMAT Euripides
Homeward on HMT [sic] A14. March, 1918
Sydney, Printed by John Sands Limited, [1918]. Quarto, 94, [2] (thank you note, colophon) pages with numerous line
illustrations plus 6 plates (including a full-page colour frontispiece). There is a printed appreciation ‘To T. Penleigh
Boyd, well-known artist and one-time Sergeant, who contributes the Cover, Frontispiece and many sketches, and to
Sapper Powis for other sketches herein’.
Overlapping two-colour card covers with a small-format version of the colour frontispiece illustration mounted on
the front panel; occasional light foxing and minimal signs of use and age; an excellent copy. ‘A Record of the return
to Australia of 1,500 members of the AIF’ in February-March 1918. More than the standard fare: the last twenty pages
contain the complete nominal roll of the officers and men on board. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill.
[$200-300]
44 HMAT Sardinia. HOLLOWAY, Corporal F. (editor)
The Sardine. On Board HMAT Sardinia [cover title]
Melbourne, Modern Printing Company, 1919. Quarto, 20 pages with line illustrations. Loosely inserted, presumably
as issued, are two pictorial centrefolds, captioned at the head ‘Snapshots of the Voyage Home. No. 9 Quota AIF’; they
contain a total of 29 captioned plates (from photographs).
Cord-bound pictorial card covers slightly creased, with one tiny sealed tear; a fine copy. The final issue, Number 6,
produced in Melbourne in August 1919. The standard fare—prose, poetry, jokes, drawings—plus about four pages
on ‘Formation of No. 9 Quota’ and ‘Short Summary of Voyage’. Trove records a copy of only this issue in three major
Australian libraries. Presumably others were produced, as suggested on page 20, in the summary of the voyage: ‘Also
on this memorable day [Anzac Day] the “Sardine” first came aboard, to prove as we hope, a lasting memento of our
last voyage together’. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$200-300]
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45 HMS Talbot
Sketch C. ANZAC Right Flank. Sketch for use of Supporting Ships. HMS Talbot, 13th July 1915 [title on a
processed sketch map]
[At Sea, The Dardanelles], Prepared by Lieutenant T.H. Thomas RMLI [Royal Marine Light Infantry], 13 July 1915.
A processed (mimeographed) sketch map (204 × 320 mm, mounted on thin board, then varnished, possibly for
immediate use at the time); trifling but apposite signs of use (including the smudging of a handful of words marked
in red); overall, in excellent condition.
This extraordinary relic must surely be tantamount to unique. HMS Talbot was a British protected light cruiser of the
Eclipse-class heavily involved throughout the campaign in the Dardanelles. The ship was part of the covering force
for the first landings, spent many weeks off Gapa Tepe, was the flagship for the landings at Suvla Bay in August, and
helped cover the evacuation. Royal Navy vessels were regularly used to provide covering bombardments of the Turkish
positions during the campaign. This sketch map provided detailed instructions, such as the following: ‘“Chatham’s
Post”. Marked by a red light at night and 4 biscuit tins placed 3 feet apart horizontally by day’. How simple is that?!
A series of notes is appended to the foot of the map: ‘Note 1: Sketch taken from destroyer, Gaba Tepe Bearing S25E,
Watsons Pier N75E. [Note] 2: The majority of the names are those used by the military. [Note] 3: There are numerous
enemy trenches not marked. The most important ones for flanking ship to know are marked in RED. [Note] 4:
Chatham’s post [sic] is the extreme right of the ANZAC Line’. Lieutenant Thomas’s details appear on the right-hand
side of the map, at the bottom of the line marking White Patch. [$800-1600]
46 HMT Durham. NEAL, Lieutenant Norman Percy Harold Neal (editor)
‘Back to the Bush!’ [cover title]
Sydney, Printed by W.C. Penfold and Company, [1919]. Quarto, 51, [1] (colophon) pages with 5 illustrations (from
photographs).
Pictorial wrappers a little unevenly discoloured, lightly foxed, and a little rubbed at the extremities, with minimal
expert conservation near the staples; an excellent copy.
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The name-stamp of Henry L. White, ‘Belltrees’, Scone is on the front cover and a few pages; the stamp of the Public
Library of New South Wales is on an early page (Trove indicates the SLNSW still has a copy, so presumably this is a
de-accessioned duplicate). The souvenir magazine of the voyage of HMT Durham, returning troops to Australia. She
left Plymouth Harbour on 23 October and reached Melbourne on 21 December 1918. The contents are routine fare,
to be sure, but the complete nominal roll is present, and this one is doubly important. Virtually all officers and men
listed (28 and 638 respectively) were returning to Australia on ‘Special (1914) Leave’; in short, all of them had enlisted
in 1914 and survived the war ... A short extract from a South African newspaper, dated 24 November 1918 (when the
ship was at Durban), reprinted here on page 23, makes mention of the fact in unforgettable words: ‘These men are the
1914 men ... who set out from Australia in that wonderful array of 42 transports ... Alas! it is not taking 42 transports
to take them home’. The editor, Sapper Norman Percy Harold Neal, was one of those originals. He survived Gallipoli,
and went on to France, where he was awarded the MM (April 1917), MC (October 1917) and Bar (March 1918), and
was promoted to Lieutenant. We sold this copy to Patrick Walters over twenty years ago, and it is the only one we have
handled. Dornbusch 247; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$300-400]
47 HMAT Durham. WYATT, Ransome Tovey
The Digger on the Durham. Sketches illustrative of Life on a Troopship, executed on the Voyage Home of the
26th Quota, AIF
Sydney, W.C. Penfold and Company, 1919. Large quarto, 72 pages with 32 pages of colour illustrations by the author
(all but one verso blank) and a small tipped-in monochrome illustration of the HMAT Durham on the last (colophon)
page.
Overlapping wrappers (with a small colour illustration reproduced from page 33 in the book mounted on the front
cover) slightly marked, and a little chipped with minor loss to the edges, with a little expert restoration to the spine;
front flyleaf and the first two leaves creased; light vertical crease near the centre of the whole book; light tidemark to
the first ten openings (centred on the gutter), affecting only a few letters on two illustrated pages; overall a very decent
copy.
‘The following sketches were made and used on board the transport Durham during the voyage home of the 26th
demobilization quota of the AIF. They were executed under somewhat cramped conditions on the troop-deck with no
thought of publication or of anything but their immediate purpose either of announcement or amusement.... In some
cases where the humour is too local for general understanding a few words of explanation have been added, otherwise
they tell their own story’ (from the foreword by Wyatt, dated Goulburn, 28 November 1919). The list of contents is
divided into the following sections: Posters, Notices and Announcements used on the Voyage; Lantern Slides made
and used on the Voyage; Miscellaneous Skits; and Sketches illustrative of Life on Board. 3227 Private Ransome Wyatt
was a member of the 55th Battalion, and a talented graphic artist and all-round funny bloke to boot, as this charming
work proves. By publishing the material produced on the voyage for the amusement and edification of the returning
servicemen, he gives a real insight into the frustrations of the slow journey home, and the ways in which the men
occupied themselves. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill (and neither of them record another, much rarer
title by Wyatt, Sketches in the Australian Corps Areas in France and Belgium [1919]). [$300-400]
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48 HUNTER, Trooper Owen Burton
Six original vintage gelatin silver photographs (postcard-format, each approximately 137 × 88 mm) of 495
Trooper Owen Burton Hunter of the 7th Light Horse Regiment, part of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade
The 7th Light Horse Regiment was raised in Sydney in October 1914 from men who had enlisted in New South Wales,
and became part of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade.
Apart from trifling signs of handling, the photographs are in very good condition. Five of them have messages on
the verso to some family friends, the Saxelbys of Bylong, via Rylstone, NSW. Three are studio portraits of Owen in
uniform, taken in Australia before departure in late December 1914; the messages are routine. Two of the others were
sent from Maadi Camp, Egypt. One, dated 7 April 1915, depicts him on sentry duty; the other, dated 22 April, shows
him fully kitted out on ‘my horse “Paddy” had him in Australia. I am keeping well & having a good time why shouldn’t
we?!!’. The last photograph is dated July 1915 and was presumably taken at Gallipoli. It is a very interesting ‘view
of our travelling kitchen & myself busy getting breakfast ready. Sergt Gower is holding our pet mascot (Belgium).
I have been cook for nearly 2 months now & getting first rate’. The Australian War Memorial website fills in the
relevant details: ‘Sailing from Sydney in late December 1914, the regiment disembarked in Egypt on 1 February 1915.
The light horse were considered unsuitable for the initial operations at Gallipoli, but were subsequently deployed
without their horses to reinforce the infantry. The 2nd Light Horse Brigade landed in late May 1915 and was attached
to the 1st Australian Division. The 7th Light Horse became responsible for a sector on the far right of the ANZAC line,
and played a defensive role until it finally left the peninsula on 20 December 1915’. Trooper Owen was invalided to
Australia the following year. [$300-400]
49 Hurdcott Camp
Blighty Days. The Hurdcott Herald brought to book
Salisbury, Salisbury Press [for No. 3 Command Depot, Hurdcott], [1917]. Duodecimo, nine issues of the fortnightly
journal bound as one volume, 134 pages (but read on) with illustrations plus the collective title page (printed on the
front flyleaf) and wrappers on two numbers (one front cover defective).
Pictorial cloth; a fine copy with a gift inscription dated September 1918 on the front pastedown. A collective issue of
the magazine of Hurdcott Camp, an AIF convalescent camp in England. The bound volume appears to have been
produced not before late December 1917 from original numbers of the magazine then available. There are nine issues
present, from Number 1, 21 July 1917 to Number 11, 15 December 1917; they each contain 12 pages, with the exception of
Number 10 (14 pages). Two numbers are not present, and were clearly never bound in: they are Number 2 from early
August, and Number 4 from early September. [Offered with] Between Rounds. Christmas Number of The Hurdcott
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Herald [cover title] (quarto, 16 pages with a few illustrations plus the pictorial wrappers). On the last page is a gift
inscription, and loosely inserted is a two-page quarto letter, both in pencil, from Geo. Walden, one of the Australian
soldiers at Hurdcott Camp (most probably 2042 Private George Henry Walden). The letter, to ‘Dear Boss’, is dated
28 December 1917; in it, Walden describes in great detail the Xmas Dinner menu (BEER is in capitals). ‘[F]or once
military discipline was cut out & the Sergents [sic] waited on mere privates. It was “some” dinner, & one I shan’t forget,
especially as the previous Xmas I spent in the front line at Fleurs on the Somme, & the one previous to that at Lemnos
Island—cooling down after the evacuation’ (from Gallipoli). He ‘Was surprised at the result of the Referendum. The
proposals seemed very moderate, & it seems hard to think that the people of Australia do not place enough pride &
honor in the different Divisions to keep them sufficiently reinforced’. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$400-600]
50 JARMAIN, 513 Private Claude Henry
An album of 172 vintage photographs compiled during his war service in Egypt and the Middle East
The small cloth-bound album (180 × 250 mm, with ‘Mitry’s Photo-Stores Cairo’ in gilt on the front cover) is heavily
flecked and a little marked, with minor restoration to the spine; essentially a very good copy.
The name ‘M.R. Jarmain Egypt 1917’ is written in ink on the front pastedown. The photographs vary in size from 45 ×
65 mm to about 100 × 120 mm; they are mounted on both sides of 24 thick card leaves, with (mainly contemporary)
captions in ink throughout. Thirteen of the 48 pages have had the plates and captions originally there removed; apart
from a handful from North-West India, they have been replaced with apposite images and relevant captions. These
captions, in ballpoint pen, have been added at a much later stage, but definitely by Claude Jarmain (there are many
examples of his early and late writing styles in his service record). Overall, the album and its contents are in very
presentable condition. Internal evidence strongly suggests that the album was compiled by 513 Private Claude Henry
Jarmain (in spite of a couple of anomalies: who is the M.R. Jarmain on the inside front cover, and there was no Sergeant
C. Jarmain, as one caption has it). Claude Jarmain was originally a trooper in the 5th Light Horse, and saw action
at Gallipoli. Debilitating illness (not least, malaria) resulted in him eventually being transferred to the Australian
Depot Stores in Ghezirah. The contents are mainly a cross-section of his work and leisure activities, but the best of
the material, relating to Light Horse action subsequent to his departure from the regiment, presumably came from
former comrades-in-arms. Approximately half of the photographs are the ubiquitous snapshots of local landmarks
and people; some are from personal negatives, others look like over-the-counter images. There are some personal
ones of the ADS staff (and its soccer team), half a dozen of the Rafa Races, and plenty showing military personnel
on leave or at ease. However, it is the 40 or more Light Horse-related images which give this album considerable
clout, with captions such as ‘Australians tired out after the first Gaza Battle’; ‘Burial Operations (Gaza)’; ‘Wounded
being entrained’; ‘Light Horse on the march (Sinai)’; ‘A Desert Cemetery (Palestine)’; ‘Bedouin Prisoner (Sinai)’ (two
items); ‘A Gas Attack at Gaza’ (two items); ‘Old Friends 5th ALH’ (two items); and ten or more very good photographs
of Light Horse camps in the desert. [$800-1000]
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51
Map
Administrative Map. Dated 15.9.18 [overprinted title on a standard French 1:40,000 map of part of the
Somme Department]
[France], ‘Corps Topo. Section’ [Australian Army Corps Topographical Section], 14 September 1918. A composite
map (two overlapping sheets pasted together), with a total printed surface approximately 410 × 1145 mm. The lefthand portion has the title ‘Suzanne’ and the scale printed in the top margin (this has been trimmed from the righthand portion); reference numbers ‘62D’ and ‘62C’ have been written in indelible pencil in the left- and right-hand
margins respectively.
The map, on paper as issued, is rolled and creased where originally folded, with minimal consolidation along the
bottom edge; trifling signs of use and age (including a few pinholes along the top margin); in very good condition.
Stamped in ink on the blank verso at a much later date is ‘“News Editor” Merleine J. Chidzey ... East Hills 2213’.
Additional information is overprinted in both black and red ink. The former includes the title and publisher, as well
as the names and boundaries of eight contiguous communes, from Morcourt and Bray in the east to Mesnil and
Péronne in the west. Overprinted in red ink is ‘Secret Copy No.’ (with ‘37’ added by hand), and transport routes with a
relevant legend. The Australian War Memorial has digitized the Australian Corps Topographical Section’s war diaries
(RCDIG1007707). This map is listed as #971 in the ‘Statement of Special Maps produced ... during September 1918’, and
was one of only 80 prepared for the Intelligence Branch. Péronne and Mont St Quentin had been taken by Australian
forces under Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash in the first days of September. Later, ‘Monash said of the Mont St
Quentin and Péronne campaign that it furnished the finest example in the war of spirited and successful infantry
action conducted by three divisions operating simultaneously side by side. The fight had also included battalions from
every Australian state. British Commander General Lord Rawlinson remarked that this feat by the Australian troops
under Monash’s command was the greatest of the war. Forced out of Péronne, the Germans had to retreat to their last
line of defence—the Hindenburg Line’ (Australian War Memorial website). [$500-700]
52 Map
Advances made by Australian Corps. 27-3-1918 – 17-7-1918 [overprinted title on a standard Field Survey
Company 1:40,000 map of the Amiens region]
[France, Australian Army Corps Topographical Section], July 1918. Printed surface 500 × 630 mm, overprinted as
above, with applied hand-colouring to the right-hand side, and a processed typescript legend (130 × 163 mm) and
hand-coloured key mounted in the centre.
The map is creased where originally folded, and lightly cockled around the edges of the mounted legend; a beautifully
extra-illustrated map in excellent condition, recently matted, glazed and framed. All in all, a superb presentation.
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The base map carries the imprint of the ‘Field Survey Co., R.E. (3536) 1.5.18’ and it is ‘Parts of 57D and 62D’. The
detailed typescript is self-explanatory: ‘This chart shows, in [16] different colors, the successive attacks carried out by
the Australian Corps on the Amiens Front, from March 17th 1918 to the present date’. Details of the dates of actions
and brigades involved are then listed. ‘In addition to the occupation of ground of considerable tactical value along the
whole Corps Front, these operations have yielded upwards of 3,000 prisoners, 400 machine guns, 50 trench mortars,
2 field guns, and much smaller booty. Throughout this offensive period, no less than 16 enemy divisions have been
encountered and defeated’, and these divisions are also listed. The hand-colouring takes the form of an arc running
north-east from Cachy, near Villers-Bretonneux, to Dernancourt.
The Australian War Memorial has digitized the Australian Corps Topographical Section’s war diaries (RCDIG1007707).
This map is listed as #830 in the ‘Statement of Special Maps produced ... during July 1918’, and it is one of only 40
prepared for the Intelligence Branch. The significance of this map cannot be over-estimated; it is, in part, a masterly
pictorial presentation of ‘Peaceful Penetration’. This ‘was the term coined to describe the tactics employed by Australian
troops to gradually capture sections of the German front line during the lull between the end of the German spring
offensive of 1918, and the launch of the Allies’ own offensive in August. Small patrols and raiding parties would seize
isolated German positions with surprise actions, unheralded by the usual hallmarks of attacks and larger scale trench
raids such as artillery bombardments. In addition to the local tactical advantage that resulted from these operations
they also yielded considerable intelligence about the condition of the German forces, their morale, and their future
plans, that was vital in the preparation of the Allied offensive’ (AWM website). [$1800-3000]
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53
Map
Anzac. Date of Landing, April 25, 1915 (Sunday.) Date of Evacuation,
Dec. 19-20, 1915 (Sun. & Mon. morning)
Sydney, Gerald R. Campbell (and printed by H.E.C. Robinson), 12 April
1916. A full-colour map, printed surface 480 × 373 mm (plus the title and
imprint details in the margins).
This attractive map is creased where originally folded, otherwise it is in
fine condition, recently matted, glazed and framed (visible image size
540 × 415 mm).
The National Library of Australia has much to say about the map and
its publisher (with much of the latter coming from the Australian
Dictionary of Biography). It is a detailed ‘topographic map of the Anzac
Cove region extending from Sair Bair Ridge in the northeast across
to Ocean Beach in the west then down to Poppy Valley. This map is
heavily annotated with information dating as late as Sept. 1915 and
basically shows the location of Australian and New Zealand Forces by
the position of their front-line trenches at this time. Relief shown by
contours, gradient tints and spot heights’. The printed notes include the
comment that the ‘map is based on the Turkish maps taken from enemy prisoners captured about June last’. Gerald
Ross Campbell (1858-1942), barrister, soldier and publicist, was born in ‘Sydney but educated in Scotland at the Royal
Academy. Admitted to the Bar in 1882. Began his army career as a captain in 1885, became a colonel in 1907. He fiercely
believed in universal adult military training using the Swiss system. In 1905 he formed the New South Wales Division
of the Australian National Defence League. In 1914 Campbell was appointed to the State committee for the selection
of officers for the Australian Imperial Force. In 1915 and 1916-17 he served with the Sea Transport Service as officer
commanding troops for two voyages to Egypt and England. Retired from the army as honorary brigadier general in
1920’. He practised what he preached: the map was priced at a shilling, and ‘Any profits derived from the sale of this
map will be handed to one or more of the War Funds’. [$300-400]
54 Map
Australian Corps Area. Dated 2.9.18 [overprinted title on a standard Ordnance Survey (Overseas Branch)
1:40,000 map of part of the Somme Department]
[France], ‘Corps Topo. Section’ [Australian Army Corps Topographical Section], 3 September 1918. A composite map
(two overlapping sheets of different sizes pasted together); the printed surfaces of the two parts are approximately
410 × 665 mm and 500 × 375 mm. The left-hand portion, printed in two colours, retains its bottom margin with the
metric and imperial scales, and the imprint ‘Ordnance Survey (O.B.) Aug. 1918’. The right-hand portion has its own
right-hand portion excised (as here issued), but retains its margins on the other three sides; in the bottom one, there
is the imperial scale, and the imprint details ‘G.S., G.S. 2743’ [Geographical Section, General Staff], and ‘Field Survey
Bn. R.E. (4143) 9-8-18’. Reference numbers ‘62D’ and ‘62C’ have been written in indelible pencil in the bottom leftand right-hand margins respectively. The left-hand portion is mounted on fine open-weave linen (as issued); the
composite map is rolled and creased where originally folded, with minimal consolidation along the bottom edge;
trifling signs of use and age (including pinholes in the margins); in very good condition. Stamped in ink on the
blank verso at a much later date is ‘“News Editor” Merleine J. Chidzey ... East Hills 2213’. Additional information
is overprinted in both black and red ink. The former includes the title and publisher; the names and boundaries of
thirteen contiguous communes, from Glisy, Aubigny and Villers-Bretonneux in the east to Cappy and Suzanne in the
west; ‘Corps Southern Boundary’; and ‘Corps Northern Boundary’. The latter has been pushed south near Clery-surSomme and Mont St Quentin, and the new ‘Amended Bdy’ is overprinted in red ink (as are transport routes and their
legend). ‘Secret copy No.’ is also overprinted (with ‘24’ added by hand in pencil).
The Australian War Memorial has digitized the Australian Corps Topographical Section’s war diaries (RCDIG1007707).
This map is almost certainly #934 in the ‘Statement of Special Maps produced ... during September 1918’, and it is one
of only 200 prepared for the Intelligence Branch. (We say ‘almost certainly’ because of one small anomaly: #934
conforms in every detail except for the fact that it is recorded as being on the scale of 1:20,000, not 1:40,000.)
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A map classified ‘Secret’ from 2-3 September 1918 of this portion of the Western Front, prepared by and for the AIF, is
of considerable significance, as this account from the Australian War Memorial website makes abundantly clear. ‘The
end of August found German troops at their last stronghold at Mont St Quentin, overlooking the Somme River and
the town of Péronne. Mont St Quentin stood out in the surrounding country, making it a perfect observation point
and a vital strategic area to control. This area was key to the German defence of the Somme line. As it was such an
important area, Lieutenant General Sir John Monash was keen to capture it and thus possess a valuable position....
This Australian operation is sometimes regarded as the finest achievement of the AIF. The 2nd Australian Division
crossed the Somme River on the night of 31 August, and attacked Mont St Quentin at 5 am, from the unexpected
position of northwest. It was a difficult position as it was an uphill fight for the troops, across very open ground
where they were vulnerable to attack from the German-held heights above. Rifle grenades and trench mortars were
employed to outflank outpost positions. The battalions positioned to the right made a lot of noise to distract the
Germans, while the centre and left battalions got a foothold on the hill and in Feuillaucourt.... By 7 am, the troops
had gained the village of Mont St Quentin and the slope and summit of the hill, by working in small groups. The five
German divisions were confused and dispersed, and many had fled. By midnight on 31 August, Monash’s troops had
captured 14,500 prisoners and 170 guns since 8 August. Allied troops also broke through lines to Péronne by 8.20
am on 1 September. However, the Germans quickly regrouped and launched a counter-attack, and the first day of
September saw fierce fighting and heavy losses. Germans attacked and heavily shelled Péronne. Much of the fighting
was hand-to-hand combat. The outnumbered Australians were pushed back off the summit of Mont St Quentin,
and lost Feuillaucourt. Relief battalions were sent, and with their reinforcement, all the areas were retaken by the
Australians, but at the cost of 3,000 casualties.... After heavy and exhausting fighting, the Australians established
a stronghold on the area and forced the complete withdrawal of the Germans from Péronne. By the night of 3
September, the Australians held Péronne. They captured Flamicourt the next day, and advanced 2 miles to the east....
Monash said of the Mont St Quentin and Péronne campaign that it furnished the finest example in the war of spirited
and successful infantry action conducted by three divisions operating simultaneously side by side. The fight had also
included battalions from every Australian state. British Commander General Lord Rawlinson remarked that this feat
by the Australian troops under Monash’s command was the greatest of the war. Forced out of Péronne, the Germans
had to retreat to their last line of defence—the Hindenburg Line’.
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55
Map
Talmas [a 1:100,000 map of this commune in the Somme Department reproduced, then overprinted, by the
Australian Corps Topographical Section]
[France], Australian Corps Topographical Section, 11 April 1918. A lithographed map (printed surface 373 × 480 mm),
plus the title and imprint details printed in the margins.
The map is creased where originally folded, otherwise it is in fine condition, recently matted, glazed and framed (visible
image size 405 × 510 mm). Although centred on the village of Talmas, this map includes the much more familiar and
important place-names of Amiens, Albert, Dernancourt, Villers-Bretonneux, and Vignacourt. The map has the word
‘Secret’ printed in red in the top margin (with [copy] No. 45 added in ink). It is overprinted ‘Australian Corps Area
Map No. 3. (Provisional) 27-4-18’. The added legend identifies the extensive Corps and Divisions boundaries; the
area between them is marked ‘French’. There is also a hatched ‘Army Area Out Of Bounds’—this is the entire city of
Amiens. The dates on the maps are significant: on 11 April the Australian 1st Division was redeployed from Amiens to
Hazebrouck to halt the German advance; on 27 April, the successful counter-attack that retook Villers-Bretonneux
was considered complete. And in between, on 21 April, the Red Baron was shot down in the vicinity, at Corbie. [$800-1600]
56 Menu
The Australian Field Ambulance Open Slap. Bon for the Troops. To Celebrate the First Anniversary of the
Unit’s Arrival in France to do its Bit in the Big Box-on. Barrage lifts 6.30 p.m. Somewhere, Belgium. Monday
26-11-17. Hop Over [cover title]
Octavo, [4] pages comprising a quarto sheet of paper folded not quite down the middle, with the overlapping unprinted
leading edge of the top leaf now a little chipped with minor loss; three later horizontal folds; overall a very good copy.
This hilarious menu-cum-program is apparently unrecorded, and not surprisingly, as it was clearly printed ‘In the
Field’. The second page contains the spoof menu (‘Jellies de Wobble—Furfy Custard a la Macraefish’, that sort of
thing); the third page is the ‘Post Toasties’ (halfway down the list come ‘Reinstouchments; Toothpullers, snargeants;
Scorpions, wottos, musicians’); the last page is the program of musical entertainments. [$200-300]
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57 MOORE-JONES, Sapper Horace
Dedicated to Our Hero Comrades. Sketches made at Anzac during the Occupation of that Portion of the
Gallipoli Peninsula by the Imperial Forces. By Sapper H. Moore-Jones NZE, 1915. First Series ... [cover title]
London, ‘Publication taken over by Mr. W.J. Bryce’, February 1917 (first edition, second issue)/ September 1916
(‘Published for the Artist by Hugh Rees’). A portfolio (350 × 810 mm), containing 10 panoramic colour plates mounted
on captioned cards with plain tissue-guards attached along the rear top margin. All but one of the plates has a white
border (between 5 and 7 mm wide); the printed surfaces of the plates range in height from 115 to 220 mm, and in width
from 508 to 710 mm; the mounts range from 280 × 685 mm to approximately 330 × 800 mm. The verso of each mount
is rubber-stamped ‘Sketches made at Anzac by Sapper H. Moore-Jones’ and inscribed in ink ‘Plate [#]. 1st Edition, 2nd
Issue. Feb. 1917’, with the relevant plate number inserted (1 to 10).
Gilt-lettered orange cloth portfolio with ribbon ties (recently renewed); front panel lightly marked, with a tiny split
to its hinge (at the top); rear panel a little mottled, with a small light tidemark around the anchor point of the ribbon
tie; paper lining lightly foxed; a few trifling chips and creases to the tissue-guards; essentially a fine copy. Mounted
on the inside of one of the portfolio flaps is a small paper label: ‘First published by Messrs. Hugh Rees, Ltd., Sept.,
1916. First edition, 2nd issue, Dec., 1916. Publication taken over by Mr. W.J. Bryce .... London ... Feb., 1917’. Offered
with the index booklet: Complete Index to the First Series of Sketches made at Anzac by Sapper H. Moore-Jones (New
Zealand Engineers) during the Historic Occupation of that Portion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by the Imperial Forces.
With Forewords by General Sir Ian Hamilton ... Lt.-General Sir W.R. Birdwood ... and Lt.-General Sir Alexander Godley
... London, Published for the Artist by Messrs. Hugh Rees ..., 1916. Oblong quarto, 24 pages with 10 illustrations (being
keys to the panoramas, overprinted in red), plus the wrappers (printed on the outer surfaces in red, with text printed
on the inside front cover). An errata slip is tipped in on page 14; it seems to contain an error itself (the correction
on page 15 to ‘2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade’ has been altered in ink to read ‘3rd’). Top corner of the front cover
and the first two leaves slightly creased; minimal light foxing; a fine copy. The paper label announcing the change of
publisher is affixed to the foot of the front cover.
The foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Godley, Commanding New Zealand Expeditionary Force, puts
the true worth of this item in perspective: ‘I made my first acquaintance with these sketches in the trenches, coming
by chance one day upon the artist while he was busily engaged upon one of them’. Lieutenant-General Sir William
Birdwood, Commanding 1st Anzac Corps, echoes these remarks: ‘Many of Sapper Moore-Jones’s pictures were, I
know, done while shells were whistling overhead, and they portray very faithfully the country in which we were
operating, and being so full of detail as they are, give a good impression of the conditions of life in which our troops
were working for some eight months’. Not in Dornbusch NZ; not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trove
records only two copies of the portfolio of panoramas (and five copies of the index booklet). The excessive rarity of
this portfolio is underscored by the prices paid for the only copies we have traced in the international auction results.
Both copies were sold through Sotheby’s in London: a copy with the booklet sold on 10 May 2011 for £6,500; and a
worn copy lacking the booklet sold on 17 November 2015 for £3,800. No Second (or subsequent) Series was published.
This copy was sold by us at auction in November 2014; the consignor had purchased it in 1966 at the Henry Hampden
Dutton sale.
Horace Moore-Jones (1868-1922), ‘New Zealand’s best-known war artist from the period ... won high acclaim in
Britain and New Zealand for his Gallipoli sketches, which are now a vital part of the art collection of the Australian
War Memorial, Canberra’. He died as a result of injuries received while rescuing people from a hotel blaze at Hamilton,
NZ, in April 1922; ‘Observers said that he displayed the “greatest heroism”, and that “his gallantry was responsible for
many being saved”’ (Te Ara—The Encyclopedia of New Zealand). [$3500-7000]
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58 NEAL, Sapper Norman (editor)
The Kan-Karroo Kronikle. Registered at the Orderly Room for Transmission to any part of HMTS Karroo
[individual drop titles]
[Cairo?, The Editor, 1915]. Large octavo, 82 pages with 2 illustrations (from photographs) and a few illustrations
(silhouettes of warships).
Printed wrappers a little foxed; minor restoration to the covers and first two leaves; trifling signs of use and age; a very
good copy.
The cumulative reprint issue of this important early troopship journal. It was originally printed and published on board
HMAT A10 Karroo in eleven numbers between 28 October and 2 December 1914. They were ‘Printed and published for
the Amusement Committee, by Sappers Neal and Scott’ (the first number has Burns, not Scott, and the latter is credited
in the preface as rendering ‘valuable assistance in the typing of this paper’). HMAT Karroo was part of the famous
Albany Convoy, which left Western Australia on 1 November. The first number of the Kronikle is dated 28 October, and
contains an account of the voyage from Melbourne, which commenced on 20 October. The ‘want of proper printing
materials’ is a constant refrain, and in the third number, the editor advises readers that because ‘only a limited number
are issued on account of the lack of proper printing apparatus [on] arrival in ENGLAND the whole issue will be printed
in book form’. The last number reminds ‘Those desirous of obtaining copies ... when printed in book form should
hand their names to the Editor’. By this stage, they were bound for Cairo, and the date ‘18/2/15’ written in ink in a
contemporary hand at the head of the preface strongly suggests that this is where the book was printed. At a much later
date, the front cover and first page were signed ‘Len Lewis’. Service records prove beyond doubt that this is none other
than 92 Sapper Leonard Jabez Lewis, one of the Karroo originals, wounded at Gallipoli, and was still around in 1968,
aged about 75. Norman Percy Harold Neal survived the war, having been awarded the MM (April 1917), MC (October
1917) and Bar (March 1918), and was promoted to Lieutenant. Not in Dornbusch (but 247 is Lieutenant Neal’s 1919 effort
on the return journey to Australia, Back to the Bush); not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$400-600]
59 POWELL, A.G. (editor)
‘Coo-ee!’. The Journal of the Bishop’s Knoll Hospital. Volume 1, Number 1, November 1916 to Volume 1, Number
12, October 1917
Bristol, Partridge and Love Ltd, 1916 to 1917. Quarto, twelve numbers bound in one volume (the cumulative issue),
with a frontispiece (‘Our Commandant’) and dedication leaf (‘This Volume is Dedicated to the first Thousand sick
and wounded Australian Soldiers who were patients at Bishop’s Knoll hospital’), plus [36] pages (Numbers 5 and 7-12)
or [40] pages (Numbers 1-4 and 6) with numerous illustrations (both from photographs and drawings) per issue.
Number 8 has a tinted pictorial front cover. There are pagination discrepancies with four issues, one of which is easily
solved: the stub is all that remains of the second leaf of Number 11. However, nothing is obviously missing from the
other three (Numbers 5, 6 and 12); perhaps it has something to do with covers not retained when the numbers were
bound.
Original blue stippled cloth with the very large colour pictorial title-label mounted on the front cover (with the same
artwork as used for the cover of Number 8); new endpapers; one opening a little marked, with slight loss to one
margin; minor signs of use; a very good copy.
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Bristol-born Robert Edwin Bush (1855-1939) spent over 20 years in Western Australia; he was a leading pastoralist
and a member of WA’s first Legislative Council. He returned to England in the 1900s and, when war broke out,
converted his stately home, Bishop’s Knoll, into a hospital for wounded Australian soldiers, meeting all expenses.
The first number expresses the hope that the journal ‘will enable soldiers of the Commonwealth generally to place on
record personal happenings and experiences of these stirring war times which might otherwise pass into oblivion’.
Number 12 records that ‘Coo-ee is a journal originally promoted in the interests of the Australian Wounded nursed at
Bishop’s Knoll Hospital, Bristol, but has since been adopted generally as “their particular organ” in this country’. One
interesting feature in most numbers is the list of patients during the particular month, giving name, rank and service
number. The editorial in Number 12 foreshadows reduction in the size and scope of the journal for austerity reasons;
‘we are loath to let it disappear altogether’. However, it seems no further numbers were published. Not in Dornbusch;
Fielding and O’Neill, page 264. [$400-600]
60 The Rising Sun. A Journal of the AIF in France. (With which is incorporated ‘The Honk’). Number 11, February
1st, 1917 and Number 12, February 5th, 1917
‘In the Field’, The Anzac Press, 1917. Small quarto, two issues, 4 pages per issue.
Pictorial masthead, printed on fine paper; old creases where folded for pocket or posting; minor wear; front page of
Number 11 a little marked; very good copies of very rare items. Number 11 reprints ‘Why Mick went to the War’ by
C.J. Dennis (and this must be one of the very few items to escape the gimlet eye of his bibliographer Ian McLaren).
Number 12 is devoted to items selected for The Anzac Book but held over for want of space. A total of nineteen
numbers were issued between 25 December 1916 and 24 March 1917. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page
264. [2 items]. [$200-300]
61 Trench Art
A remarkable piece of trench art, a slouch hat fashioned out of scrap brass by a German prisoner of war,
and engraved with its simple story
The miniature hat (approximately 78 × 57 × 27 mm, hand-made from scrap brass) has the left brim upturned with
the Rising Sun badge engraved on it; on the flat portion of the brim is engraved ‘Souvenir—1914-1919—Péronne’, with
some decorative flourishes. Engraved on the flat underside (there is no hole for the ‘head’) is the artist’s signature:
‘Made by Prisoner Alfred Pieneck, Berlin’.
We have all seen untold pieces of trench art, but this is surely the one in a million to covet: an Australian slouch hat,
a German prisoner of war, and Péronne is certainly a trifecta ... ‘The end of August found German troops at their last
stronghold at Mont St Quentin, overlooking the Somme River and the town of Péronne. Mont St Quentin stood out
in the surrounding country, making it a perfect observation point and a vital strategic area to control. This area was
key to the German defence of the Somme line. As it was such an important area, Lieutenant General Sir John Monash
was keen to capture it and thus possess a valuable position.... This Australian operation is sometimes regarded as
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the finest achievement of the AIF.... By midnight on 31 August, Monash’s troops had captured 14,500 prisoners and
170 guns since 8 August.... After heavy and exhausting fighting, the Australians established a stronghold on the area
and forced the complete withdrawal of the Germans from Péronne. By the night of 3 September, the Australians
held Péronne’ (Australian War Memorial website). Research into Alfred Pieneck has unearthed little: the records of
the ICRC (Prisoners of the First World War) archives indicate he was born in 1896, and may have served in the 84th
Infantry Division, which was in the Somme from May 1918. Péronne may well have held particular significance for
him. [$600-1200]
62 TSS Euripides. HARRIS, Lieutenant Phillip Lawrence (editor)
The Homing Aussie. A Souvenir of the Voyage of TSS Euripides. Sept.
– Oct. 1919 [cover title]
Durban, Printed by R. Philps at his West End Printing Works [for the Editor],
1919. Quarto, 32 pages with 24 illustrations (some from photographs) plus
a double-page pictorial supplement (‘Euripidean Scenes’) now tipped in on
the inside rear cover.
Pictorial wrappers with advertising on the outside rear cover; rusty staples
replaced with archival thread; slight wear along the spine; an excellent copy.
The introductory note on the first page explains how the substantial
magazine was produced in the three days the ship was in Durban. The editor
introduces himself on page 16, and acknowledges the assistance of one of the
literary contributors, Vance Palmer. Phillip Harris was also the editor of the
well-known Aussie: The Australian Soldiers’ Magazine; its thirteen numbers
were ‘Printed in the Field’ in France and Belgium between February 1918
and April 1919. We can find no indication that bibliographers and cataloguers have made this connection before, but
it should have been immediately obvious. Not only is the title—The Homing Aussie—a dead giveaway, the bird on
the wing on the front cover is wearing Aussie’s trademark face! This copy has the ownership details of 59839 Private
Raymond Walter Weekes, 55th Battalion, on the front cover. Far more significantly, page 16 is signed by two other
passengers, ‘A. Jacka. VC MC & Bar. Captain 14th Bn AIF’ and ‘Jack Ryan VC 55th Batt’. Albert Jacka was awarded the
AIF’s first VC, and at his funeral in 1931 was called with some justice ‘Australia’s greatest front-line soldier’. He had a
steady postwar career as a businessman and, from 1929, mayor of St Kilda, but fell ill and died in late 1931, his funeral
procession a grand affair which was witnessed by thousands of onlookers and led by 1000 returned soldiers. The life
of Edward John Francis Ryan in the difficult years after the war is a stark counterpoint. Ryan arrived in France in
mid-1916 as a reinforcement of the 55th, and won the VC in the attack on part of the Hindenburg Line on 30 September
1918. The Australian Dictionary of Biography notes dispassionately that he ‘found it hard to adjust to civilian life’, and
he spent many years literally on the road during the Depression before finding work in Melbourne. His worsening
health saw him back on the streets and he died of pneumonia in 1941. [$800-1200]
63 WALTERS, Private Charles Victor (editor)
The Third Battalion Magazine. August 1918
London, ‘Printed for the 3rd Battalion AIF, by Printing-Craft Limited’, 1918. Large quarto, 12 pages with numerous line
illustrations (mainly by Walters) plus 9 plates in a pictorial centrefold.
Overlapping two-colour wrappers with the colour patch of the battalion on the front cover; two contemporary
(relevant) newspaper cuttings mounted on the inside front wrapper; minor water damage to some top corners
(adhesion damage to the blank margins of five pages, with minor loss to one corner; plus some light tidemarks,
most noticeably to the centrefold); one rusty staple missing, with minor stains to the paper nearby; a few short tears
expertly sealed; overall a decent copy. The first and only issue, with the text printed from the attractive calligraphic
manuscript prepared by Charles Walters. One of the newspaper cuttings is a short In Memoriam for Captain Ralph
Ingram Moore MC DCM, a member of the battalion killed at Passchendaele on 7 October 1917, ‘Also in grateful
memory of Amos Gratton, the faithful and devoted friend of Captain Moore’, who died at the same time. Not in
Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis-Smith 203. [$150-200]
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Memoirs
64 4th Field Ambulance. BEESTON, Colonel Joseph Lievesley
Five Months at Anzac. A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance,
Australian Imperial Force
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, [1916]. Octavo, [viii] (last blank), 68, [4] (blank), 32 (publisher’s catalogue, dated
February 1916) pages plus 7 pages of plates.
Cloth lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; endpapers offset; minimal foxing; an excellent copy with a
contemporary gift inscription on the front pastedown (‘Colin—Best wishes. M.R. April 1917’).
A rare book from an uncommon perspective, with, not least, an impressive photograph of John Simpson (Kirkpatrick)
and his donkey. Ill-health (Mediterranean fever) caused the author to leave Gallipoli at the end of September 1915. His
much longer original manuscript is in the National Library of Australia. Dornbusch 354; Fielding and O’Neill, page
234; Trigellis-Smith 324 (‘personal reminiscences ... containing much to warrant its inclusion’). [$300-400]
65 BEEVOR, Miles Fitzroy
My Landing on Gallipoli
[Adelaide, The Author, circa 1935]. Small quarto, [i] (title), [i] (blank),
37 leaves of processed typescript (all versos blank).
Full dark blue leather (with the title in gilt on the front cover) lightly
sunned on the spine and slightly rubbed at the extremities; boards
a little bowed, resulting in a short split to the foot of the front inner
hinge; an excellent copy (internally fine).
Two pages have pencilled addenda, almost certainly in the author’s
hand. On page 2, ‘Lieut. Commander William G.A. Shuttleworth
Commanding’ is inserted after the ship’s name in the first line of the
footnote; on page 19, the word ‘splendid’ is added to the end of line 5.
There is also a correction to the name ‘Mudros’ on page 6 (line 15).
Copies in four institutional libraries notwithstanding, this is a very
rare item; apart from selling this copy once before in 1993, we have
not seen nor heard of another one on the open market. It is a personal
account by Miles Fitzroy Beevor, a Major in the 10th Battalion, of the first twenty-four hours ashore at Gallipoli on
25 April 1915. His day ended when he was badly wounded in the foot; he was evacuated after receiving first aid from
Captain Arthur Butler, ‘the Regimental Medical Officer of the 9th Battalion, Queenslanders’ (and later, the author of
the monumental three-volume Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918). He
eventually rejoined the battalion at Gallipoli on 20 October. He was subsequently promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel,
and became Commanding Officer of the 52nd Battalion. This self-published item commences with a reference in the
text to the ‘more than 15 years’ that have passed since the landing, and (according to Trove), the copy of the book in
the National Library of Australia is inscribed, signed and dated (11 September 1935) by the author. Not in Dornbusch;
not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$700-1000]
MEMOIRS
66 [BLACKBURN VC]. HERBERT, Aubrey
Mons, Anzac & Kut. Introduction by Desmond MacCarthy
London, Hutchinson and Co., [1930 (augmented edition)]/ 1919. Octavo, 270 pages with
4 maps.
Red cloth lightly flecked and marked, with the spine moderately sunned; edges slightly
foxed; flyleaves offset; a very good copy with extraordinary provenance. The small paper
label on the pastedown indicates the book was sold in Adelaide by the booksellers F.W.
Preece and Sons; the front flyleaf is signed in ink ‘Arthur S. Blackburn’.
Arthur Seaforth Blackburn (1892-1960), ‘soldier and lawyer’ as the Australian Dictionary
of Biography prosaically notes, is perhaps better known as Blackburn VC, decorated for
his actions under fire at Pozières in 1916. A less well-known, but equally momentous
feat, is recorded by C.E.W. Bean in his ‘Preface to the Third Edition’ published in the
third and subsequent editions of Volume 1 of the Official History of Australia in the
War of 1914-18, in the section headed ‘Farthest inland’: ‘Evidence has lately come to
hand affording strong grounds for the belief that two scouts of the 10th Battalion [almost certainly the first battalion
to land on Gallipoli]—Private A.S. Blackburn (who in 1916 as a lieutenant won the Victoria Cross at Pozières ...)
and Lance-Corporal Robin—reached, and passed slightly beyond the crest at Scrubby Knoll before Loutit arrived
there—in other words, came nearer to the objective of the expedition than any other soldiers whose movements are
known’. Lieutenant-Colonel Blackburn later commanded the 2nd/3rd Australian Machine-Gun Battalion in Syria in
1941, and ‘as the senior Allied officer present, accepted the surrender of Damascus on 21 June.... In February 1942 a
small Australian force including his battalion was hastily landed in Java; he was promoted temporary brigadier and
appointed to command “Black Force”, with orders to assist the Dutch against the rapid Japanese advance. After three
weeks vigorous but fruitless resistance, and in spite of Blackburn’s reluctance, the Allied forces surrendered: he was
a prisoner until September 1945’ (ADB). The book itself is no random choice, as its title indicates. It is a record of
the war service of Aubrey Herbert (1880-1923) ‘up to the middle of 1916. Afterwards he was an intelligence officer at
Salonika, and later in Italy, and in the last months of the war he was the head of the English Mission attached to the
Italian Army in Albania, when he had the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel’ (from MacCarthy’s introduction,
new to this edition). Herbert served with the New Zealanders at Anzac as an intelligence officer. As a fluent Turkish
speaker he played a vital role in the armistice to bury the dead, which took place on 24 May 1915. He also befriended
the Commanding Officer of the 9th Light Horse, Lieutenant-Colonel Carew Reynell, and wrote a poem about him
after Reynell was killed at Hill 60 in late August 1915.
[$600-800]
67 BLUNDEN, Edmund
Undertones of War
London, Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1928 [first edition]. Large octavo, xvi (first two and last one blank), 317, [3]
(blank, list of Blunden’s works, blank) pages.
Black cloth bumped on the front bottom corner; top edge a little dusty, uncut leading edge very lightly foxed; flyleaves
offset (with a neat contemporary gift inscription on the front one); a very crisp and bright copy with the dustwrapper
slightly bumped, rubbed and sunned, with the head of the spine lightly chipped. Loosely inserted is a publisher’s small
leaflet advertising the book, as well as a number of contemporary newspaper reviews for this book and Remarque’s
All Quiet on the Western Front.
‘I was not anxious to go. An uncertain but unceasing disquiet had been upon me, and when, returning to the officers’
mess at Shoreham Camp one Sunday evening, I read the notice that I was under orders for France, I did not hide my
feelings’. And so commences one of the great memoirs of the Western Front. ‘Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was the
longest serving First World War poet, and saw continuous action in the front line, between 1916-18. His life-long friend
Siegfried Sassoon maintained that Blunden was the “poet of the war most lastingly obsessed by it”. His prose account
of the war, Undertones of War, is still in print. It is accompanied by a supplement of poems, some written while he
was still at the front.... The war remained a backdrop to his prolific writing which leaves a continuing testimony to
the after-effects of war on the human mind. He worked between 1919 and 1970 as a poet, literary editor, journalist,
biographer and lecturer, travelling and teaching in England, Japan and Hong Kong.... He was elected Professor of
Poetry at Oxford University in 1966’ (www.edmundblunden.org). [$250-300]
MEMOIRS
68 BROPHY, John and Eric PARTRIDGE
Songs and Slang of the British Soldier, 1914-1918
London, Scholartis Press, 1930. Octavo, viii, 200, [1] (publisher’s advertisement) pages.
Cloth; contemporary ownership details on the front flyleaf (and date of Partridge’s death in ink under his name on the
title page); a fine copy with the unclipped dustwrapper (the spine slightly sunned and chipped at the head).
The first edition of this groundbreaking work (limited to 1000 copies), and the first in a long lifetime’s output of major
lexicographical works by Eric Partridge, the founder of the Scholartis Press. ‘This book, devoid of pedantry, is designed
to entertain as well as to inform. The value of such a collection of songs need not be laboured, and the glossary, so
far from being a list, is an illuminating record of the soldier’s life and spirit both in and out of the line’ (dustwrapper
blurb). The subtitle on the dustwrapper expands on this: ‘An Anthology and a Glossary ... With Introduction, Notes,
and Appendices on Bugle Calls, Chants and Sayings’. We notice in passing that one of three people singled out by the
editors in the preface for thanks ‘for helpful comments on, and suggestions for, the glossary’ is none other than T.E.
Shaw. Eric Honeywood Partridge (1894-1979) saw action with the 26th Battalion at Gallipoli and in France, where he
was wounded at Pozières. His account of that terrible battle, ‘Frank Honeywood, Private’, published by the Scholartis
Press in 1929 in Three Personal Records of the War, is a minor classic. [$100-150]
69 BURNELL, Frederick Spencer
Australia versus Germany. The Story of the Taking of German New Guinea
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1915. Octavo, 254 (first leaf blank), [1] (colophon) pages plus 12 plates.
Cloth lightly sunned on the spine; paper a little tanned (presumably as ever); essentially a fine copy. The ownership
signature of Annie E. Taylor is written in pencil at the head of the front cover. She is presumably related to Private E.A.
Taylor listed as a member of F Company of the Military Force, and whose name is identified with some pencilling.
An account of the capture of German New Guinea by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, by the
‘Special Commissioner to the Sydney Morning Herald with the Expedition’. Dornbusch 371; Fielding and O’Neill, page
242. [$200-300]
70 BURNELL, Frederick Spencer
How Australia took German New Guinea. An Illustrated
Record of the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary
Force [cover title]
Sydney, [Angus and Robertson (printed by W.C. Penfold), 1915].
Quarto, [36] pages with 52 plates (on 27 pages); the last two pages
and the outside rear cover are advertisements for Angus and
Robertson publications (including one page of Australian Military
Handbooks).
Red cord-bound overlapping two-colour pictorial wrappers with
a small image (of HMAS Australia) mounted on the front cover;
wrappers chipped (mainly along the leading edges), with minor
expert conservation; first and last pages offset; a very good copy.
The text comprises a two-page account of the engagement
(Australia’s first action of the war, involving HMAS Berrima),
and a five-page list of all personnel of the Expeditionary Force.
Dornbusch 372; not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis-Smith 334. [$200-300]
MEMOIRS
71
CUTLACK, Frederick Morley
The Australians. Their Final Campaign, 1918. An Account of the
Concluding Operations of the Australian Divisions in France
London, Sampson Low, Marston, [1919 (the foreword is dated
November 1918)]. Octavo, 336 pages with 8 sketch maps plus 7
folding maps.
Cloth lightly bumped at the extremities; edges a little foxed; an
excellent copy (uncut and substantially unopened) with the rare
dustwrapper, with two of the sketch maps reproduced on the front
and rear panels (lacking the spine, but expertly mounted on plain
paper for stability). The author was ‘an official war correspondent
with the AIF in France’. He was the author of The Australian Flying
Corps (Volume 8 of the Official History of Australia in the War of
1914-1918) and Breaker Morant: A Horseman who made History,
and editor of War Letters of General Monash and several other
war-related titles. Dornbusch 306; Fielding and O’Neill, page 243;
Trigellis-Smith 182.
[$200-300]
72 DINNING, Captain Hector
Nile to Aleppo. [With the Light-Horse in the Middle-East (subtitle of the English edition)]
New York, Macmillan (but from sheets printed in England for the George Allen and Unwin edition), 1920. Quarto,
287, [1] (colophon) pages plus 13 plates (including 5 tipped-in colour plates, one a portrait of Lawrence of Arabia) by
James McBey.
Cloth lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities, and very lightly flecked; endpapers offset; uncut edges lightly
sunned; essentially a fine copy. The author, a teacher, enlisted in September 1914 and was attached to 9th AASC.
He rose through the ranks, and served in Gallipoli, France and the Middle East. From May 1918 he worked in the
Australian War Records Section. The portrait of Lawrence accompanies Chapter XII, ‘Working with Lawrence’ (9
pages). Dornbusch 386; Fielding and O’Neill, page 244 (both recording only the English edition). [$200-300]
73 DOULL, Lieutenant David Farquhar
With the Anzacs in Egypt. Life and Scenes in the Land of the
Pharaohs, as seen through Australian Spectacles, by Lieut.
David Doull, one of the Gallipoli Heroes who was with the 17th
Battalion
Sydney, J.A. Packer, Printer and Publisher, 1916. Octavo, [viii] (last
blank), 143, [1] (colophon) pages plus 16 pages of plates.
Two-colour pictorial wrappers (featuring artwork by Harry Weston)
slightly rubbed and creased, with minimal expert conservation;
scattered foxing (mainly adjacent to the plates); mild signs of use and
age; essentially a very good copy. A rare and interesting book on an
unusual theme, being a soldier’s detailed personal account written
for the Australians at home, which deals ‘only with those aspects
of Egyptian and Arab life their loved ones now gaze upon’. Not in
Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill.
[$300-500]
MEMOIRS
74 DOWNING, Walter Hurbert
To the Last Ridge
Melbourne, Australasian Authors’ Agency, [1920]. Small octavo, 192 pages.
Quarter cloth and papered boards with a paper title-label on the spine; rear cover and spine a little unevenly sunned;
flyleaves offset; an excellent copy (internally very fine).
On the Western Front with the 57th Battalion. The five-page foreword by Brigadier-General Harold Edward ‘Pompey’
Elliott records that Walter Downing ‘actually took part as a non-commissioned officer in most of the actions he so
vividly describes.... The accounts of Fleurbaix, the winter on the Somme, Polygon Wood (where the author won the
Military Medal), and the Villers Bretonneux night attack are, in my opinion, by far the truest and best I have read’.
The genuine rarity of this book is explained by William Downing, the author's son, in his introduction to the 1998
edition, published by Duffy and Snellgrove. He states that the publisher went to the wall and his father then received
a great many copies of the book in lieu of royalties. ‘These were later destroyed in a fire—there is only one copy of the
original edition in our family.’ Dornbusch 267; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$400-500]
75 [DUGUID, Charles]
The Desert Trail. With the Light Horse through Sinai to Palestine. By Scotty’s Brother
Adelaide, Department of Repatriation, 1919 [fourth edition]/ 1919. Octavo, viii (last blank), 129, [3] (blank, illustration,
verso blank) pages with 26 illustrations (after photographs, on 14 leaves, versos blank) plus a double-page folding
map.
Original half brown morocco and brown stippled cloth with the title and author in gilt on the front cover; leather
a little rubbed at the extremities, with minor loss to the foot of the spine; bottom corner of the front cover cracked
but very stable; an excellent copy. In our experience, this is a presentation binding, and this copy proves to be no
exception. It is inscribed on the front endpaper ‘Dear Daisy, I brought this home for Aggie and I would like you
to have it if you will. Yours sincerely C.D. 29.7.19’. On the title page below the printed name of the author (‘Scotty’s
Brother’), Charles Duguid has also added the phrase ‘and Aggie’s oldest friend’. We have not been able to identify
either Daisy or Aggie, but the inscriptions speak for themselves.
Charles Duguid (1884-1986), a Scottish-born doctor, was appointed captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps,
Australian Imperial Force, in February 1917. ‘He treated casualties in the Middle East (March-July) before returning
to Australia in a hospital ship. His AIF appointment terminated on 5 October’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography).
The book was written in honour of ‘Scotty’, his brother William George Duguid. He was an original member of the 8th
Light Horse Regiment, and served in Gallipoli, but had transferred to the 3rd Light Horse when he was killed in action
on 19 April 1917, near Aseifiyeh. The author’s foreword recounts in pathetic detail the circumstances of his death. This
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classic war memoir went through four editions in less than six months; in spite of that, this title is elusive, and fine
copies of the true first edition are utterly rare. In forty years, we have not had a copy of the third edition (and the State
Library of South Australia does not have that edition either), but the following information, not at all well-known,
has been gleaned from copies of the other editions we have handled. The second and fourth editions are identified as
such on the front wrapper (which also states ‘Proceeds in Aid of Light Horse Memorial’, replacing a small printer’s
device on the first edition cover). The first edition has the acknowledgements on page iii, and no testimonials; the
second edition has a testimonial from Blackburn VC on page iii, with the acknowledgements on the verso; the fourth
edition has testimonials from Blackburn VC and ‘A Permanently Incapacitated Light Horseman’ on page iii, with
the acknowledgements on the verso. The fourth edition has approximately 40 more pages than the first two editions
merely because it has been set in larger type. Some idea of the rapidity with which these editions appeared may be
appreciated from the following: the Blackburn testimonial is dated 10 February 1919, the other testimonial is dated
6 March 1919, the State Library of SA has a copy of the fourth edition signed and dated by the author on 2 June 1919,
and the processing date of the State Library’s first edition is 29 April 1919. Read it and you’ll understand why it struck
a chord. Dornbusch 387; not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis-Smith 263.
[$1000-1200]
76 [DUGUID, Charles]
The Desert Trail. With the Light Horse through Sinai to Palestine. By Scotty’s Brother
Adelaide, Department of Repatriation, 1919 [first edition]. Octavo, viii (last blank), 88 pages with 26 illustrations (after
photographs, on 14 leaves, versos blank) plus a double-page folding map.
Original wrappers with a vignette silhouette of a Light Horseman on the front cover; minimal expert conservation to
the ends of the spine; trifling signs of handling; essentially a fine copy.
Charles Duguid (1884-1986), a Scottish-born doctor, was appointed captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps,
Australian Imperial Force, in February 1917. ‘He treated casualties in the Middle East (March-July) before returning
to Australia in a hospital ship. His AIF appointment terminated on 5 October’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography).
The book was written in honour of ‘Scotty’, his brother William George Duguid. He was an original member of the 8th
Light Horse Regiment, and served in Gallipoli, but had transferred to the 3rd Light Horse when he was killed in action
on 19 April 1917, near Aseifiyeh. The author’s foreword recounts in pathetic detail the circumstances of his death. This
classic war memoir went through four editions in less than six months; in spite of that, this title is elusive, and fine
copies of the true first edition are utterly rare. In forty years, we have not had a copy of the third edition (and the State
Library of South Australia does not have that edition either), but the following information, not at all well-known,
has been gleaned from copies of the other editions we have handled. The second and fourth editions are identified
as such on the front cover (which also states ‘Proceeds in Aid of Light Horse Memorial’, replacing a small printer’s
device on the first edition cover). The first edition has the acknowledgements on page iii, and no testimonials; the
second edition has a testimonial from Blackburn VC on page iii, with the acknowledgements on the verso; the fourth
edition has testimonials from Blackburn VC and ‘A Permanently Incapacitated Light Horseman’ on page iii, with
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the acknowledgements on the verso. The fourth edition has approximately 40 more pages than the first two editions
merely because it has been set in larger type. Some idea of the rapidity with which these editions appeared may be
appreciated from the following: the Blackburn testimonial is dated 10 February 1919, the other testimonial is dated
6 March 1919, the State Library of SA has a copy of the fourth edition signed and dated by the author on 2 June 1919,
and the processing date of the State Library’s first edition is 29 April 1919. Read it and you’ll understand why it struck
a chord. Dornbusch 387; not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis-Smith 263. [$800-1000]
77 FACEY, Albert Barnett
A Fortunate Life
Fremantle, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, [May] 1981 [first edition]. Octavo, [xii] (first leaf and last page blank), 326
pages with a frontispiece portrait, 6 maps and 6 full-page illustrations by Robert Juniper.
Synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper (albeit with trifling bumps to the extremities of both).
Not least, there are 43 pages on the author’s experiences in the First World War, including Gallipoli. When he was
86, Facey published ‘the autobiography that made him and his life famous. His ordinariness and decency, and the
enjoyment he took from a life that by the usual standards was far from fortunate, endeared him to his fellow Australians.
The style of the book passed beyond plainness into an elemental purity’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). This
casebound first edition is very scarce, being one of only 500 copies published. Albert Facey died on 11 February 1982,
only nine months after the book was published. [$300-400]
78 FALLON, Captain David
The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme). [The Big Fight. Capt. David Fallon M.C. Winner of the Military Cross
(cover title)]
New York, W.J. Watt and Company, 1918 [presumed first edition]. Octavo, vi (last blank), 301, [1] (publisher’s
announcement), 121-131 (extracts from Mrs Alfred Sigdwick’s recent best-seller, Salt of the Earth) pages plus 8 pages
of plates (the frontispiece with a tissue-guard).
Cloth; endpapers offset; tiny stain on the leading edge, bleeding very slightly into a few leading margins; essentially a
fine copy with the pictorial dustwrapper slightly chipped, creased and torn.
‘Few soldiers in this great war have been through adventures more thrilling, dramatic and perilous than fell to the lot of
Captain David Fallon’, a young Irishman who, at the outbreak of war was ‘physical instructor and bayonet drill master’
at Duntroon, as the dustwrapper blurb would have it (or Dunstroon as the text would have it—and as From Duntroon
to the Dardanelles by Judith Ingle would have it, that role was filled by one J.H. Feetam). He lobbied the Minister of
Defense (here incorrectly called Pierce, not Pearce) and soon found himself on board HMAT A32 Themistocles as
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part of the First Division of the Australian Expeditionary Forces. However, a quick search of the Australian military
records raises more questions than answers, suggesting that this curious work may in parts be spurious. Stuart Braga
first alerted us to this intriguing possibility, bringing all of the above points to the fore. Doubtless, some aspects of
Fallon’s narrative are correct; references to his promotion from the ranks and being assigned to the ‘Oxford and Bucks’
Light Infantry (page 110) appear in the London Gazette of 9 June 1916. However, we suspect the full story of David
Fallon is yet to be told. This copy has an ink signature (‘Captain David Fallon’) on the front flyleaf, offsetting slightly
onto the pastedown and the flap of the dustwrapper. In our opinion, it is a rubber-stamp facsimile signature, not quite
what it appears to be at first glance ... Dornbusch 270.
[$150-200]
79 FLETCHER, Lieutenant Howard Bowden
Boundary Riders of Egypt
Melbourne, Australasian Authors’ Agency, [1919]. Octavo, 66, [2] (‘Conclusion’,
colophon on the verso) pages.
Two-colour decorated wrappers; corners and the foot of the spine slightly
bumped; small mark on the leading edge, with minimal impact on some
leading margins; an excellent copy.
A rare personal narrative of the Australian Light Horse in Egypt. The author
was 453 Staff Sergeant-Major Howard Bowden Fletcher of the 12th Light Horse
Regiment when he embarked on 13 June 1915 on A29 HMAT Suevic. He ended
the war in 1st Squadron AFC, with the DFC to boot (this is misprinted as DFS
on the title page in the book). A short note dated 7 January 1919 and printed on
the verso of the introduction states in part: ‘the following interesting account
was written by the author several months ago when there seemed to be but
little hope of peace. He wrote it in Palestine’. We have previously handled a
copy in publisher’s blue cloth, in which the ‘Conclusion’ page of text is blank.
80 The Gallant Legion Series
The complete twelve-volume set of these Australasian classics of the First World War. Authors and titles are
IDRIESS, Ion: The Desert Column (1935, seventh edition); MAXWELL, J.: Hell’s Bells and Mademoiselles
(1936, fourth edition); WHITE, T.W.: Guests of the Unspeakable (1935, second Australian edition); RULE,
E.J.: Jacka’s Mob (1933, second edition); WILLIAMS, H.R.: The Gallant Company (1933, second edition);
TILTON, May: The Grey Battalion (1934, second edition); REID, Frank: The Fighting Cameliers (1934);
MORROW, Edgar: Iron in the Fire (1934); BURTON, O.E.: The Silent Division (1935); JONES, T.M.:
Watchdogs of the Deep. Life in a Submarine during the Great War (1935); SUTHERLAND, L.W.: Aces and
Kings (1935); and MONASH, General Sir John: The Australian Victories in France in 1918 (1936)
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1933 to 1936 (as above). Octavo, twelve volumes, each volume approximately 300 pages
plus plates where called for (as per the original printings).
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Uniform dark blue cloth with the series title and logo (a soldier charging with fixed bayonet) in gilt on the spine;
light marks to the spines of Volumes 9 and 10; the boards of Volume 11 are a little bowed, its cloth is a little mottled,
and the lettering on the spine a little rubbed; minimal light scattered foxing to a few edges and endpapers; Volume 11
shows mild signs of use; overall an excellent set. Although specific titles appear in the standard bibliographies where
called for, The Gallant Legion editions are rarely noted: Dornbusch 395 (Idriess, in part), 279 (Rule), 342 (Williams,
in part), 403 (Reid); Fielding and O’Neill, noting all but Burton, Jones and Tilton over pages 248-258; Trigellis-Smith
343 (Sutherland). All sets appear to comprise the same mixture of editions as above. [12 items]. [$600-800]
81
GRAY, John Lyons (Donald BLACK)
Red Dust. An Australian Trooper in Palestine
London, Jonathan Cape, 1931. Octavo, 303 pages plus 15 plates and a folding map; the title leaf is a cancel.
Cloth lightly marked, with the spine slightly sunned; edges slightly foxed, with minimal light foxing elsewhere; an
excellent copy. Records indicate that John Lyons Gray, who enlisted in the 2nd Light Horse in June 1916, was born
in February 1899. This personal narrative is based on his active service with the 2nd and 6th Light Horse Regiments.
Dornbusch 390; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$150-200]
82 GROSE, Frank
A Rough Y.M. Bloke
Melbourne, Specialty Press, [circa 1921]. Small octavo, 180 pages with a facsimile of a theatre handbill plus a map and
8 pages of plates (four after illustrations by Daryl Lindsay).
Cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities; spine a little sunned and slightly marked; acidic endpapers discoloured; an
excellent copy. Inscribed ‘To one who did much to make this humble work possible. My friend Lieut. Col. J.C. Selmes
DSO. With the compliments of The Author. Sydney 6/7/31’. A fine letter of commendation from Jeremiah Charles
Selmes, as Commanding Officer of the 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade, is reproduced in the book (see page 162).
Grose was the hard-working representative of the YMCA with the 1st Division Artillery. He gives interesting details
of its endeavours to promote the welfare of soldiers. The Honor Roll of the 1st Divisional Artillery (pages 171-180) has
small pencil marks next to about 30 names in the 1st FAB list; presumably these were put there by Selmes. Dornbusch
272; not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis-Smith 701. [$150-200]
83 GULLETT, Henry Somer and Charles BARRETT (editors)
Australia in Palestine
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1919 (eighteenth thousand). Large quarto, xiv, 154, [4] (publisher’s advertisements)
pages with numerous illustrations, over 30 pages of plates (containing over 60 plates, some 50 from photographs),
and 4 double-page maps (3 of them two-colour) plus a large folding plan of three battlefields, 17 pages of colour
plates (containing 20 colour plates in all, with 6 watercolours by George Lambert and 6 colour photographs by Frank
Hurley) and colour pictorial endpapers. A small printed label ‘Jerusalem’ has been pasted over ‘Damascus’ on the
plate at the foot of page 46.
Flush-cut quarter cloth and two-colour pictorial papered boards; top edge lightly foxed; a fine copy with the very rare
dustwrapper (lightly marked and with minimal expert conservation).
David Barker was the art editor, and he contributed many illustrations, including those on the front cover and
endpapers. He has also contributed to bibliographers’ nightmares if he had anything to do with the index to the
illustrations. ‘Australia in Palestine is in no sense intended as a complete picture of the Australians’ part in the
Great Campaign. It is merely a Soldiers’ Book, produced almost entirely by soldiers in the field under active service
conditions to send to their friends in Australia and abroad. An edition has also been published for sale to the general
public’ (Editor’s Note). The dustwrapper is closely printed on the front, rear, and both flaps with glowing reviews,
commencing with one from the Brisbane Courier: ‘It is a book in which not a line need be skipped. Even the maps
appear to be more interesting than those in most war books, because of the associations of the past.... Every Australian
ought to read the book from beginning to end, and not once, but two or three times, and study the maps carefully.
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Then he will feel proud indeed of his great and dashing Light Horsemen’. Dornbusch [say 242A: it appears without a
number between 242 and 243]; Fielding and O’Neill, page 247. [$260-400]
84 KNYVETT, Captain Reginald Hugh
‘Over There’ with the Australians. By Captain R. Hugh Knyvett, ANZAC Scout, Intelligence Officer, Fifteenth
Australian Infantry
London, Hodder and Stoughton, April 1918. Octavo, xii (last blank), 339 pages plus 8 full-page plates.
Decorated cloth; edges and endpapers a little foxed; paper lightly tanned; an excellent copy. The author was severely
wounded in France in late 1916, and was invalided out of the army on his return to Australia in early 1917. An article in
the Brisbane Courier (2 November 1918) records that Captain Knyvett ‘who took many American audiences by storm
with his thrilling war talks last winter ... died in New York City’ on 15 April 1918. Dornbusch 274; Fielding and O’Neill,
page 249. [$100-200]
85 LOGHE, Sydney de [Frederick Sydney LOCH]
The Straits Impregnable
Melbourne, Australasian Authors [sic] Agency, [June] 1916. Small octavo, [vi], 212, [2] (blank, colophon) pages.
Salmon-pink printed wrappers unevenly faded and lightly worn, with minor conservation to the head of the spine
and one corner; acidic paper tanned; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy of a fragile publication.
‘This Book, Written in Australia, Egypt and Gallipoli, is true’, and this is a copy of the very rare first edition of
this important work. The author, Frederick Sydney Loch (1889-1954), served with the Artillery during the Gallipoli
campaign, and was invalided out of the army in March 1916. Three months later, he published his personal narrative
under a pen-name, and cast it as a novel to circumvent military censorship laws. The first edition sold out in three
weeks; a second edition quickly appeared, but it was immediately withdrawn from sale by the censors. The following
year it was published in English (and curious to relate, again in Australia, this time in Braille!). It has since been
rediscovered, and new editions, under the title To Hell and Back, have appeared in Australia in 2007 and England in
2008, and in England and the US in 2010 (both under its original title). Loch’s wartime experiences lead him to devote
his life to significant humanitarian action, predominantly with displaced refugees in Greece (for much more on this,
see the entry on his wife Joice in the Australian Dictionary of Biography). Dornbusch 361. [$300-400]
86 LOGHE, Sydney de [Frederick Sydney LOCH]
The Straits Impregnable
London, John Murray, 1917 (first English edition). Small octavo, viii, 293, [1] (colophon) pages.
Cloth lightly sunned on the spine; essentially a fine copy. First published (and suppressed) in Australia the previous
year. See Dornbusch 361 (and our lengthy note to the first edition in this catalogue). [$100-200]
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87 LUSHINGTON, Reginald Francis
A Prisoner with the Turks, 1915-1918
Bedford, F.R. Hockliffe, and London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1923. Octavo, 101 pages.
Original quarter cloth and papered boards with a paper title-label on the spine; covers show signs of use and wear,
with slight loss to the label, and there is a little scattered foxing to the text, but these are trifling blemishes that do not
detract in any way from this unique copy, extra-illustrated throughout by the author with fine original pen drawings.
It is now housed in a handsome custom-made chemise, slipcase and clamshell box.
This is an utterly rare book in any circumstances; indeed, it is not listed in any of the standard bibliographies. This
copy contains 35 charming pen drawings depicting scenes and personalities (both friend and foe) from the book.
Many of them are drawn in the margins, but the early leaves contain some large and special pieces. The top half of the
first page of text is now given over to ‘“Anzac”. The Landing. Pope’s Hill the highest point’. The recto of the front flyleaf
has a portrait of ‘Jimmy the One’, described on page 14 as ‘of the old type of Turk, fat, lazy, cruel and cunning, and
to him we were entrusted by the Turkish War Office’. On the opposite blank page, there is a self-portrait of the artist
humping his bluey in palmier days. The entire front endpaper features a panoramic view, ‘On the lower shores of the
Taurus Mountains. Aug 1916’ (he seems to have added the words ‘By Reg’ next to the title at a later date). The charm of
the picturesque scene belies the reality of the situation for the three men depicted admiring the view. Lushington was
one of the many prisoners ‘assigned to work parties in Taurus and Amanus mountains and spent up to twelve hours
a day quarrying, drilling tunnels, felling timber, laying track, and blacksmithing’ (Pegram—see below), and many
prisoners fell victim to sickness, hard labour, and the prolonged effects of malnutrition. The book carries the printed
dedication ‘To my mother’ [Mary Beatrice Lushington], and her initials are written in ink (now faintly visible) on
the front cover. Her signature (as ‘Beatrix Lushington’) is written in ink at the head of the front flyleaf. 5007 Private
Reginald Francis Lushington, born in India, joined the 16th Battalion in Perth and was one of only four Australians
taken prisoner on the day of the landing at Anzac (from the article on ‘Prisoners of War [Australia]’ by Aaron Pegram,
Australian War Memorial, accessed online). He remained in captivity for the duration of the war, and his memoir is
by definition one of a mere handful of its type. Patrick Walters has done much research on Reginald Lushington, and
his notes come with the book. [$5000-6000]
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88 MACKENZIE, Compton
Gallipoli Memories
London, Cassell and Company, 1929 [first edition]. Octavo, x, 406 pages plus a frontispiece map.
Black cloth; flyleaves lightly offset; map lightly cockled; a fine copy with the slightly sunned dustwrapper, complete
with the original ‘Book Society’ wrap-around band (slightly torn).
The first volume of the author’s Eastern Mediterranean tetralogy describing his experiences as an intelligence office
during the First World War. ‘My object has been to recapture the spirit in which I passed through a memorable
experience. This must be my excuse for not displaying as much moral indignation as the mood of the moment expects
from a writer about the War’ (from the preface). Fielding and O’Neill, page 250. [$150-200]
89 MOBERLY, Gertrude Frances
Experiences of a ‘Dinki Di’ R.R.C. Nurse
Sydney, Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1933. Large octavo, 121 pages with an illustration plus 69 plates.
Cloth lightly flecked and rubbed, with the upper board slightly bowed; endpapers offset and foxed, with minimal
scattered foxing elsewhere; a very good copy.
The pastedown is inscribed ‘To Nurse E. Mitchell, with compliments from the Authoress Gertrude F. Hogan neé
Moberley R.R.C., late A.A.N.S., A.I.F. 1914-1919’. Gertrude Moberly served with the 6th Australian Army Hospital
(Suez), and later as nursing staff on transports to Australia and in India. The book comprises letters to ‘Peter’ (James
Thomas Hogan, whom she married after their return to Australia). A later inscription, including the author’s address,
would appear to be in her hand. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 251. [$100-200]
90 MONASH, Lieutenant-General Sir John
The Australian Victories in France in 1918
London, Hutchinson, 1920 [first edition]. Octavo, viii, 352 pages plus 9 folding colour maps and 31 plates (after
photographs by Captain George Hubert Wilkins).
Cloth lightly marked and bumped; flyleaves and first and last leaves offset; minimal conservation to the margin of one
folding map; an excellent copy with a pencilled ownership signature (P. Russell) on the front flyleaf.
‘In May 1918, Monash was appointed corps commander of the Australian forces, and in that year he led some significant
attacks by Australian troops in the final stages of the war. Monash’s troops were involved in helping to stem the March
German offensive. But it was during the battle at Hamel that Monash really secured his reputation. Monash’s skilful
planning and attention to detail resulted in a triumphant attack and capture of the town by Australian and American
troops. This was the beginning of a series of successful campaigns by Australians that continued until their last battle
in October’ (Australian War Memorial website). ‘Military historians have acclaimed [the battle at Hamel] as “the first
modern battle”, “the perfect battle”.... As a general, Monash had the first essential qualities, the capacity to bear great
strain and to make quick and clear decisions.... From early August [1919] in about a month—another amazing feat—
he wrote The Australian Victories in France in 1918; it was propaganda, but not far off the truth’ (Australian Dictionary
of Biography). Dornbusch 331; Fielding and O’Neill, page 251; Trigellis-Smith 183. [$100-200]
91
[MONASH, General Sir John]. De La GRANGE, Baroness Ernest
Open House in Flanders, 1914-1918. Chateau de la Motte au Bois.... Translated from the unpublished French
by Melanie Lind. With an Introduction by Field-Marshal The Viscount Allenby ...
London, John Murray, 1929. Large octavo, xii, 399 pages with a map plus 17 plates and an errata slip tipped in at page 5.
Gilt-decorated black cloth slightly flecked and rubbed; a few pinholes to the rear flyleaf (with paperclip rust marks to
it and the adjacent pages); an excellent copy with exquisite provenance. The front flyleaf is signed and dated in pencil
‘John Monash Dec 1929’, with his note to ‘See letters from the author at back of this volume’. He is mentioned five times
in the index, and on one of the pages referred to (page 336, where twelve lines from one of his letters are quoted),
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he has written ‘Two letters from the Baroness are at the back of this volume. JM 21/12/29’. Fortuitously, both of these
letters (dated 1918) are still present (loosely inserted at the rear), along with another one from November 1929, tipped
in on the front pastedown. This letter, addressed to ‘Dear General Monash’, tells him about the book, asks him to tell
his friends and booksellers about it, and encloses ‘some printed announcements which you can give to them’ (these
are no longer present, so presumably he distributed them as requested!).
The other two letters are of far greater moment, given the context, which is provided by a short obituary in the Sydney
Morning Herald (3 March 1945), under the headline ‘French War Heroine Dies’. It records that the Baroness, known
as ‘Lady Anzac’, had ‘a particular affection for Anzacs. Throughout the war, her historic [chateau] was within 10
miles of the front line. In April, 1918, at last severe shelling and destruction of the area by the Germans to within a
mile—they never got further—drove her out. From the earliest days, when the enemy cavalry were sweeping through
the surrounding forest of Nieppe, she stoutly refused to move’. To prove the point, both of these early letters to ‘Dear
General Monash’ are signed ‘Lady Anzac’. The first one (quarto, 2 pages, 5 April 1918) was written from Versailles,
immediately after her retreat from her chateau. ‘I just arrived at Paris for the raids and bombardments, and found
it worse than the front’. She thanks him for his recent message, ‘so kind of you ..., being in such a heavy fighting
[sic] and so busy.... The Anzacs will once more be the terror of the Huns and show themselves as ferocious, as they
are kind to their friends’. The second letter (octavo, 3 pages, 26 August 1918) commences with a lengthy quote from
the contemporary French press praising Monash for his work in the offensive. The Baroness then continues: ‘The
Australian troops are fighting well; but the plan of the battle is due to their general, and the success belongs to him’.
In an interesting aside, she mentions she will be in Paris shortly and ‘hope I will see the “grosse Bertha” captured by
your army corps. I should like to know which division took it? If it is not a secret?’. The 21-metre barrel of this 15-inch
‘Chuignes Gun’ is still on display at the Australian War Memorial. [$1200-2000]
92 MOTTRAM, Ralph Hale, John EASTON and Eric PARTRIDGE
Three Personal Records of the War
London, Scholartis Press, 1929. Large octavo, [viii] (first blank), 406 pages with 2 full-page maps.
Cloth; tiny mark to the leading edge; endpapers lightly offset; a fine copy with the unclipped dustwrapper a little
bumped and sunned, with minor surface rubbing down the spine (affecting a handful of letters in the printed title).
‘In this book, which may serve to indicate the British point of view, we have three vastly different records of the Great
War. All three contributors were active combatants.... Eric Partridge’s share is a war-autobiography, and deals with
the Australian forces’ (dustwrapper blurb). Eric Honeywood Partridge (1894-1979), lexicographer, writer and soldier,
saw action with the 26th Battalion at Gallipoli and in France, where he was wounded at Pozières. His contribution to
this volume, ‘Frank Honeywood, Private’, is a minor classic: ‘an attempt to describe the terrible battle of Pozières, to
expose himself as an example of a soldier broken but somehow carrying on under appalling stress, and to write the
war out of his system. Incidentally he had much illuminating to say about the men of the A.I.F. and his autobiography
of one intellectual, “sensitive” infantryman stands as a much-needed modification of vulgar notions of the Australian
soldier’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). Partridge was the founder of the Scholartis Press, and he would follow
up this work with his groundbreaking account of soldiers’ slang ... [$100-150]
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93 RAWS, Lieutenant John Alexander
Records of an Australian Lieutenant. A Story of Bravery, Devotion and Self Sacrifice. 1915-1916
[Melbourne, The Raws Family, 1931]. Small octavo, 111 pages with 5 small diagrams.
Full dark blue leather lettered in gilt on the front cover; light wear to the extremities, with the spine a little sunned,
scuffed and lacking a small piece from the head; slight indentations to the top corner of both covers; offsetting to the
endpapers and the first few leaves; a very good copy (internally excellent) of a very rare item. Mounted on the blank
page facing the title page is the printed ‘with the compliments’ card of Sir Lennon Raws (with ‘Mrs Gerald O’Dea’
added in ink).
Sir William Lennon Raws (1878-1958) was the older brother of John and Robert, both of whom were killed in action
in France in 1916. His entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography includes the following detailed account: ‘John
Alexander (1883-1916) was educated at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, and worked as a journalist with the Melbourne
Argus. He enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force in 1915, embarked as second lieutenant in March 1916, and
fought with the 23rd Battalion. He was killed in action at Pozières on 23 August. His letters home, with their graphic
accounts of the carnage, horror and confusion of the French battlefields, were published as Records of an Australian
Lieutenant 1915-16. Robert Goldthorpe (1886-1916), educated at Prince Alfred College and Way College, Adelaide,
embarked with the A.I.F. in January 1915 as a second lieutenant. He was promoted lieutenant in August and served
with the 23rd Battalion at Gallipoli and in France where on 28 July 1916 he was killed in action’. The short foreword to
this book provides the following bibliographic information: ‘These letters [to family and friends] were collected by his
father after Alec’s death ... Fifteen years have elapsed, and it is through the kindness of an old friend that they are now
seen through the press. As they are printed for private circulation only, little editing has been done’. Not in Dornbusch;
94 REEVES, Signaller Lyle Comyn
Australians in Action in New Guinea
Sydney, Australasian News Company Limited (and printed by W.C. Penfold and Company), 1915. Small octavo, 97
(first two blank, next three advertisements), [3] (first two advertisements, last one the colophon) pages plus 36 pages
of plates (from ‘photographs by Signaller H[enry] Ellis’).
Flush-cut colour pictorial cloth slightly rubbed at the extremities; flyleaves offset; essentially a fine copy.
A very rare account of the New Guinea campaign; indeed, this copy is the only one Patrick Walters was offered in four
decades of collecting, and it is the only copy we have seen. Not least, it contains the full nominal roll of ‘Australia’s
First Naval & Military Expeditionary Force’ (pages 80-97). Dornbusch 375; not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis Smith
338.
[$800-1000]
MEMOIRS
95 RULE, Captain Edgar John
Jacka’s Mob. [The 14th Battalion AIF]
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, [January] 1933 [first edition]. Octavo, xii, 346, [2] (blank, colophon), 26 (advertisements
dated 7 February 1933) pages.
Cloth; top edge very lightly foxed; flyleaves offset; essentially a fine copy.
‘From his first day on Gallipoli the author was acquainted with, and served with, Captain (then Sergeant) Albert Jacka
VC’ (from the original dustwrapper blurb); Captain Rule was himself awarded the MC and MM. The book contains
a two-page foreword by John Masefield, Poet Laureate and author of the hugely popular book, Gallipoli (1916).
Dornbusch 279; Fielding and O’Neill, page 254; Trigellis-Smith 217.
[$150-200]
96 SAVIGE, Stanley George
Stalky’s Forlorn Hope
Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, [1920]. Octavo, 176 pages with 2 maps plus 12 plates.
Pictorial cloth very lightly scored and flecked; top edge very slightly foxed; essentially a fine copy.
A rare work about ‘a campaign of which there are few accounts’ (Trigellis-Smith). ‘At the end of 1917 the likelihood of
Russia making a separate peace gave rise to fears as to the security of Persia, Afghanistan and hence the north west
frontier of India. Consequently a mission was established under Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville CB, CSI
which became known as Dunsterforce, comprising around 500 men [including 47 Australians] and a small number
of vehicles. The aim of Dunsterforce was to organize and train local groups of Georgians and Armenians to counter
Turkish operations in the Caucasus’ (Australian War Memorial website). Dornbusch 369 (quoting a note from the
author, stating that although 1000 copies of this book were printed, 70% of the sheets were destroyed and only 300
copies were bound and sold); not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis-Smith 196.
[$300-400]
97 SCHULER, Phillip Frederick Edward
Australia in Arms. A Narrative of the Australian Imperial Force
and their Achievement at Anzac
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1916. Octavo, 328 pages with 4 maps plus
a small map, 4 folding maps and 32 pages of plates.
Gilt-pictorial cloth a little bumped at the extremities; endpapers
offset; edges foxed, with a little scattered foxing elsewhere; an
excellent copy with the publisher’s ‘Presentation Copy’ blind-stamp
on the title leaf.
The author was ‘Special War Correspondent of The Age, Melbourne’
(of which his father was the editor). He ‘volunteered to write reports
and take photographs for the newspaper during the Gallipoli
campaign. He documented with evocative accounts and remarkable
photography the entire experience. Less subject to censorship than
the official correspondent C.E.W. Bean, he exposed flaws in the
campaign, particularly the scandal of British treatment of wounded’
(Melbourne Press Club website). He later enlisted in the AIF, and died aged 28 on 23 June 1917 of wounds ‘after Messines’
(from his obituary by Charles Bean). His was the first full published account of Australia’s role in the Dardanelles
Campaign. His lengthy obituary, clipped from the Australasian Journalist (15 July 1917), is mounted on the front
flyleaf. The ownership signature of Guy Innes is written in ink on the half-title. Guy Innes (1879-1953), an Australian
journalist, was the editor of the Herald in Melbourne from 1918 to 1921 (when he was replaced by Keith Murdoch).
For the next ‘30 years no Australian journalist in Fleet street has been better known’, according to his obituary in the
Advertiser (18 February 1953). Dornbusch 364; Fielding and O’Neill, page 254.
[$300-400]
MEMOIRS
98 SILAS, Ellis
Crusading at Anzac. Anno Domini 1915. Pictured and described by Signaller Ellis Silas, a Soldier Artist serving
with the Australian Expeditionary Force. Forewords by Sir Ian Hamilton ... and Sir William Birdwood ...
London, The British-Australasian, 1916. Large oblong octavo, [88] pages (first and last pages blank) with a portrait
illustration of the author (from a photograph) and 40 full-page illustrations.
Two-colour pictorial front wrapper with later plain spine and rear wrapper; front cover slightly marked and creased,
with minimal expert conservation; first leaf a little foxed, marked and creased; minor signs of age and use; essentially
a very good copy with an early ownership surname signature (‘Lilley’) in pencil on the front cover.
Ellis Luciano Silas (1885-1972), born in London, was the son of an artist and designer. He studied under Walter Sickert
in his father’s studio. In 1907, he came to Australia where he settled in Perth. In 1914, Silas joined the 16th Battalion,
which was thrown into action after dark on 25 April 1915 at Pope’s Hill and Quinn’s Post and a week later at the
ominously named Bloody Angle. In two weeks there were 605 casualties, leaving only 9 officers and 298 other ranks.
Silas was a signaller, a notoriously dangerous occupation, as the signaller had to send his semaphore signals standing.
The 16th Battalion’s historian, Captain Cyril Longmore, noted in The Old Sixteenth (1929) that by 3 May ‘the signallers
were reduced to almost an unworkable proposition’. Small wonder that after three weeks Silas was evacuated, suffering
shell-shock. In this book Silas gives the reader his personal odyssey, with the first eight illustrations describing the
voyage out and street scenes in Cairo. Most of the illustrations record his experience at Gallipoli, from the Landing
on 25 April until his admission to hospital in Heliopolis three weeks later. His series of drawings, worked up from
sketches on the spot, was published the following year with accompanying comments. Many of the drawings show
something of what it was like to be fighting in three of the most deadly places, then being evacuated on the transport
Galeka, the decks of which were lined with wounded. Silas was able to walk, and was on duty for the whole voyage,
assisting those who could not. He collapsed as soon as he was put aboard the hospital train from Alexandria to Cairo
and in the care of Indian hospital orderlies. This book was one of the first ‘to record the war by an individual soldier,
and one of the earliest first-hand accounts of the Gallipoli campaign’ (Jonathan Wantrup). It quickly went into a
second impression; both versions are rare. Dornbusch 365; Fielding and O’Neill, page 254. [$500-700]
99 TILTON, May
The Grey Battalion
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1933. Octavo, [xvi], 310, [2] (list of abbreviations, colophon) pages plus 9 pages of
plates.
Cloth; edges foxed, with occasional light scattered foxing elsewhere; a fine copy with the lightly chipped dustwrapper.
The war experiences of the author, ‘Nursing Sister with the AIF, 1915-18’. She was attached to the 1st Australian General
Hospital, at Heliopolis from January 1915 to March 1916, then in France. Inscribed and signed ‘Very sincerely yours,
May Tilton 1934’ in ink on the flyleaf (not to be confused with the facsimile signed inscription on the frontispiece).
The contemporary name-stamp of W. Koenig is also present. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 233. [$260-400]
MEMOIRS
100 WHITE, Thomas Walter
Guests of the Unspeakable. The Odyssey of an Australian Airman. Being a Record of Captivity and Escape in
Turkey
London, John Hamilton, 1928 [first edition]. Octavo, 320 pages plus 18 pages of plates and a three-colour folding map.
Cloth a little bumped, flecked and marked; flyleaves offset; edges foxed, with light scattered foxing elsewhere; trifling
signs of use; a very good copy. The inscription on the front flyleaf is endearing: ‘Presented to the Braille Library
with the author’s compliments. Thomas W. White. South Yarra. 2.11.28’. In November 1915, while serving with the
Australian Flying Corps in Mesopotamia, Thomas White was forced to land behind enemy lines. He was captured,
but eventually escaped and stowed away on a ship to Odessa. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 257. [$150-200]
101 WOODWARD, Captain Oliver Holmes
The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward, Captain, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial
Force. This Story has been written for Private Circulation only. [My Story of the Great War (cover title)]
Adelaide, ‘Wholly reproduced by MacDougalls Limited’ [for the Author], [1932]. Quarto, [viii], 171 pages of processed
typescript with 6 groups of illustrations plus an illustration, 4 maps hand-coloured in outline and a detailed ‘Plan of
Hill 60 Mining System’ (with line hand-colouring in eight different colours).
Original blue cloth with a large pictorial paper title-label mounted on the front cover (then varnished, with the
varnish now breaking down a little); short split to the cloth in the gutter of the rear hinge; essentially a fine copy, now
housed in a custom-made clamshell box.
The 2010 film, ‘Beneath Hill 60’, has made common knowledge of the events covered in detail in the autobiography of
the chief protagonist, Captain Oliver Holmes Woodward MC and 2 Bars (1885-1966). The book was self-published in
1932 primarily for his family, in what can only have been a very small quantity (not least, because of the limitations of
the technology used to produce it). In any event, it is utterly rare on the open market, let alone inscribed and signed
as this copy is: ‘To Miss Beryl Cocker, In appreciation of your assistance in checking my manuscript & editing the
original proofs. O.H. Woodward, Port Pirie, Nov 16th 1932’. Dornbusch 344; not in Fielding and O’Neill (but see page
235); not in Trigellis-Smith. [$3000-4000]
MEMOIRS
Commemoration
102 The Age Special. Monday [17 May 1915], 10.30 a.m. Australia’s Roll of Honor. 17th Casualty List. Officer Dies
of Wounds, Three Seriously Ill. Others, 32 Died of Wounds, 13 Dangerously Ill, 22 Dangerously Wounded, 244
Wounded [drop title]
Melbourne, ‘Printed and Published by Thomas Prosser for David Syme and Co., at Collins-street, Melbourne’, [17 May
1915]. A tabloid broadside (355 × 285 mm), printed on newsprint in four columns (recto only).
Acidic paper a little unevenly tanned; a few short marginal tears expertly sealed; one crease across the middle; small
light tidemark to one corner; a very good copy now housed in a Mylar sleeve with an acid-free support.
Of the utmost rarity—an extraordinarily ephemeral printing to have survived. ‘The Defence Department, Melbourne,
began issuing numbered casualty lists on 30 April 1915 as details were received of the fighting at Gallipoli from GHQ
at Imbros. “When Australia hears the news of the casualties among the boys,” wrote the Salvation Army chaplain
William McKenzie in unadorned but direct words, “she will be one big sob.” No-one had expected it to be as bad as
this. On 24 May, two lists were issued, the 20th and 21st. By the end of 1915, there were 128 lists. On 3 December 1918,
The Argus grimly commented that that day’s list, the 450th, would be the last. However, there were twelve more. The
462nd list was published on 1 April 1919 as men continued to succumb from illness and wounds. This list contains 315
names of men who had died of wounds and others who were wounded. Some had died soon after the fighting began.
The most recent was Captain A.G. McGuire, who died on 7 May. The list was published in The Argus on Tuesday 18
May, but its rival, The Age, secured a brilliant coup by printing copies and issuing them gratis the day before’ (Stuart
Braga). [$400-500]
103 The AIF March through London on Anzac Day 1919. Illustrating the March through London of the Australian
Imperial Force on Anzac Day and on May 3 (March of Overseas Forces) [cover title]
London, The Rosebery Press, 1919. Quarto, [iii] (advertisements, including the inside front cover), 16, [4]
(advertisements, including both sides of the rear wrapper) pages with 14 pages of illustrations (from photographs),
including a centrefold panorama.
Pictorial wrappers (with the front cover illustration by Fred Leist); staples replaced with archival thread; an excellent
copy, albeit lightly creased vertically where folded. Inscribed at the head of the first page to ‘Lil with lots of Love, Bill.
Fovant Camp 8/6/19’ (at that stage, an AIF demobilisation camp). The Times is quoted early on: ‘The Anzacs are more
popular with a London crowd than they are with the enemy, and their march was a great success. The City of London
paid them the unique compliment of granting them permission to march through the City with fixed bayonets’. Not
in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$100-200]
COMMEMORATION
104 The All-Australia Memorial (New South Wales [and
South Australian] Edition). A Historical Record of
National Effort during the Great War. Australia’s
Roll of Honour. History, Heroes and Helpers ...
Foreword by Senator the Hon. George Foster Pearce
... Introductory Narrative by E. Ashmead-Bartlett
Melbourne, British-Australasian Publishing Service, 1919
[revised edition]/ 1917 (printed at the foot of the spine,
with the Foreword dated March 1917). Quarto, 1-8, [4]
(comprising a dedication poem, tipped-in portrait of
the King, tipped-in portrait of Governor-General Sir
Ronald Ferguson, and portrait of the Governor of NSW,
Sir Walter Davidson), 9-252, 96, [144], [155]-158 (index)
pages with ‘over 1,000 Double-tone Illustrations’ plus a
large folding frontispiece (comprising 2 panoramas of
Mena Camp, Egypt) and 30 plates tipped in or mounted
on stiff card (2 large folding panoramas, a folding map,
6 folding plates, and 20 single-page plates including 8
plates each featuring 4 group portraits).
Gilt-decorated dark purple cloth, all edges gilt; cloth
lightly unevenly faded on the front and rear covers,
with the spine a little sunned and very lightly worn at
the extremities; slight marginal discolouration to the
pages adjacent to the card mounts; overall an excellent
copy, with the contents in very fine condition (this is rare in our experience, as the tipped-in plates and very large
panoramas seem to be designed to be accidentally torn). Mounted within the decorative border printed on the recto
of the stiff card to which the frontispiece is attached, is an official four-page ACMF card with an original gelatin silver
portrait photograph (125 × 85 mm) and printed service details of Captain Alfred E. Gifford (‘Appointed Chaplain for
Home Service’ at the camps in the greater Adelaide area). Also included are service details of his two sons, Lieutenant
A.S.H. Gifford DCM and Sergeant Eric H. Gifford. Another original gelatin silver portrait photograph (125 × 80 mm)
is mounted facing page 49, on a page designed for the purpose (on card printed in colour with a blank picture frame);
it is presumably one of the sons, possibly Eric.
In spite of ‘New South Wales Edition’ in the title, the more easily revised Editor’s Preface (page 10) states that ‘this
edition is necessarily confined to the volunteers from New South Wales and South Australia. Originally framed
with special reference to the Gallipoli Campaign, the later deeds of Australia’s splendid army in France, Belgium,
and in Palestine have been recorded in the present edition’ brought down to November 1918. Part II of the book,
‘Australia’s Fighting Families’, contains service details and/or portraits of many thousands of soldiers. It commences
with ‘Some of Australia’s Fighting Families’ (96 pages on NSW soldiers), and concludes with nine 16-page sections
(lettered A to I) on South Australian soldiers. Dornbusch 218 (incorrectly calling it The All-Australian Memorial,
and noting only the ‘Victorian edition’ of 1917, with ‘Editor-in-chief: Harry Blyth Manderson’; All (The) Australian
Memorial is listed in the index as item 204, which is in fact an edition of the Anzac Memorial); not in Fielding and
O’Neill. We have examined dozens of copies of this title, and scarcely one resembles another; it is clearly a headache
for bibliographers and cataloguers alike, but it is an underrated resource deserving of a bibliography of its own.
The only edition we have identified that lists Manderson as editor-in-chief (indeed, that mentions him at all) is the
‘Victorian Edition’ of 1917, the true first edition. It also includes a two-page preface by him (pages 9 and 10), which is
much more informative than the shorter, unsigned versions in later editions. The first edition contains Part II, ‘Anzac
Honoured Dead. A Lexicographical Roll of Victorian Soldiers who Died on Service During the Period August, 1914
December, 1916’ ([ii], 24 pages), and Part IV, ‘Regimental Register. Comprising the Principal Victorian Units of the
Australian “Imperial and Naval and Military Expeditionary Forces ...”’ (154 pages). These sections do not appear
in later editions, something foreshadowed in Manderson’s preface: ‘After the Evacuation of Gallipoli (December,
1915), the reorganisation and fusion of units caused many of them to lose their former State individuality, creating
insuperable problems of compilation’. [$600-800]
COMMEMORATION
105 Anzac Day
In Memoriam. Anzac Day, April 25th, 1916 [cover title]
[Sydney, Returned Soldiers’ Association] (printed by S.T. Leigh and Company), 1916. Quarto, [8] pages with 2
illustrations by Sydney Ure Smith plus text and an illustration on the covers.
Pictorial card covers with a flap on the rear one; minimal light foxing to the text; essentially a fine copy.
‘Souvenir, chiefly poetry, produced by Frank Morton for the first anniversary of Anzac day [sic]’ (Trove). The twopage introduction, presumably by Morton, is followed by verse contributions by David McKee Wright, Arthur Henry
Adams and Morton. The inside rear cover lists RSA officials, the rear flap is printed with the poem ‘The Good Deed’
by Whittier, the front cover is illustrated by Sydney Ure Smith, and the inside front cover carries an interesting and
lengthy note of apology from Frank Morton. ‘This souvenir has been produced very hastily. Time did not serve
to make it larger, more representative.... There has been no time for much thought or elaboration. With scarce a
moment’s leisure we have done what we could’. [$100-200]
106 Anzac Day. April 25th 1919 Souvenir Programme. Australian Base Depots, France [cover title]. Anzac Day
Sports held at Australian Base Depots, Rouelles, April 25th 1919 ...
[Rouelles?, probably in-house], 1919. Large octavo, 8 pages plus a plate (verso and conjugate leaf blank) showing the
‘Canteen, Concert, Educational and Service Huts presented by The People of Mildura, Victoria, Western Australian
Civil Servants, and El Dorado, New South Wales’.
Colour pictorial card covers lightly mottled on the blank inner surfaces; a fine copy.
The beautifully-produced cover carries the imprint of Raphael Tuck and Sons, London, at the rear. The centrepiece of
the front cover is by the (South) Australian artist John Charles Goodchild, at that stage a twenty year-old private in
the 9th Field Ambulance. It depicts a French woman with the Tricolour around her waist, handing a Digger a wreath
with a banner ‘Victoria et Pax’. By way of contrast, the rear cover features a series of vignette sketches of life awaiting
demobilisation. These include an Australian soldier attempting to chat up an attractive local girl: the caption ‘No
Compree’ clearly applies to both of them. [$150-200]
107 Anzac Day. Combined Commemoration Service of the Landing at Gallipoli and in Memory of Fallen Heroes.
In the Outer Domain, Sydney. Tuesday, April 25th, 1916, at 12 noon [cover title]
[Sydney, No Publisher], 1916. A leaflet (250 × 158 mm), [4] pages, comprising the title page and three pages of the
Form of Service.
Minimal expert conservation to the bottom margin; in excellent condition.
Prayers were offered by the Reverend William Pearson, President of the Methodist Conference; the Lesson was read
by the Right Reverend R. Scott West, Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly; and the Address was by His Grace the
[Anglican] Primate of Australia. A rare memento of the first anniversary of Anzac Day. [$100-200]
108 Anzac Memorial. PEARCE, Henry W. (editor)
Anzac Memorial
Sydney, New South Wales Branch, Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, September 1919 (Peace
Edition)/ 1916. Octavo, 272, i-xlviii, 273-609 pages with 6 small maps, 12 vignette illustrations, 45 pages of illustrations
(nearly all from photographs), 48 pages of Rolls of Honour inserted by businesses and organizations (41 of them with
illustrations of their Honour Boards, 6 reproduced in colour), and 48 pages of advertisements, plus a tipped-in colour
frontispiece (HMA Hospital Ship Karoola).
Original padded gilt-decorated purple suede, all edges lightly marbled, with patterned endpapers; leather a little
sunned on the spine and lightly marked; occasional light foxing; leading margin of the first few leaves very lightly
chipped; an excellent copy.
The third edition, in the publisher’s deluxe binding, as issued. The illustrations include ‘Scenes of Anzac, Palestine
and France’ (24 pages containing 59 illustrations) and 21 pages of assorted portraits and views. The Roll of Honour of
‘Soldiers & Sailors, Officers and Men of the Australasian Imperial Expeditionary Forces Died on Service from August
4th, 1914 to June 30th, 1919’ is now 266 pages long (214 pages in 1917, and only 28 pages in 1916). Dornbusch 207; Fielding
and O’Neill, page 239 (1917 edition only). [$300-400]
COMMEMORATION
109 Anzac Memorial. STEPHENS, Alfred George (editor)
Anzac Memorial [NSW Anzac Memorial (half title)]
Sydney, Returned Soldiers Association of New South Wales, 25 April 1916 [first edition, (‘Subscribers’ Edition’)].
Octavo, 304, [32] (blank) pages printed on art paper with 2 full-page illustrations and a page of verse with a large
pictorial border (from sketches), 23 pages of illustrations (from photographs), a Roll of Honour (28 pages), and a large
section of advertisements (pages 225-283).
Original padded full red morocco printed in gilt, retaining the original colour wrappers (with advertising on three
panels); cloth inner hinges (as issued); all edges gilt; leather lightly sunned, mottled and scuffed; inner surfaces of the
flyleaves and the adjacent binder’s blank leaves a little foxed; bottom corner of the leaves in the middle of the book
lightly bumped; an excellent copy.
The ‘Subscribers’ Edition’ (later referred to as the ‘Edition de Luxe’). The illustrations comprise a frontispiece portrait
of ‘Matron I. Gould, Australian Nursing Service’ (in fact, it is Ellen Julia [Nellie] Gould); a Gallery of Honour (4
pages, with 28 portraits); ‘Scenes of Anzac’ (12 pages containing 40 illustrations); 2 views of Mena Camp, 3 portraits
(Birdwood, Godley and Legge), and a small image of HMS Queen Elizabeth. The Roll of Honour is of ‘Officers and
Men, Soldiers and Sailors, of the Australasian Imperial Expeditionary Forces (New South Wales) Died on Service and
Missing from August 4th, 1914 to February 15th, 1916’. The Editor’s Note (on page [300]) contains significant variations
from the khaki cloth-bound version of the first edition. It no longer includes the paragraph describing the different
editions, nor is it dated (let alone incorrectly as before—‘25 April, 1915’). The last paragraph now commences ‘Blank
pages at the end of copies of the Subscribers’ Edition’ (no longer ‘Superior Editions’). Two of the original seven
paragraphs are omitted, and all but one contain changes. Other variations noticed in passing occur in the third
paragraph of the preface (‘of plan or execution’ has been inserted after ‘whatever defect’), and ‘From the Diary of
Private Cavill’, by ‘Pte H.W. Cavill’ (pages 284-299) is now by ‘Pte Cavell’, with the name changed incorrectly to Cavell
every time it appears. Contemporary publicity material describes this as the Subscribers’ Edition ‘in morocco, boxed,
with additional material and separate map’, priced at two guineas. This copy comes complete with the separatelyissued map (described in detail below). This copy is numbered (S 22) and initialled on the verso of the flyleaf by the
editor, A.G. Stephens, in his characteristic purple ink. The upper limit to this edition is not stated, but not more than
200 copies would seem likely. Dornbusch (probably) 205; Fielding and O’Neill, page 239 (1917 edition only). The
rarely-seen map (680 × 500 mm printed surface) is ‘5th Edition. Dardanelles. Sea of Marmara. Bosporus’ by H.E.C.
Robinson of Sydney. It is a detailed map printed in two colours on paper, mounted (uncut) on linen, folded, and
cased in publisher’s red cloth boards (205 × 130 mm) with the title printed in black on the front panel: ‘Map of the
Dardanelles to accompany Anzac Memorial’. The early ownership signature ‘Laura Cull’ is written in ink inside the
front cover. The small amount of linen backing exposed when the map is folded is a little foxed, and there is a tiny split
to the map at an intersecting fold now expertly sealed; overall it is in fine condition. Dornbusch 204; not in Fielding
and O’Neill. [$1000-1200]
COMMEMORATION
110 Anzac Memorial Day 25th April 1919 [cover title]
Melbourne, Victorian Branch of the Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Imperial League of Australia, 1919. Quarto, [8]
pages plus the colour pictorial wrappers; 7 pages, including the inside front wrapper, contain 42 illustrations (from
photographs).
Wrappers expertly rehinged; staples now replaced with archival thread; edges lightly chipped; scattered foxing; a very
good copy.
A sobering souvenir of the first post-war Anzac Day celebrated in Melbourne. The two-page introduction by G.R.
Palmer, Victorian President of the RSSILA, tends not to gild the lily either: ‘To-day we are at peace, or at least such a
peace as can be made when a Nation has been shattered and broken from within, as is the case of unhappy Russia’.
[$100-200]
111 Anzac Souvenir
Adelaide, State War Council, 1916. Octavo, 48 pages with 18 illustrations (after photographs).
Colour pictorial wrappers; spine expertly reinforced on the plain verso; an excellent copy.
‘This Booklet is published as an Official Record of the Celebrations held in Adelaide on Tuesday, April 25th, 1916 ... to
Commemorate the Landing ... on Gallipoli Peninsula ... Reports of proceedings printed herein are taken from the
Adelaide Daily Press’. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$200-300]
112 Australian Light Horse. SCRYMGEOUR, James Tindal Steuart
Echoes of the Australian Light Horse in Egypt and Palestine, 1917-1918
Warwick, Warwick Daily News, [1954]. Duodecimo, 50 pages with a portrait illustration of the author (from a
photograph).
Light card covers a little stained (mainly at the rear) and unevenly sunned; the name ‘Kingsbury’ is written in ink on
the front cover; a very good copy (internally fine).
Verse accounts of ‘incidents of Regimental happenings ... scribbled in his spare time’ by James Scrymgeour, a member
of B Troop, B Squadron, Queensland Second Light Horse. He lost his sight in the battle at Museleba in mid-July 1918—
and more than 36 years later, he signed the blank page facing his portrait in blue ballpoint pen (not to be confused
with his black printed signature on page 5). Dornbusch 401. [$260-400]
113 The Australians’ Fine Record. The Battle of Amiens and After. How the German Tide was Turned [The
Australian’s Fine Record ... (cover title)]
London, AIF Publications Section, [1918]. Small octavo, 40 pages.
Pictorial wrappers a little creased, with a few tears expertly sealed, and a small rear corner piece reinstated; overall an
excellent copy of a rare item.
The first page sets the pace: ‘For brilliance and boldness of conception, for skill in execution, for efficiency in
organisation, for capable staff work, for bravery and resource on the part of the rank and file, it is doubtful any other
military operation in the war bears adequate comparison’. Dornbusch 286; Fielding and O’Neill, page 207; TrigellisSmith 181. [$200-300]
114 Australia’s First Naval Fight, November 1914 [cover title]
Melbourne, Keystone Printing Co., [1914]. Large oblong octavo, 16 pages with a small map and 6 illustrations (from
photographs).
Two-colour pictorial wrappers (with artwork by Jim Hannan; the colophon is printed on the outside rear); covers and
a few leaves a little creased, marked and chipped; overall a decent copy.
COMMEMORATION
A souvenir of the battle between HMAS Sydney and the German cruiser SMS Emden, run aground on North Keeling
Island after being severely damaged, ‘outranged and outclassed’. Two pages contain the Roll of Honor (four dead,
twelve wounded), and the ‘List of Officers and Australian Crew’ of HMAS Sydney. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding
and O’Neill. [$150-200]
115 BARTLETT, Ashmead [Ellis ASHMEAD-BARTLETT]
An Account of the Landing of our Australian Heroes at the Dardanelles. 25th April, 1915 [cover title]
Perth, The Presbytery of Perth (printed by Barclay and Sharland), [1915]. 227 × 95 mm (external dimensions), [8]
pages.
Three-colour ribbon-bound overlapping pictorial title-wrappers lightly creased, with a few tiny edge tears expertly
sealed; an excellent copy.
The first page commences thus: ‘Thrilling Story of Australian Valor. Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, one of the correspondents
permitted to accompany the fleet to the Dardanelles, was aboard a warship with five hundred Australians, who formed
the covering party for the landing of Gaba Tepe. He supplies a thrilling account of the landing operations’. An early
reprint of Ashmead-Bartlett’s despatch, the first to be received in Australia (appearing in newspapers on 8 May). We
have previously handled a slightly variant copy printed at the Bathurst Times Office, presumably for local distribution.
Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$200-300]
116 BEAN, Charles Edwin Woodrow
In Your Hands, Australians
London, Cassell, November 1918. Octavo, 96 pages.
Later cloth, retaining the original pictorial wrappers; light creases to the bottom margin of a few early leaves; minimal
foxing; light pencil emphases in the margins of six pages; an excellent copy.
‘We have done with the Great War. We are facing peace. This small book has been written to help the men of the AIF
and the young people of Australia, in the trying period after the war, to fill their spare time with a thought or two of
what we can all do for Australia in the long peace which many who will not return have helped to win’ (introduction).
Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 241. [$300-400]
117 CRAMP, Karl Reginald
Australian Winners of the Victoria Cross. A Record of the Deeds that
won the Decoration during the Great War, 1914-1919.... Compiled
from the Official Records ...
Sydney, McCarron Stewart, 1919. Octavo, [80] pages with numerous
illustrations (‘It is the first publication to contain a full set of the
photographs of the sixty-three Australian heroes’).
Colour pictorial wrappers; two tiny tears to the leading edge of the front
cover (and three early leaves) expertly sealed; a fine copy. Dornbusch 215;
Fielding and O’Neill, page 243.
[$200-300]
COMMEMORATION
COMMEMORATION
118 The Digger
A solid brass statuette of an archetypal Digger of the First AIF in France
This beautifully detailed and very striking figure stands on a small integral plinth (overall maximum dimensions
approximately 230 × 60 × 57 mm, weighing a very healthy 2 kilograms); the shouldered rifle was produced separately
and is attached with the original screw; the barrel of the rifle is slightly bent, and a small, relatively inaccessible,
portion of the casting under the left arm is neither smooth nor polished (as produced); in short, it is in excellent
original condition.
To all intents and purposes, this is an unrecorded French statuette of a First AIF infantryman. He is instantly
recognizable in his slouch hat, the Rising Sun badge clearly delineated on the upturned brim. Much research has been
undertaken since this item was purchased serendipitously in France in 2011, but military historians and art experts
alike (to say nothing of the extraordinary reach of the internet) have not been able to throw any definitive light on the
subject. The artist remains stubbornly anonymous, and although there is consensus on the likely date of his creation,
it is no narrower than ‘post-war to mid-1930s’, a period which saw a flurry of commemoration and the inauguration
of any number of public statues and monuments.
That he is a Frenchman is not seriously questioned: the anomaly of the water bottle slung on the Digger’s right hip
is an obvious clue (it is of classic French design, completely unlike the squarer bottles of the AIF). The Imperial
War Museum has noted a series of additional small but significant details about the statuette which all point to the
likelihood that it is indeed made by a French artist, not quite familiar with the nuances of AIF uniforms. For example,
the breeches have a slightly odd cut; the shirt (with collar and breast pocket) seems unusual; the size of the kit seems
slightly off; and the Lee-Enfield rifle is also slightly off-key (more in tune with details of the French M1886/93 rifle).
However, there was one key point of agreement among all of the experts consulted: none of them has seen another
example of this statuette, or indeed anything quite like it. The upshot is that basic questions such as who made it,
when, and for what purpose (a one-off, a prototype, perhaps a maquette?) as yet remain unanswered. Anything is
possible, given the tremendous affection the French had for the Diggers. The statuette, standing silently with his
sleeves informally rolled up, speaks eloquently in his own defence. (All of the research material assembled by Patrick
Walters is being offered with the statuette).
[$8000-12000]
COMMEMORATION
119 DOWNING, Walter Hubert
Digger Dialects. A Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service
Melbourne, Lothian Book Publishing Company, 1 December 1919. Small octavo, 60 pages.
Pictorial card covers slightly sunned and cracked on the spine; early name-stamp (W.E. Pearce) on a few pages; an
excellent copy.
Walter Hubert Downing (‘Late 57th Battalion’) writes in his illuminating introduction that the book ‘is a by-product
of the collective imagination of the A.I.F. Australian slang is not a new thing; but in those iron years it was modified
beyond recognition by the assimilation of foreign words, and the formulae of novel or exotic ideas’. Downing fought
on the Western Front, and was awarded the MM (Polygon Wood, 1917); his autobiographical narrative, To the Last
Ridge, was published in 1920. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 245. [$150-200]
120 ESNAULT, Gaston
Le Poilu tel qu’il se parle. Dictionnaire des Termes populaires récents et neufs employés aux Armées en 19141918. Etudiés dans leur Etymologie, leur Développement et leur Usage
Paris, Editions Bossard, 1919. Small octavo, 603, [3] (blank, colophon, blank) pages.
Wrappers; all edges uncut; paper slightly tanned; a fine copy of a fragile production.
A substantial compilation of French slang from the war years, but it’s obvious the author didn’t run into too many
Diggers in the course of his field work. The only pertinent reference to catch our eye is ‘saucisson d’Australie, m.,
Viande roulée en cylindre sous une gaze protectrice’, but frankly, that doesn’t quite ‘couper la moutarde’. [$100-200]
121 Farewell March of the Australian Troops. London, 25th April 1919 [cover title]. The Australians [sic] Farewell
March [first line of text]
London, Harrison and Sons (for the General Officer Commanding the Australian Imperial Forces), 1919. Small
quarto, [12] pages, comprising pictorial cover (verso blank), 8 pages printed in green within attractive gold borders of
eucalypts in the Art Nouveau style (2 pages of text, 4 pages with good detail of the order of the march, a page on the
route, last page without text), and the rear cover (recto blank, with the colophon on the verso).
Green and gold pictorial wrappers a little foxed (confined mainly to the rear cover); trifling signs of handling; an
excellent copy.
The very attractive official programme of the final Anzac Day March by Australian soldiers in London. The march was
led by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 204. + Five related gelatin
silver photographic postcards: two are captioned ‘Australian Troops March Through London’ (Beagles’ Postcards 165E
and 165F); three are captioned ‘Victory March through London, 3rd May 1919’ (Beagles’ Postcards 165H, 165J and 165O).
Minor paper residue on the versos where removed from a mount, otherwise in fine condition. [$200-300]
COMMEMORATION
122 For Empire. Australia’s Rally to the Dear Old Flag. Roll of Honor. New South Wales. First Expeditionary Force
to the Motherland [cover title]. Souvenir of the First Expeditionary Force ... to go to the Seat of War
[Melbourne, Osboldstone and Co.], 1914. Large oblong octavo, [32] pages with numerous illustrations (from
photographs).
Colour-pictorial wrappers; front cover a little sunned and marked near the spine, with the top edge slightly chipped;
trifling signs of use; a very good copy. The Roll of Honor of ‘New South Wales’ Contingent of First Expeditionary
Force to go to the Front’ lists over 6000 officers and men (12 pages). Rare and important. Not in Dornbusch; not in
Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis-Smith 191. [$200-300]
123 For Empire. Australia’s Rally to the Dear Old Flag. Roll of Honor. Victoria’s First Expeditionary Force to the
Motherland [cover title]
Melbourne, Osboldstone and Co., [1914]. Large oblong octavo, [i] (introduction printed on the inside front cover),
[32] pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs) plus the colophon on the outside rear cover.
Colour-pictorial card covers a little foxed; spine expertly reinforced, with the staples now replaced with archival
thread; an excellent copy.
The Roll of Honor of ‘Victoria’s Contingent of First Expeditionary Force to go to the Front’ lists some 6700 officers
and men (11 pages). Even more significantly, the illustrations include 200 identified portraits of officers, surely nearly
all of them. Rare and important. The early signature of J.K. Fethers is written in indelible pencil on the front cover.
16471 Private James Keith Fethers had just turned fifteen when war was declared; he enlisted in December 1917.
124 Gallipoli
The War Graves of the British Empire. The Register of the Names of those who fell in the Great War and are
buried ... [at Anzac, Gallipoli]
London, Imperial War Graves Commission, 1925 to 1927. Quarto, four volumes, ranging from 44-70 pages, with maps
and plans plus a full-page colour ‘Map of Anzac Area’ in each one.
Wrappers; in excellent condition.
These sobering records are not a mere alphabetical list of names, but a detailed biographical register of men who died
and were buried at Anzac, Gallipoli—cemetery after cemetery after cemetery. One sample record from the Lone Pine
Cemetery will suffice: ‘TAUSE, Pte. Hector Algie, 875. 5th Bn. Australian Inf. Killed in action 25th April, 1915. Age 21.
Son of Hector and Jeannie Tause. Native of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, N. 30’. The four volumes present are Gallipoli
7-13 (Lone Pine, Quinn’s Post, The Nek, Baby 700, Walker’s Ridge, Chunuk Bair, and The Farm cemeteries); Gallipoli
16-20 (Hill 60, 7th Field Ambulance, Embarkation Pier, No. 2 Outpost, and New Zealand No. 2 Outpost cemeteries);
Gallipoli 21-25 (Plugge’s Plateau, Shell Green, Johnston’s Jolly, 4th Battalion Parade Ground, Courtney’s and Steel’s [sic]
Post cemeteries); and Gallipoli 28-31 (Canterbury, Ari Burnu, Beach, and Shrapnel Valley cemeteries). These four
constitute the complete record of Anzac cemeteries; other volumes in the series record cemeteries at Helles. Not in
Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 220. [$200-300]
COMMEMORATION
125 The Great War, 1914-1918. With the Compliments of The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd. Distinguishing Badges
of the Australian Imperial Force [details at the head and foot of a poster]
Melbourne, The Herald and Weekly Times, 1919. 570 × 430 mm, a full-colour poster (printed recto only on semi-gloss
paper) featuring 250 colour patches.
Minor restoration to short splits along a few folds, with trifling infill in two small spots; an excellent copy of a very
rare ephemeral printing. Issued as a supplement to The Weekly Times, 5 April 1919. Trove records only one copy, in the
State Library of New South Wales. + A fine copy of the facsimile edition (with very indifferent colour) reproduced by
the Royal Australian Survey Corps in 1990 (which mentions an earlier version reproduced for Anzac Day, 1981). [2
items]. [$200-300]
126 HANNAM, Sergeant-Major Horace Henry
Souvenir Guide of South Australia’s Fighting Men of the AIF. The History,
Achievements and Colors [sic] of the Various Units [cover title]
[Adelaide], Citizens and Business Men’s Committee, 1919. 180 × 80 mm, 100 pages with
26 printed colour patches of South Australian units and numerous advertisements plus
advertisements on the covers.
Overlapping colour pictorial wrappers printed in green and gold; a few trifling tears to the
edges expertly sealed; tiny chip and ink marks to the first leaf; an excellent copy. A very
attractive publication, rarely seen on the open market. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and
O’Neill, page 247.
[$400-600]
COMMEMORATION
127 [HAY, Ian, and others]
St Barnabas 1926. Gallipoli – Salonika
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1926]. Oblong quarto, 40 pages with 50 illustrations (from photographs).
Gilt-decorated cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities, with minor wear to the foot of the spine; endpapers
foxed and offset; top corner bumped throughout; a very good copy.
The official book on the Gallipoli pilgrimage of 1926, containing a series of short articles by journalists who attended
the various events relating to the pilgrimage. The St Barnabas Society was formed in 1919 with the express intention
of arranging for the families of dead soldiers to be able to visit their graves. Most of the early tours were to France, but
in 1926 this much more ambitious tour took place. The list of nearly three hundred passengers is printed at the rear; it
includes Major John Hay Beith CBE MC, who is much better-known under his pen-name, Ian Hay. Loosely inserted
are a number of pertinent newspaper clippings. Some of them are annotated (along the lines of ‘Not accurate—I
was there’, and ‘I met her [Agneta Beauchamp] in 1917 after leaving hospital for a convalescence on the Aquitania’).
Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. + A copy of Ian Hay’s popular account of the pilgrimage, The Ship of
Remembrance. Gallipoli – Salonika (London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1926]; a very good copy with the dustwrapper).
Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 247. [2 items]. [$100-200]
128 HMAT Port Sydney. GARLAND, Lieutenant Hugh Gordon (editor)
The Limber Log, 1917
London, Cassell, [1918]. Quarto, 52, [4] (‘An Appreciation’ plus 3 blank ‘Memoranda’) pages with 30 illustrations
(many by H.H. Chappel, who appears in the Roll of Honour on page 47 as Gunner H.H. Chappell).
Pictorial card covers lightly chipped and rubbed at the extremities, and a little foxed and tanned (as is the acidic text
paper); light vertical crease throughout (a little more pronounced on the front cover, which has now been stabilised);
a very good copy. A souvenir of the voyage of the troopship HMAT A15 Port Sydney, which left Melbourne on 9
November 1917 ‘carrying 1200 Field Artillery Reinforcements and about 300 of other units’. It arrived at Southampton
on 4 January 1918. Most Australian library records mistakenly give the name of the ship as Utopia, taking their cue
from an obviously satirical piece on page 22. They could be forgiven for using her previous name, Star of England; it
was changed in 1916. Dornbusch 239 (giving the date of publication as 1917); not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$200-300]
129 HOPE, Stanton
Gallipoli Revisited. An Account of the Duchess of Richmond Pilgrimage-Cruise ...
London, The Author, [1934]. Quarto, [ii] (blank), 64 pages with a few vignettes and 3 maps plus 70 plates (on 22 pages)
and the colophon leaf at the rear.
Overlapping two-colour card covers slightly water-stained on the spine and a little rubbed and bumped at the
extremities; minimal light scattered foxing; an excellent copy. The verso of the initial blank leaf is signed by the author
(as W.E. Stanton Hope). A well-illustrated chronicle of the 1934 voyage ‘of a shipload of pilgrims to cemeteries which,
to the outward eye, are all that is now left of the most wonderful military adventure the world has ever seen’ (from the
three-page foreword by General Sir Ian Hamilton). The best of the plates are worth the price of the book ... The author
was a Gallipoli veteran (he served in the Royal Naval Division), and two photographs in which he appears show him
in 1915 ‘after eight days in the front lines during the dysentery season’, and in 1934, ‘an ambition achieved. Seated on
the summit of Achi Baba near an old Turkish observation post’. [$150-200]
130 [LASERON, Charles Francis]
Souvenir. With the Australian and New Zealand Forces in Egypt and the Dardanelles [cover title]
[Sydney, The Author, circa 1916]. Oblong octavo, [21] card leaves (all versos blank), comprising a page of verse and 20
captioned illustrations (from photographs).
Original cord-tied overlapping red title-wrappers with the title in decorative gilt lettering on the front cover and
‘Copyright. Chas F. Laseron’ on the outside rear cover; wrappers slightly sunned and chipped on the spine, with two
tiny tears expertly sealed; an excellent copy (internally in fine condition).
COMMEMORATION
Charles Francis Laseron (1887-1959), ‘naturalist and connoisseur’ as well as Antarctic explorer under Mawson, and
a veteran of both World Wars, enlisted in the AIF in September 1914. ‘Wounded on the second day of the Gallipoli
landings while serving as a sergeant with the 13th Battalion, he returned to Sydney and was discharged in 1916. That
year extracts from his war diaries appeared in a slim volume, From Australia to the Dardanelles’ (Australian Dictionary
of Biography). This very rare pictorial record on the same theme was probably produced around the same time. The
verse (‘’Tis better far to die thus, in the prime / of mankinds [sic] power, than flicker out at last / Unmourned,
dishonoured in a ripe old age....’) and the photographs are presumably his own work. Seven of the plates are of Egypt,
the balance of Gallipoli. They do not gild the lily, as these captions to powerful images attest: ‘A Warm Corner of the
Firing Line’; ‘A Funeral Party’; and ‘The Havoc of War’. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trove records
only the National Library of Australia and State Library of NSW copies. [$600-800]
131 Mackay Panorama and War Views [cover title]
Brisbane, R.J. Belbin, [1915]. Panoramic format (185 × 455 mm), 14 leaves, comprising 12 leaves of captioned bluetoned plates (versos blank), a leaf of text (numbered 7, with the Roll of Honour on the recto, and ‘A Glorious Charge.
Mackay Men in Action’ on the verso), and a leaf of small local advertisements at the rear.
Dark grey wrappers printed and decorated in red, with a colour plate mounted on the front cover; two tiny tears
expertly sealed; minimal marginal foxing; creased where folded vertically down the centre; an excellent copy.
The colour plate shows the Adelaide Steamship Company’s Tender Brinawarr conveying F Company Mackay Infantry.
The first six leaves of plates are the Mackay panoramas (five are full-page, the other one contains two images). The
last six leaves of plates (four full-page panoramas, and two leaves each containing three plates) depict various aspects
of Queensland’s war effort, with most of them specifically relating to Mackay. These include ‘Officers of “F. Coy”
(Mackay Infantry), Prior to Departure for Thursday Island’; ‘A Snapshot on the Brinawarr’; ‘A Typical War Scene.
Departure of Mackay Boys to Join the Colours’; and ‘The Troopship Star of England, on which the Light Horsemen of
Mackay departed for the Front’ (and in which two men later killed at Gallipoli were identified—Jack Wentford and
Albert Graffunder). Most of the text in the short article, ‘A Glorious Charge’, reprints a letter from Captain Birkbeck to
his wife from his hospital bed in Alexandra; it is an account of the fierce action in Monash Gully on 14 May in which
Albert Graffunder was killed and Jack Wentford mortally wounded. Not located in Trove. [$400-600]
COMMEMORATION
132 MEAGHER, Lieutenant Norman Richard Thomas
With the Fortieth. Lieutenant Norman Meagher. The 40th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Abroad
Hobart, The Parents of Norman Meagher, 1918. Octavo, [3]-99, [3] (two blanks and the colophon) pages plus 6 plates;
despite the pagination irregularity, this copy is complete, with the first page being the half-title, numbered [3].
Red cloth lettered in white on the front cover; cloth lightly water-stained near the top edges, causing the red dye to
stain the top centimetre of the endpapers and the occasional top margin of some leaves; thin light tidemark to the
top margin of the plates; small surface loss to the front pastedown; trifling pencil marks to the contents page; a very
good copy.
Norman Meagher was killed in action on 4 October 1917 in the battle of Broodseinde Ridge (all of the objectives
were gained, but the Australian divisions suffered 6500 casualties). The book is largely an edited compilation of
letters written on active service to his parents and friends in Tasmania. This copy has the contemporary ownership
signature of F. Winterson on the title page, and the further details ‘Sandy Bay 1918’ on the pastedown: this is Florence
Winterson, wife of Walter Winterson, who at that time was on active service with the 12th Battalion. Dornbusch 260;
Fielding and O’Neill, page 229.
[$400-500]
133 MURDOCH, Keith
The Australians at Bullecourt. Scot and Australian join Hands. Keith Murdoch, Special Representative of the
Sun, writes [drop title]
Sydney, William Brooks and Co., Printers, [1917]. Broadside (440 × 290 mm), stiff card printed on the recto only, in
two columns beneath a large decorative monochrome illustration; in fine condition.
‘Murdoch [later Sir Keith Murdoch, media tycoon] visited the front irregularly as an unofficial war correspondent;
some of his dispatches, in 1918 especially, were vivid, though opinionated, and in some respects superior to Bean’s’
(Australian Dictionary of Biography). This 700-word report is probably a good example, and rare into the bargain;
Trove records only the copy in the National Library of Australia. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$250-350]
COMMEMORATION
134 National Bank of Australasia Limited. Record of War Service of Bank and Staff, 1914-1919
Melbourne, Osboldstone and Company, 1921. Large quarto, 164 pages plus an unnumbered leaf tipped in at page 15
(regarding the recent unveiling of the Honor Board on 14 June 1921). Apart from the first 18 pages of preliminaries
(which include 5 full-page plates in any event), and the last page (a list of 11 men for whom portrait photographs could
not be found), the balance of the book contains illustrations: there are 18 full-page war views, and 127 pages of portrait
photographs of the approximately 500 men who enlisted.
Gilt-pictorial brown cloth on thick bevel-edged boards; cloth sunned at the head of the spine and a little mottled;
endpapers offset; light crease to the bottom corner of fifteen consecutive leaves; an excellent copy with the pictorial
dustwrapper discoloured and a little worn, with minor loss (now stabilised).
A lavish memorial volume, and of considerable intrinsic value, with war service details under each portrait (arranged
with only three exceptions in strict alphabetical order). Two of the exceptions are the VC winners. Lieutenant Rupert
Moon of the 58th Battalion (Bullecourt, May 1917) ‘resigned from the Bank on 1st December 1919’ (as the Australian
Dictionary of Biography puts it, ‘Moon readjusted to civilian life with difficulty’). Corporal Arthur Percy Sullivan
‘arrived in England too late to participate in the fighting in France, but offered his services when volunteers were
wanted for the Archangel front’; his was the first VC awarded in Northern Russia. [$200-300]
135 [NICHOLAS, A.S., editor]
AAMC ‘Patches’ [cover title]. Australian Army Medical Corps AIF Interstate Reunion, Adelaide, April 25,
1938. Also including British, New Zealand Expeditionary Force Field Ambulances and other Dominion Army
Medical Corps
Adelaide, [AAMC Reunion Committee], 1938. Oblong octavo, [ii] (title page, verso blank), 201 pages (plus 19a and its
printed verso, numbered 21a) with some illustrations (all produced in brown ink from processed typescript) plus 47
pages of plates and 8 unnumbered sectional title leaves (all versos blank); all but 6 of the first 30 (and 2 later) pages
are printed rectos only.
Flush-cut pictorial wrappers (neatly mounted on boards, but we suggest not as issued) with a few trifling surface
blemishes; later ownership signature on the front flyeaf; a fine copy of a very rare and unusual item.
‘Ever since the cessation of hostilities of the Great War, 1914-1918, it has been the wish of Australian Army Medical
Corps AIF ex-servicemen in South Australia, that we should have some permanent record of our Fallen Comrades,
and to those who have “Passed On” since returning to Australia. The following pages are the expression of that
wish’ (foreword). The Honor Rolls run to 18 pages. Other contents include the reunion programme with a list of
guests, Digger songs, ‘War and Other Verses’, and a lengthy section of war statistics and related items of interest.
Loosely inserted in this copy is a ‘Critique [of the book] by the Editor, Rising Sun’, dated Adelaide, 31 March 1938.
Presumably, the reference is to The Rising Sun: A Journal of the AIF in France (With which is incorporated ‘The Honk’);
nineteen numbers were issued between 25 December 1916 and 24 March 1917 (see Fielding and O’Neill, page 264). The
anonymous critic is not only onside; his intimate remarks about the compilation and production of the book suggest
COMMEMORATION
he was very much inside as well. He writes the following about the AAMC Orderly Room in Adelaide, where the
work was done: ‘the well remembered atmosphere of a dug-out was warmly recaptured. On the walls were Leyshon
White pictures, crisp of technique, and so faithfully capturing the spirit that existed “over there”. War-time quips were
bandied freely; each chic female helper may well have been the ghost of Mam’selle herself; each flurry of sound from
passing traffic may well have been the whine of more sinister objects’. Dornbusch (addenda) 535; Fielding and O’Neill,
page 233 (supplying the name of the editor); Trigellis-Smith 316. [$500-600]
136 Record of the Australian Imperial Force in the Great War, 4th Aug. 1914 – 28th June 1919 [a poster, with
‘Copyright, J.W. Sanders (late AIF) / “Doug. Moule, del”’ printed in the bottom margin]
Melbourne, ‘Designed, Engraved and Printed by Osboldstone and Co.’, [not before 1921] (the text about Sir Herbert
Cox on the front pastedown records that he was ‘Secretary, Military Department, India Office, 1917-1921’).
A colour-pictorial poster (585 × 455 mm, recto only printed), folded across the centre and mounted as issued on
a cloth stub in half leather and gilt-decorated cloth (boards slightly bowed, leather a little worn at the extremities,
cloth with a few small marks); the pastedowns, a little discoloured around the edges, are oblong-format printed text,
‘Records of the Generals whose Portraits appear on the Record’, and ‘Cross Index to Colour Patches and Abbreviated
Names of Units ...’) respectively; overall in excellent condition. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$300-400]
137 SCHULER, Phillip Frederick Edward
Pictures of the Battlefields of Anzac, on which the Australasians won Deathless Fame [cover title]. The
Battlefields of Anzac. A Deeply Interesting and Historical Series of Views depicting the Heroism of our Gallant
Anzac Boys on the Field of Battle. By the War Correspondent of The Age
Melbourne, Osboldstone and Co., 1916 (the author’s introduction is dated March 1916). Large oblong octavo, [32]
pages with a full-page map and 28 pages of illustrations (a total of 65 illustrations, all from photographs).
COMMEMORATION
Two-colour pictorial card covers lightly foxed and discoloured; staples replaced with archival thread; an excellent
copy. The author’s major work, Australia in Arms: A Narrative of the Australian Imperial Force and their Achievement
at Anzac, published in London in the same year as this booklet, was the first full published account of Australia’s role
in the Dardanelles campaign. In his short note of appreciation in this pictorial volume, he states that ‘Realising that
the narratives and descriptions of the trench life and battlefields would be brought more vividly before the public
mind, I set about collecting views. Many soldiers gladly gave me what assistance they could’. Not in Dornbusch;
138 SMITH, Sydney Ure, Bertram STEVENS and Ernest WATT (editors)
Oswald Watt, Lieut.-Colonel AFC, OBE, Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre. A Tribute to His Memory by a
Few of His Friends
Sydney, Art in Australia, 1921. Large quarto, [ii] (half-title, statement of limitation on the verso), 69, [1] (colophon)
pages plus 43 pages of plates (with a total of 131 plates from photographs).
Flush-cut plain card covers with the attached dustwrapper (printed in gold and black) overlapping on the top and
bottom edges (these a little marked and chipped with minor loss, but now expertly stabilised); edges lightly foxed
and marked; small light tidemarks to the leading margin of a small number of leaves; some foxing (confined mainly
to the pages adjacent to the plates); notwithstanding, an excellent copy. One of only 550 copies, and correspondingly
scarce. In 1914, Walter Oswald Watt (1878-1921) ‘became an ordinary soldier in the Aviation Militaire section of
the French Foreign Legion.... In 1916 he transferred to the newly formed Australian Flying Corps, with the rank
of captain and command of B Flight, No.1 Squadron, then stationed in Egypt.... In February 1918 Watt—by then a
lieutenant-colonel—was promoted to command the four squadrons (Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8) of the Australian training
wing at Tetbury’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). He drowned at Bilgola Beach, Newport, New South Wales, on
21 May 1921. Fielding and O’Neill, page 257. [$300-400]
139 Souvenir Programme. Victory Celebrations (Signing of Peace). Sydney, New South Wales, July 6th, 1919 ...
Sydney, Government Printer, 1919. Large octavo, 62, [2] (blank, colophon) pages with 8 pages of illustrations (mainly
portraits) plus a folding ‘Plan of Route of Procession’.
Colour-pictorial wrappers rubbed at the extremities, and expertly reinforced along the spine, with the staples replaced
with archival thread; minor surface loss, confined mainly to the plain marginal areas at the rear; trifling signs of use
and age; a very good copy. What appears to be the signature ‘D.H. Souter’ is written in purple ink on the inside front
cover; alas, it is not the renowned black-and-white artist David Henry Souter, nor his namesake, 778 Private D.H.
Souter. Charles Bean supplied a two-page foreword and a three-page article on the Great War ‘To be read on the
occasion of Presentation of Peace Souvenir Medals’. Much of the text is given over to the ‘Official Summary of the
Terms’ of the Peace Treaty (22 pages). Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$100-200]
140 Tasmania’s Heroes. Awards for Valour
Hobart, N.G. Davies, at The Mercury Office, October 1918. Oblong duodecimo, 30, [1] (colophon) pages with 9
illustrations (from photographs) of the winners of the Victoria Cross.
Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. A double-page spread is devoted to each of the nine VC winners, followed by a
seven-page list of those Tasmanians who had gained other significant awards. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and
O’Neill. [$100-200]
141 T’FELT, Julien
Album Souvenir de Rouen temps de Guerre. Souvenir Album of Rouen in Wartime
Rouen, Maison Aloye, April 1917. Oblong octavo (153 × 245 mm), [ii] (title leaf) and 21 illustrations by the author (all
versos blank); 11 illustrations are full-page, 10 are half-page, and all but three (from 1917) are dated 1916.
COMMEMORATION
Original tricolour ribbon-bound three-colour pictorial wrappers a little foxed and lightly used; acidic tissue-guards
discoloured, creased and occasionally chipped with some loss; minimal foxing; overall a very good copy. The title
page and captions are in French and English. There is a lengthy explanatory note on the title page: ‘During these long
months [since War broke out], the presence in the old City of the British, Indian, Canadian, Australian troops, and
of the Belgian and French wounded of all arms, has entirely changed the appearance of the streets and even of its old
buildings.... [The album] ... composed of drawings from nature ... will be like a living and true witness of the good
entente which reigned between France and her Allies, to ensure the victory of Right and Liberty’. Virtually all plates
feature military personnel seeing the sights, and in three of them the distinctive slouch hat is clearly visible. The first
plate (‘The Quay of the Exchange’) is about as good as they get: the hospital ship St Andrew, an ambulance, and a truck
groaning under the weight of troops are off to one side, doing what they must do, while officers and men (one of them
an amputee) from half a dozen Allied nations are taking in the sights—in fact, the kilted soldier is chatting up a local
lass. Sauntering in from the right, down the middle of the street and without a care in the world, are two Anzacs, a
Kiwi in his lemon squeezer hat and a Digger in his slouch hat ... Rouen was the centre for the Army Service Corps,
and was also the location of many base hospitals. Not located in Trove. [$150-200]
142 War Graves
War Graves of the Empire. Reprinted from the Special Number of The Times, November 10, 1928
London, The Times Publishing Company, 1928. Quarto, xii (last blank), 80 pages with numerous illustrations (mainly
from photographs) plus 9 full-page plates.
Cloth very lightly sunned at the extremities; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper unevenly sunned and a little
marked and chipped. A sobering record of the work of the Imperial War Graves Commission, published on the tenth
anniversary of the signing of the Armistice. The chapter on Gallipoli is by General Sir Ian Hamilton (4 pages with 3
illustrations). Fielding and O’Neill, page 257. [$100-200]
143 WHITE, John A. (editor)
With the Men of the A.M.P. Society in the Great War, 1914-1919
Sydney, John Sands Limited, [1919]. Small oblong quarto, 62, [2] (blank, colophon) pages with 18 full-page plates and
5 pages of small oval portraits (37 in all).
Overlapping gilt-decorated card covers lightly bumped around the edges; a fine copy. A handsomely produced
company history, with a nominal and Honor Roll; much of the book is devoted to the plates and a series of letters
from AMP men on active service. ‘The letters are of interest as showing that “devil-may-care” spirit of freedom so
characteristic of the Australian soldier—the spirit which made him the wonderful fighting man of the great war’. Not
in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$100-200]
144 YOUNG, Wilfred
Australia’s Heroic Deeds on the Field of Battle. Biographical Sketches of North Sydney Heroes
Sydney, Epworth Printing and Publishing House, 1917. Small quarto, 130 pages plus a folding double-page plate.
Two-colour wrappers a little chipped, marked and foxed; first and last pages discoloured and a little marked; occasional
light scattered foxing; mild signs of use; a decent copy. The first short section contains a potted history of the Soudan
and Boer Wars (with the NSW Honor Roll in each instance), and touches on the first years of the First World War.
The singular importance of this work then unfolds over the next 95 pages, which contain detailed, personal—even
intimate—biographical sketches of over 500 local men serving in the AIF, organised by the streets on which they lived
in North Sydney. Fortunately, there is an index ... The author explains his motives in the preface: ‘While expressing
my appreciation of their heroic deeds, I feel that it is the sacred duty of all true Australians to help to perpetuate the
memory of every Australian soldier who has answered his country’s call’. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and
O’Neill. [$150-200]
COMMEMORATION
Art
145 Anzac Commemorative Plate
An attractive art deco plate, with the legend ‘MCMXVII A Nos Amis Anzac’ surrounding a Digger ready
for action, with bayonet fixed and the barbed wire behind him
A hand-painted polychrome faïence-ware plate (diameter 235 mm), decorated as above, with an additional frieze of
leaves and geometric patterns around the border; monogram (JFB) on the underside; although the glaze is crazed,
this item is still a delight. The plate was designed by Félix Boutreux, a master of faïence-ware, and it formed part of
a series of plates depicting soldiers from at least a dozen Allied nations. Our research suggests it was produced in
Montereau, France, in 1930.
[$200-300]
146 BERNE-BELLECOUR, Jean
Dans Les Lignes Anglaises. [Album de Croquis (cover subtitle)]
Paris, Editions d’Art Guerrier, 1917. Large folio (460 × 390 mm), [vi] pages (comprising title page, certificate of
limitation, and a foreword in English by Claire de Pratz, all rectos blank) plus a tipped-in portrait of the Prince of
Wales and 24 large tipped-in colour plates containing 50 different sketches of the British front in France; loosely
inserted is an original watercolour by the artist (as issued).
Original screw-bound portfolio of half cloth and marbled papered boards (with flaps attached to the three open
edges of the rear board), lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little mottled on the spine, with a few marks and
short sealed tears elsewhere; marbled paper a little rubbed and chipped, with a little loss to the front cover near the
spine; screws a little rusty; leading edge ribbon ties no longer present; front pastedown and flaps a little marked, with
minimal expert conservation work to the inner hinges of the flaps; overall, the binding is in decent condition, while
the contents are in very fine condition.
ART
The edition is limited to 325 signed copies; this is Number 11 of the deluxe issue of only 25 copies printed on japon
paper, containing an original watercolour by Jean Berne-Bellecour, a French official war artist. The painting (image
size 195 × 308 mm, tipped in on the original thin double mount) depicts a rural landscape behind the lines, with
canvas and a string of cavalry horses featured prominently. The portfolio contains a variety of images of fighting men
and machines, and the accompanying bravery, misery and destruction. Four of the plates feature Anzacs, including
a powerful image of heavy artillery gunners in action. This plate is mentioned specifically in the foreword, as an
example of the sort of detail the fresh and unfamiliar eyes of a French artist might bring to a scene concerning ‘English
men and things ... Thus Jean Berne-Bellecour in his clever picture of some English and Anzac soldiers, stripped to
the waist as they “serve” one of their great guns, emphasizes the contrast between the fair young skins of his models’
bodies and the dark bronzed tan of their faces, necks and forearms’. [$1500-2000]
147 BONE, Muirhead
The Western Front. Drawings by Muirhead Bone. With an Introduction by General Sir Douglas Haig.
[Together with] ... Volume II. With Text by C.E. Montague
London, Published by Authority of the War Office from the Offices of Country Life Limited (and in the case of the
second volume, of George Newnes Limited), 1917. Large quarto, two volumes, 200 full-page lithographed plates (some
tinted) with detailed captions on the facing page, interspersed occasionally with small introductory essays.
Quarter oatmeal-coloured buckram and brown papered boards with contrasting leather title-labels on the spines;
labels a little rubbed, buckram lightly marked, papered boards a little marked, scuffed, and rubbed and bumped at the
extremities (and with one front cover unevenly sunned); top edges dusty, with a small light stain to the second one;
endpapers offset; a very good set (internally fine).
In his introduction, written in November 1916, Haig says that the drawings ‘illustrate admirably the daily life of the
troops under my command.... The destruction caused by war, the wide areas of devastation, the vast mechanical
agencies essential in war, both for transport and the offensive, the masses of supplies required, and the wonderful
cheerfulness and indomitable courage of the soldiers under varying climatic conditions, are worthy subjects for the
artist who aims at recording for all time the spirit of the age in which he has lived’. Muirhead Bone was appointed
Britain’s first official war artist in May 1916, and arrived on the Western Front in August 1916. [$200-300]
ART
148 BONE, Muirhead [and others]
The Western Front. Drawings by Muirhead Bone. With an Introduction by General Sir Douglas Haig.
[Together with] ... Volume II. With Text by C.E. Montague. [Bound together with] British Artists at the
Front [see footnote for details]
London, Published by Authority of the War Office from the Offices of Country Life Limited (and in the case of the
second volume, of George Newnes Limited), 1917. Large quarto, two volumes, 200 full-page lithographed plates (some
tinted) with detailed captions on the facing page, interspersed occasionally with small introductory essays.
Quarter light brown buckram and brown papered boards with contrasting leather title-labels on the spines; slight loss
to the labels, spines sunned, papered boards a little rubbed and lightly worn at the extremities, with slight loss of paper
to one corner, and trifling surface loss near both front leading edges; top edges a little darkened; endpapers offset; a
very good set (internally fine).
In his introduction, written in November 1916, Haig says that the drawings ‘illustrate admirably the daily life of the
troops under my command.... The destruction caused by war, the wide areas of devastation, the vast mechanical
agencies essential in war, both for transport and the offensive, the masses of supplies required, and the wonderful
cheerfulness and indomitable courage of the soldiers under varying climatic conditions, are worthy subjects for the
artist who aims at recording for all time the spirit of the age in which he has lived’. Muirhead Bone was appointed
Britain’s first official war artist in May 1916, and arrived on the Western Front in August 1916. This set of his works
from that trip is bound together with all four slim volumes of the same publishers’ scarce British Artists at the Front
series (two at the end of each volume of The Western Front). Each volume of British Artists at the Front showcases the
work of one British artist, respectively Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, Sir John Lavery, Paul Nash, and Eric
Kennington. The four volumes, published individually in wrappers in 1918, are here bound in without the wrappers.
Each volume contains introductory essays by Campbell Dodgson (and one other author in each instance), and 15 fullpage chromolithographs (17 in the Kennington volume); they are in uniformly excellent condition. [$500-600]
ART
149 BOULESTIN, Xavier Marcel
Dans les Flandres Britanniques. Vingt-quatre Dessins de J.E. Laboureur. British Expeditionary Force. Mai
1915 – Janvier 1916
Paris, Dorbon Ainé, 1916. Small folio, [72] pages (printed rectos only) with 24 line illustrations (20 half-page and 4
vignettes).
Overlapping pictorial wrappers (reproducing the title page vignette on the front cover), all edges uncut; a very fine
copy.
Number 239 of only 350 copies produced, this is a superb example of this charming work, a series of vignettes of life
in Flanders with the British Expeditionary Force, from a decidedly French angle. The illustrations are by Jean-Émile
Laboureur (1877-1943), painter, graphic artist, engraver and illustrator, who studied and lived in the USA and Canada
from 1903-08. In 1914, he was mobilised into the British Army as an interpreter. The author, Xavier Marcel Boulestin
(1878-1943), served in the French army as an interpreter to the British Expeditionary Force during the war. He is much
better known as the chef and restaurateur whose books popularised French cuisine in the English-speaking world. [$500-700]
ART
150 DYSON, Lieutenant Will
Australia at War. A Winter Record made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres during the Campaigns
of 1916 and 1917. With an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. [Australia at War. Drawings at the Front by Lieut.
Will Dyson, Official Artist AIF (cover title)]
London, Cecil Palmer and Hayward, 1918. Large quarto, 52 pages with a pictorial dedication page plus 20 full-page
illustrations.
Pictorial card covers; spine slightly cracked but stabilised; leading margin of the half-title very slightly silverfish-nibbled;
an excellent copy (internally fine). William Henry Dyson (1880-1938) was commissioned by the Commonwealth in
December 1916 ‘as the first Australian war artist. While living with the Australian soldiers on the Western Front,
Lieutenant Dyson was twice wounded but returned to continue producing his compassionate drawings of humanity
under fire. A collection of these water-colour wash and crayon drawings, each with Dyson’s interpretative text’
constitutes this book. By all accounts the winter of 1916-17 was the harshest in the region in decades, and the drawings
reflect ‘more the misery and the depression of the material conditions of these campaigns than it does any of their
exaltations or their cheerfulness.... but it is open to doubt whether we are behaving generously in demanding that the
soldier who is saving the world for us should provide us with a fund of light entertainment while doing it’ (Artist’s
Note). Dornbusch 225; Fielding and O’Neill, page 245. [$150-200]
151 JONAS, Lucien
Armée Anglaise. [Together with] Les Armées Britanniques [and] B.E.F. [and] L’Armée Americaine. [A
matching group of four volumes containing illustrations of the English, British and American armies, and
the British Expeditionary Force, in France]
Paris, Librairie-Ainé, 1915 to 1919. Large quarto, four volumes, consisting entirely of full-page plates, with the list of
contents printed on the pastedowns. In all cases, the plates are present in both colour and black and white versions;
see the footnote for details.
Colour pictorial cream canvas in sketch-book style (with a slot for a pencil on the leading edge of the lower board,
but lacking the long strap originally attached to the rear cover); the light-coloured material shows trifling signs of
handling; essentially a fine group.
These four volumes are from a series of thirteen limited-edition ‘Carnets de Croquis de Guerre’, but those not present
relate mostly to the French forces. Remarkably, the four volumes in this group come from the very limited ‘grand
luxe’ edition, containing an original crayon drawing signed by the artist, and with the plates present in both colour
and black and white. Lucien Jonas (1880-1947), ‘Peintre militaire attaché au Musée de l’Armée’ in Paris, was one of the
most prolific and moving of Great War artists. He was mobilised in December 1914, and spent much of the war on the
front lines, producing thousands of portraits, landscapes and military scenes in the form of drawings, oil paintings,
charcoals and sketches of all types. The four volumes present here are: (A) Armée Anglaise. June 1915 (the first in the
series); 300 copies; 55 plates each in two states, with this being number 6 of 20 copies thus with an original crayon
drawing (‘Dans la Boue’ [In the Mud], depicting a British infantryman in full marching order with rifle, bayonet and
entrenching tool). (B) Les Armées Britanniques. [1918?] (the seventh in the series); 450 copies; 51 plates each in two
ART
states, with this being number 47 of 50 copies thus with an original crayon drawing (a portrait believed to be of 20848
Private Philip, 9th Black Watch). (C) B.E.F. [1918?] (the ninth in the series); 450 copies; 51 plates each in two states, with
this being number 27 of 50 copies thus with an original crayon drawing (three Indian Army soldiers). (D) L’Armée
Americaine. 1919 (the twelfth in the series); 350 copies; 62 plates each in two states, with this being number 89 of 100
copies thus with an original crayon drawing (an American soldier being awarded a medal by a high-ranking French
officer). [$1500-2000]
ART
152 LABOUREUR, Jean-Emile
ANZACS. An original woodcut depicting a small group of Diggers behind the lines
[France, 1918 to 1922?].
Image size 250 × 140 mm (with the initial L incised in the block), signed and numbered (14/45) in pencil in the bottom
margin by the artist; in fine condition, recently framed and glazed (visible paper size 277 × 163 mm).
Jean-Émile Laboureur (1877-1943), painter, graphic artist, engraver and illustrator, was mobilised into the British
Army as an interpreter in 1914. Many fine examples of his work depicting British troops in the Great War exist from
this period, but this is a very unusual example of a wartime French work with an explicit focus on the Anzacs. The
recent strong influence of Cubism on his work, out of which he invented a cubist idiom all his own, enables him
to graphically capture the informality of the Diggers in the forefront, instantly recognizable in their slouch hats;
his pared-down Rising Sun motif is not lost on the initiated, either. A colleague in the background, driving hard a
heavily-laden four-in-hand passed a village, completes the busy picture. Sylvain Laboureur 713. [$1000-1500]
ART
153 LABOUREUR, Jean-Emile
Le Gramophone. An original woodcut depicting British troops relaxing behind the lines
[France, 1918 to 1921].
Image size 250 × 215 mm (with the initial L incised in the block), signed and numbered (23/45) in pencil in the bottom
margin by the artist; in fine condition, recently framed and glazed (visible paper size 283 × 242 mm).
Jean-Émile Laboureur (1877-1943), painter, graphic artist, engraver and illustrator, was mobilised into the British
Army as an interpreter in 1914. The recent strong influence of Cubism on his work suits this depiction of British
troops behind the lines, enjoying a drink as they crowd around a busy gramophone and a stack of records in their
tent. Sylvain Laboureur 712. [$1000-1200]
ART
154 LABOUREUR, Jean-Émile
Petites Images de la Guerre sur le Front Britannique. Neuf Gravures au Burin ...
Paris, Vernant, August 1917. Large quarto, [viii] (conjugate blank, half-title, title, blank, with all versos blank), xii (last
blank), [36] (9 full-page engravings with conjugate captions, all versos blank), [4] (colophon and conjugate blank,
both versos blank) pages.
Unbound, uncut and loosely housed in the original two-colour card covers (with the title page details repeated on the
front panel); small light crease and tiny surface erasure to the front cover; first and last blank pages a little tanned; an
exceptional copy in the original portfolio (marbled papered boards with a printed title-label on the front panel, and
two ribbon ties) lightly worn at the extremities, with the marbled paper a little chipped along the hinges.
A beautifully-produced limited edition work depicting scenes in ‘British’ Flanders by Jean-Émile Laboureur (18771943), painter, graphic artist, engraver and illustrator. In 1914, he was mobilised into the British Army as an interpreter.
This is number 92 of only 120 copies signed by the artist, with each engraving inscribed by him in pencil with the same
number. There is also a nine-page introduction by Roger Allard. Loosely inserted is the original prospectus (quarto, 4
pages, both versos blank), which includes a specimen of one of the engravings (‘Le Retour aux Trenchées’, overprinted
in green with the word ‘specimen’); apart from being creased where folded in quarters, it is in excellent condition. It
states that the engravings were done in Flanders, Artois and Picardy in the course of 1916. The influence of Cubism (to
which he was exposed after he settled in Paris in 1912) is most evident in these graphic illustrations.
[$1500-2000]
155 LINDSAY, Daryl
Daryl Lindsay’s ‘Digger’ Book
Melbourne, Sun Art Studios, 1919. Folio, [6] pages plus 14 tipped-in colour plates (versos of the mounts blank) with
captioned tissue-guards; the six preliminary pages comprise a statement of limitation, a one-page introduction by
C.E.W. Bean, and the list of illustrations (all versos blank).
ART
Quarter cloth and papered boards; the front cover is lettered in gilt in ornamental fonts, and has mounted on it a small
portrait (a detail from plate 4); slight wear to the extremities, with the front board slightly bowed; flyleaves offset;
minimal foxing, confined to the preliminaries; overall an excellent copy.
The first page is a statement of limitation: ‘This Edition is limited to 450 copies, and 30 Artist’s proofs (not for sale)’.
This is one of the latter (the trade edition comes in cord-bound overlapping card covers with the small mounted
plate). This copy is denoted an Artist’s Proof and signed by Daryl Lindsay, and further inscribed ‘To [left blank] With
the Artist’s Best Wishes’. The recipient’s name is entered in another hand. He is presumably 30555 Gunner Harold
Hartley Browning, a gunner with the 21st FAB from early November 1916; in June 1917 he transferred to the AFC. In
civilian life he was an architect. Unusually, all copies of this book were issued without a title leaf; the four preliminary
pages comprise a one-page introduction by C.E.W. Bean and the list of illustrations, with both versos blank. Not in
Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$300-400]
156 WALLER, Bombadier Mervyn Napier
War Sketches on the Somme Front.... With Notes on the Pictures by the Artist
Melbourne, Edward A. Vidler, 1918. Quarto, 72 pages with a frontispiece portrait photograph of the artist, vignette
portraits on the first and last pages, and 29 full-page illustrations.
Overlapping pictorial wrappers a little marked, creased and chipped at the extremities; small light tidemark to the top
margin of some leaves (confined mainly to the rear); some corner creases, with a tiny chip to the top corner of the title
leaf; trifling signs of use and age; a decent copy.
In the centre of the book is an informative eight-page essay by the publisher, Edward Vidler. The first paragraph
provides the important context: ‘The distinction of holding the first exhibition in Australia of pictures of the real
scenes and incidents of an “Aussie” soldier’s experiences has fallen to ex-Bombardier Waller, of the 111th Howitzer
Battery, 4th Division, Australian Imperial Forces. That he lost his right arm as the result of wounds, and has had to
teach himself the difficult art of drawing with his left, adds considerably to the unique interest of the exhibition’.
Waller had initially enlisted in the 22nd Battalion, and saw active service with the Howitzer Battery from late 1916; he
was badly wounded at Bullecourt. The exhibition opened at the Fine Art Society’s Galleries in Melbourne on 8 August
1918. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 256. [$200-300]
ART
Literature
157 BERRIE, George
Morale. A Story of Australian Light Horsemen
Sydney, Holland & Stephenson, 1949. Octavo, [ii], 252, [2] (blank, colophon) pages.
Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
Although this is a work of fiction, ‘a story of the Australian Light Horse campaigns in Gallipoli and Palestine during
World War 1’ (dustwrapper blurb), the author, Lieutenant George Berrie, embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements, 6th
Light Horse Regiment, in August 1915, and rose through the ranks. He also wrote Under Furred Hats, the history of
the 6th Light Horse Regiment. Dornbusch 378; not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$100-200]
158 BLOCKSIDGE, William [later William BAYLEBRIDGE]
An Anzac Muster
London, Privately Printed, [1922]. Octavo, viii, 288 pages.
Overlapping stiff card covers bumped at the extremities; occasional light scattered foxing; a very good copy, uncut
and partially unopened.
Mounted on the front pastedown is the bookplate of Geoffrey Farmer, librarian, book collector, bibliographer, and
editor of A Letter to Norah on the Death of an Anzac at Lone Pine (1993). Printed in ‘an edition of only 100 copies ...
This volume is a sustained feat of story-telling in prose by one of Australia’s major poets. Its theme is the Gallipoli
Campaign of 1915. These are soldiers’ tales’ derived from the author’s own experiences (from the 1962 revised edition);
the Australian Dictionary of Biography notes that this series of embedded tales by veterans has been called ‘a complex
epic of Anzac in “Miltonic prose”’. ‘They constitute an outstanding production of war fiction in Australia’ (E. Morris
Miller: Australian Literature. From its Beginnings to 1935). Morris Miller, Volume 1, page 183 (supplying the date); not
in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 240. [$150-200]
159 COCKS, Nicholas John and David Henry SOUTER
Songs of the Dardanelles [cover title]
Sydney, W.A. Pepperday and Company, Printers, [1915]. Quarto, [8] pages printed on thin card.
Two-colour title-cover bound with patriotic red, white, and blue cord; acidic card stock tanned, with the front cover
a little marked and slightly chipped at one corner; a very good copy.
‘Reprinted by permission from The Scottish Australasian for the benefit of the Red Cross League.’ This very rare item
contains five full-page poems by Cocks, an influential Congregational minister, and one by Souter, the well-known
artist and journalist. All poems are individually dated (May, June or July 1915). Souter’s contribution, ‘The Graves at
the Dardanelles’, contains a correction in indelible pencil to the last line (‘Oh! God’ has been changed to ‘By God’). [$100-200]
160 GLAZIER, F.H.F.
Patriotic Poems
Albany, Printed by E.S. Wigg & Son, Perth [for the Author?], [1915]. Duodecimo, [8] pages with 3 vignette illustrations.
Colour-pictorial wrappers; a fine copy.
A small collection of poems by an Albany fisherman, whose name crops up regularly in the Albany Advertiser (not
least, in the In Memoriam notices in January 1917). ‘The Kaiser and his Crew’ (12 August 1914); ‘Landing of the
Australians’ (8 July 1915); ‘I Wonder’ (22 August 1915); and ‘New Zealand’s Unknown Hero’ (11 September). Trove
locates only the Australian War Memorial copy. [$100-200]
LITERATURE
161 GORDON, Hampden and M.G. TINDALL
Our Hospital ABC [cover title]. Our Hospital Anzac British Canadian. Pictures by Joyce Dennys. Verses by
Hampden Gordon & M.G. Tindall
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, [1916]. Quarto, [56] pages in colour, comprising a few preliminaries and a
double-page spread for each letter of the alphabet (a humorous verse facing a charming illustration), plus pictorial
endpapers (with the inner surfaces of the flyleaves integral to the text).
Quarter cloth and colour pictorial papered boards slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; light erasure to the
front flyleaf; a fine copy.
Wartime nursing staff feature in many of these well-executed and appealing illustrations. A couple in which they do
not appear are more than topical: ‘C is for Canada / gallant and true / whose sons make the Huns / look decidedly
blue’, and ‘L are the Lads who / by playing the game / have made the word Anzac / a glorious name’. The book went
through at least three editions; this would appear to be the first. [$100-200]
162 ‘Jock’ of the AIF
The Musings of a Soldier and other Poems
Ballarat, Tulloch and King, Printers and Publishers, 1919. 217 × 105 mm,
[28] pages.
Overlapping wrappers (repeating the full title page details on the front
cover, with the addition of the colour patch of the 58th Battalion); acidic
wrappers a little tanned, marked, and creased, with the chipped edges
expertly consolidated; scattered foxing; a very good copy of a very rare
item.
The sole quatrain on the verso of the title page effectively introduces
the collection: ‘A soldier had a little hat / He put it down one day /
And when he went to pick it up / The badge had gone away’. What one
might expect to find is there: ‘Dividing the Jam Ration’; ‘Chats (Body
Lice)’; ‘To Him Who Slanders The WAAC’; closer reading however tells
a greater story. Interspersed between the nine poems on the first eight
pages (and indeed, within the first poem itself) are short biographical
prose paragraphs that will almost certainly lead to the identification of
the soldier-poet. A farmer before the war, he was deterred from enlisting
by the attitude of one returned soldier, but on learning of the death of a
jackaroo mate at Gallipoli ‘decides to enlist to revenge the death of his
chum’. Four months later he embarked on the troopship A70 and was
soon appointed Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant. Then, ‘The
transport boat was torpedoed on Anzac Day, 25/4/17’ (HMAT Ballarat
was sunk by a German submarine in the English Channel; all on board
survived). ‘Picked up by destroyer boats, cold, hungry and fed up he
finally reaches port, and talking over things to a chum his thoughts
turn to home’. This item is not unrecorded—we have found a solitary
reference, a two-line listing in the ‘New Books’ column in the Argus,
Friday, 31 October 1919 (page 10)—but it appears to be uncollected,
according to Trove.
[$300-400]
163 LAWSON, Henry
My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs
Sydney, Tyrrell’s Limited, 1915 [first edition]. Small octavo, 127, [1] (colophon) pages plus a frontispiece portrait plate.
Colour pictorial card covers (with artwork by Norman Lindsay) a little sunned and rubbed on the spine; light scattered
foxing; an excellent copy.
LITERATURE
The Mackaness copy, with his ‘Bountiana’ bookplate; a loosely inserted receipt and address label indicate the book
went from Mackaness’s collection to Dr D.H. Gutteridge in WA (possibly a relative of Dr Eric W. Gutteridge,
lieutenant-colonel and the medical officer with the 7th Battalion, and co-author of its history). Henry Lawson (18671922) suffered ‘a ghastly decline’ in his creativity from the turn of the century. He ‘wrote a great deal despite his
often squalid circumstances but his work alternated between desperate revivals of old themes and inspirations and
equally desperate and unsuccessful attempts to break new ground. Maudlin sentimentality and melodrama, often
incipient even in some earlier work, invaded both his prose and poetry’, including this book (Australian Dictionary of
Biography). However, this first edition in genuinely scarce, especially in such attractive original condition. [$100-200]
164 [MANNING, Frederic]
The Middle Parts of Fortune. Somme & Ancre, 1916
London, The Piazza Press (Issued to Subscribers by Peter Davies), 1929 [but 1930]. Octavo, two volumes, [viii], 226
and [iv], 227-453 pages.
Brown buckram (lettered in gilt on the spines), top edges gilt, others uncut; original maroon ribbon place markers;
a very fine set complete with the original plain glassine dustwrappers with plain brown paper flaps (with a short
creased tear with minimal loss near the front bottom corner of the second front panel now stabilised), still housed in
the original maroon cloth slipcase.
‘This, the only edition of The Middle Parts of Fortune, is limited to five hundred and twenty numbered copies on
handmade paper, for issue to subscribers. An ordinary edition of the same work, but with certain prunings and
excisions, will be published through the usual channels, under the title of Her Privates We. This is number 445.’
Frederic Manning (1882-1935), novelist and poet, was born in Sydney; his father was Sir William Patrick Manning,
financier and politician. Frederic Manning spent most of his life from 1903 pursuing a literary career in England. In
1915, having failed officer training, he enlisted as a private, being posted to the Somme for much of the following two
years. In May 1917 he was commissioned second lieutenant, but ill-health prevented further active service. After the
war he spent much of his time in Italy. ‘His only hobbies were horse-racing and book-collecting. Friends, including
[T.E.] Lawrence and T.S. Eliot, found his conversation “extraordinary for its learning and charm”.... His sensitively
speculative cast of mind underlies Manning’s most enduring work, [this] war novel published anonymously ... It was
regarded as one of the outstanding English war novels by Forster, Lawrence (who discerned Manning’s authorship),
Arnold Bennett, Ernest Hemingway, Peter Davies (his friend and publisher) and Eric Partridge. The novel concerns
the life of men in the ranks of an English battalion in France, both in and out of action, and is based largely on
Manning’s own experiences as a “ranker”. It depicts a temporary release from isolation through a heightened form of
comradeship and is a kind of acceptance of war, despite its suffering and horrors, as a heightened form of the reality
of all human lives’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). [$1500-2000]
LITERATURE
165 [MANNING, Frederic] Private 19022
Her Privates We. By Private 19022
London, Peter Davies, January 1930 [first trade edition]. Octavo, [viii],
453 pages.
Coarse white cloth with a striking black (linocut) illustration on the
front cover; endpapers lightly offset; a fine copy with the original
plain glassine dustwrapper with printed paper flaps (the rear flap now
detached). Three lengthy contemporary newspaper review cuttings are
loosely inserted.
The book was first issued the same year under the title The Middle Parts
of Fortune in an edition limited to five hundred and twenty numbered
copies on handmade paper, for issue to subscribers. It referred to
this trade edition as having ‘certain prunings and excisions’. Frederic
Manning (1882-1935), novelist and poet, was born in Sydney; his father
was Sir William Patrick Manning, financier and politician. Frederic
Manning spent most of his life from 1903 pursuing a literary career in
England. In 1915, having failed officer training, he enlisted as a private,
being posted to the Somme for much of the following two years. In May
1917 he was commissioned second lieutenant, but ill-health prevented
further active service. After the war he spent much of his time in Italy.
‘His only hobbies were horse-racing and book-collecting. Friends,
including [T.E.] Lawrence and T.S. Eliot, found his conversation
“extraordinary for its learning and charm”.... His sensitively speculative
cast of mind underlies Manning’s most enduring work, [this] war novel published anonymously ... It was regarded
as one of the outstanding English war novels by Forster, Lawrence (who discerned Manning’s authorship), Arnold
Bennett, Ernest Hemingway, Peter Davies (his friend and publisher) and Eric Partridge. The novel concerns the life of
men in the ranks of an English battalion in France, both in and out of action, and is based largely on Manning’s own
experiences as a “ranker”. It depicts a temporary release from isolation through a heightened form of comradeship
and is a kind of acceptance of war, despite its suffering and horrors, as a heightened form of the reality of all human
lives’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). [$300-400]
166 MATTHEWS, Harley
Vintage [a poem]
Sydney, P.R. Stephensen, 1938. Imperial octavo, 51 pages.
Cloth (with bevelled edges and gilt blocking) a little sunned and slightly bowed; endpapers and adjacent pages foxed,
with minimal light scattered foxing elsewhere; an excellent copy (without a dustwrapper, as issued).
The author was a Gallipoli veteran who became a vigneron on his return to New South Wales. This poem in three parts
is ‘a long narrative beginning with the preliminaries of the Gallipoli campaign [“Two Brothers”]. The second part,
“True Patriot”, depicts trench life there, dominated by a corporal whose foolish insistence on strict formal discipline
leads to his own disappearance. In the third part, “Women Are Not Gentlemen”, an enemy sniper, supposed to be a
woman, is an invisible factor’ (Miller and Macartney). The first part of this work appeared in the Sunnybrook Press
publication Trio in 1931 and the whole work was reprinted as Vintage at War in 1940. A copy we have previously
handled contained a prospectus for the work, which stated a print-run of only 150, with 50 copies for presentation.
However, this copy has a printed statement of limitation to the effect that it ‘is limited to one hundred copies for
subscription’; this copy is numbered (50) and signed by the author. The front endpaper is signed boldly in pencil
by Ronald McCuiag (1908-1993), fellow Australian poet, who has underlined or added emphases to passages on
seventeen pages in soft pencil. [$150-200]
LITERATURE
167 SASSOON, Siegfried
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1931 (first illustrated edition). Large octavo, 312 pages with numerous head- and
tail-pieces plus 15 full-page colour plates and colour pictorial endpapers (all by Barnett Freedman).
Original parchment printed with a full-colour design by Freedman, top edge gilt, others uncut (and partially unopened
on the leading edges); a very fine copy with the crisp Freedman-illustrated dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine.
The original slipcase is no longer present.
The first illustrated edition of Sassoon’s classic closely-autobiographical novel (first published in 1930). The edition,
printed on English hand-made paper, was limited to only 320 numbered copies signed by both the author and the
illustrator; this is Number 150. [$2500-3000]
168 WALTERS, Oscar
Shrapnel Green and Other Verses. [A Memory of Gallipoli (cover subtitle)]
Perth, Trustees of the Perth Branch RSL Amelioration Fund (and printed by The People’s Printing and Publishing
Company of WA Limited), [1931]. Duodecimo, [ii] (plates), 34 pages.
Two-colour gate-fold decorated card covers (with the front panel designed to be narrower than the book) lightly
rubbed at the extremities; a fine copy.
‘The author was attached to the WA Section of the Third Field Company Engineers, and the verses herein contained
are the outcome of his experiences in France and Gallipoli.’ The two plates, by C.H. Percival and Walter Jardine, are
reproduced from The Bulletin, and all of the poems originally appeared there. After his war service Walters eventually
joined the editorial staff of the Westralian Worker, edited by John Curtin. ‘You will find between the covers of Shrapnel
Green the spirit, grave and gay, of the AIF. The digger with a talent for elocution will find some wonderful material
therein for the entertainment of his cobbers at the next smoko. The book is a splendid “bob’s” worth and 75 percent of
that amount helps to lift some digger over a stile’ (from a review in the Western Mail, 23 April 1931).
[$100-200]
LITERATURE
169 WHEEN, Arthur Wesley
Two Masters
London, Faber and Faber, 1929. Octavo, 32 pages.
Orange papered boards lightly bumped at the extremities; spine slightly chipped in three places, and sunned (as are
thin strips on front and rear covers); a very good copy (internally, the thick uncut paper is in fine condition).
Mounted on the front pastedown are two small monogram labels, and the pictorial bookplate etched by the Suffolk
painter Anna Airy for Sir Harry Newton (1875-1951), a British Conservative MP. Criterion Miscellany Number 1.
This is number 104 of only 150 copies in boards, numbered and signed by the author. Arthur Wesley Wheen (18971971), soldier and librarian, ‘was posted as a signaller to the new 54th Battalion at Tel-el-Kebir on 16 February 1916
and crossed to France in June. For repairing cut telephone lines and maintaining communications in the midst of
enemy artillery barrages “at great personal risk and self sacrifice”, he was awarded the Military Medal and two Bars:
at Petillon in July 1916, at Beaulencourt in March 1917 and at Villers-Bretonneux on 25 April 1918’. He rose through
the ranks and ended the war a Lieutenant. He was a Rhodes Scholar, and after graduating from Oxford, worked for
decades as a librarian at the Victoria and Albert Museum. ‘He mixed in literary circles that included (Sir) Herbert
Read and T.S. Eliot. His only listed original work is a short story, “Two masters”, first published in the London Mercury
in November 1924. A highly gifted linguist, he was better known for his translations from the German, most notably
that of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front which has remained a classic in Wheen’s version since
its appearance in March 1929’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). This brief work, featuring an Australian sergeant
working behind the lines on the Western Front, is drawn from his wartime experiences. Not in Dornbusch; not in
Fielding and O’Neill. [$150-200]
170 WILLIAMSON, Henry
The Patriot’s Progress. Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock. Related by Henry Williamson and drawn
by William Kermode
London, Geoffrey Bles (and printed by the Euston Press), 1930 (first edition, deluxe issue). Large octavo, [x], 196 pages
with 125 linocuts.
Quarter parchment and cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (and partially unopened); flyleaves offset and a little foxed;
cloth on the rear cover lightly unevenly sunned; marginal tear to one leaf expertly sealed; an excellent copy.
Number 305 of 350 copies of the large-paper issue of the first edition, signed by both the author and the artist. The
genesis of this classic anti-war novel is explained in the author’s preface to the 1968 Macdonald edition: ‘The idea
of The Patriot’s Progress grew from a suggestion, in 1928, that I should write captions for a set of lino-cuts which
illustrated the Great War.... They are done by an Australian soldier who served [as did Williamson] on the Western
Front’. William Archer Kermode (1895-1959) was born in Tasmania to a pioneering family, but was living in England
when the war broke out. He rose through the ranks in the Royal Engineers and the Tank Corps, and was awarded an
MC in the Battle of Amiens. ‘In the mid-twenties (thought to be 1925-28) Kermode attended the Grosvenor School of
Art run by the well-known wood-engraver Iain MacNab, where another teacher was the outstanding lino-cut artist
Claude Flight’ (The Henry Williamson Society website). [$200-300]
171 WILLIAMSON, Henry
The Wet Flanders Plain
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1929 (revised edition)/ 1929 (a limited edition by Beaumont Press). Small octavo,
148 pages.
Black cloth; endpapers lightly offset; a fine copy with the unclipped dustwrapper fine but for a tiny tear and light
associated creasing to the rear panel near the foot of the spine.
The front panel of the dustwrapper quotes from a contemporary review: ‘easily the best anti-war book written in
English ... His book recounts the nine days which he spent on “The Wet Flanders Plain” when he revisited France
as what he calls “soldat retourné” ... Through his ghostly eyes he sees the waste, the wickedness, the folly, in blessed
proportion’. [$200-300]
LITERATURE
Official and other Histories
172 ASPINALL-OGLANDER, Brigadier-General Cecil Faber
History of the Great War based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section, Committee
of Imperial Defence. Military Operations. Gallipoli.... Maps and Sketches compiled by Major A.F. Becke ...
Volume 1: Inception of the Campaign to May 1915. Volume 2: May 1915 to the Evacuation
London, William Heinemann, 1929 and 1932. Octavo, two volumes of text, each with a matching volume of ‘Maps and
Appendices’. Volume 1 [text]: xviii (last blank), 380 pages plus 17 pages of plates and 19 colour sketch maps (one on
the front pastedown, several folding). Volume 1 [maps and appendices]: viii (last blank), 77 pages plus 4 large folding
colour maps and a diagram in an endpocket. Volume 2 [text]: xvi (last blank), 517 pages plus 18 pages of plates and 34
colour sketch maps (one on the front endpapers, several folding). Volume 2 [maps and appendices]: viii (last blank),
85 pages plus 6 large folding colour maps in an endpocket.
Cloth a little sunned on the spines; a few corners lightly bumped; edges lightly foxed; endpapers lightly offset;
essentially a fine set. The complete official British account of the Dardanelles Campaign. The appendices are
particularly important, being largely Instructions and Orders covering the Landing (Volume 1) and the operations
at Suvla Bay and Cape Helles (Volume 2). They do much to resolve conjecture about the intentions of the military
commanders. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 217. [4 items]. [$400-500]
173 BEAN, Charles Edwin Woodrow (and others)
Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18 [series cover title of the complete twelve-volume set]
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1935, 1936 (two volumes), 1937, 1938 (four volumes), 1939 (three volumes) and 1942
(one volume); the sixth volume is the first edition of 1942, the others are mixed editions ranging from the third to the
eleventh. Octavo, twelve volumes, each approximately 700 pages with numerous maps plus plates.
Original maroon cloth; two volumes (4 and 5) are very lightly flecked; five volumes have lightly offset or foxed
endpapers; basically this is a very fine matched set in all respects (with the last volume even retaining its original
plain paper dustwrapper, with a few short tears expertly sealed).
The background story to this epic work, and the groundbreaking role Charles Bean played in it, are too well-known
to be retold here. Suffice to say, this history will continue to stand the test of time. Complete sets, in mixed editions,
are not rare (indeed, some volumes were reprinted upwards of fifteen times), but sets in pristine condition such as this
one most definitely are. Dornbusch 209 (the complete set), 353 (Volumes 1-2), 294-297 (Volumes 3-6), 391 (Volume
7), 374 (Volume 10), 219 (Volume 11) and 223 (Volume 12); Fielding and O’Neill, page 208 (the complete set); TrigellisSmith 725-36 (the complete set). Dornbusch often provides useful information about dates of reprints and revised
editions. [12 items]. [$1500-2000]
OFFICIAL AND OTHER HISTORIES
174 BUTLER, Colonel Arthur Graham (and others)
The Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918 [series cover title of the
complete three-volume set]
Melbourne (Volume 1) and Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1938 (second edition)/ 1930, 1940 and 1943. Octavo,
three volumes, xxvi, 873, [1] (publisher’s advertisement for the Bean and Butler sets) pages with 4 diagrams, 10 graphs,
8 maps and a full-page illustration (page 586), plus 4 diagrams, 8 graphs, 16 maps (including 2 double-page maps) and
128 plates; xvi, 1010, [1] (tipped-in publisher’s advertisement for the Bean and Butler sets, verso blank) pages with 37
diagrams, 12 graphs, 11 maps and a full-page illustration of ‘Conventional Signs’ (page 959), plus 2 maps and 91 plates;
and xx, 1103 pages plus 35 plates numbered with letters, and 10 diagrams (all strong medical images), and 34 numbered
plates (one with 5 small portraits) of more general but relevant interest.
Dark blue cloth (uniformly matched in colour); the first volume has lightly foxed endpapers and edges; the leading
edge of the third volume is lightly marked; overall an exceptional set in the original mailing boxes with printed labels
on the ‘spine’ (and the last two books are complete with their original plain paper dustwrappers, now a little torn).
The medical companion to the twelve-volume Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918; all volumes are
scarce (and the third volume must be deemed rare). Arthur Graham Butler (1872-1949) ‘was appointed regimental
medical officer of the 9th Battalion which sailed for Egypt in September.... Butler was in one of the first boats ashore
at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 ... He was the only medical officer to win the Distinguished Service Order at Anzac,
where he remained until October ... In 1923, “against his wish, but from a sense of public duty”, he agreed to write
the official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war; the task was to occupy the next twenty years
of his life. He gave up his practice’ and lived in relative poverty. He wrote all three volumes ‘except part of the first....
His literary work displays the qualities that he showed on the battlefield: courage, compassion and meticulousness.
He sought to isolate and analyse important problems as a guide to future policy and management. His arguments
are trenchant, his scholarship exact and penetrating. His wide-ranging, critical statistical appendices are especially
valuable and shocking in their implications. His three volumes are among the most distinguished war history texts
of the English-speaking nations’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). Dornbusch 254; Fielding and O’Neill, page
209; Trigellis-Smith 313-315 and 737-739. None of these tackle the pagination, let alone the plate count, and we fully
understand why this is so. We thought we had got it right in the Braga Catalogue, but alas no. The above details are a
great improvement, but we stand to be corrected (and more power to you!). For the record, the title pages of the three
volumes of the history give the following information, for what it’s worth: ‘With 228 illustrations, maps, and graphs’
(Volume 1); ‘With 212 illustrations, maps, and graphs’ (Volume 2); and ‘With 85 illustrations, graphs, and diagrams’
(Volume 3). Last, and probably least, we suggest that the only difference between the first and second editions of
Volume 1 is that the errata slip on page xi in the former is no longer required, as the eight corrections have been made
in the second edition. [$1500-2000]
175 CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer
The World Crisis
London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, April 1923 to 1931 (all first editions). Octavo, six volumes, with many
diagrams in the text plus a total of 47 maps and charts (39 folding), 14 full-page plates, and errata slips in the first and
fourth volumes.
Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines and in blind on the front panels; first two volumes a little foxed on the
edges, with minimal light scattered foxing elsewhere; acidic endpapers in the fourth volume tanned; essentially a fine
set.
Churchill’s seminal account of the Great War, about which his bibliographer Frederick Woods writes: ‘The volumes
contain some of Churchill’s finest writing, weaving the many threads together with majestic ease, describing the
massive battles in terms which fitly combine relish of the literary challenge with an awareness of the sombre tragedy
of the events’ (Woods A31[a]). The first volume is inscribed ‘To Col. Carey Evans from Her Excellency. June 26, 1923’
(from the Vicereine of India to the physician of her husband, the Viceroy, Lord Reading). Churchill needs no further
introduction, but the recipient of this first volume (and presumed original owner of the entire set) certainly deserves
one. Sir Thomas John Carey-Evans (1884-1947) served at Anzac through the whole of the Gallipoli campaign in charge
of the medical staff looking after Indian troops. From 1916-18 he served in Mesopotamia. He married Olwen, the elder
daughter of British Prime Minister, David Lloyd-George, in 1917 and was knighted in 1924. He was mentioned in
despatches three times (5 November 1915, 13 July 1916, and 27 August 1918) and was awarded the Military Cross (3 June
1916). In 1921 he was appointed Surgeon to HE the Viceroy of India, Lord Reading. In an (unpublished?) letter to The
Times dated 10 October 1927, Carey-Evans defended the performance of the Anzac troops: ‘As one who was present at
the landing at Anzac on April 25, 1915 and saw practically every phase of the Anzac occupation up to December 18th
the day before the final evacuation I feel I have some justification in reporting any slur on the courage and bravery
of the Australian and New Zealand troops. What they accomplished on April 25th was almost superhuman. It is only
necessary to see Queensland Ridge and the wild country inland to understand the natural obstacles in their way
apart from taking into consideration the inherent bravery of the Turkish soldier himself. I have never met men who
were so utterly and callously indifferent to danger or to death. After the terrific onslaught by the Turks on the Anzac
position in May, and their complete repulse by these troops the Turks never seriously attacked the Australians and
New Zealand troops again. They had had their lesson’ (from a small personal file on Carey-Evans in the Australian
War Memorial). [$1500-2000]
176 DUBAIL, Général and Maréchal FAYOLLE
La Guerre racontée par nos Généraux [The War as told by Our
Generals]
Paris, Librairie Schwarz, 1920. Large quarto, three volumes, copiously
illustrated throughout, including many plates and maps (some in colour).
Full leather with plenty of stylish gilt lettering and decoration, and a large
multi-coloured enamelled medallion (70 × 70 mm) of a poilu mounted
on each front cover; leather a trifle scuffed, spines a little sunned; acidic
paper uniformly tanned; an excellent set of a most handsome production.
A leaflet describing the binding, and outing those responsible, is loosely
inserted in each volume.
This is an early attempt at a comprehensive account of the war in France,
complete with detailed maps and plans, aimed at a popular market (what
we now call a coffee-table publication). The two central authors were both
senior French Generals. Augustin Yvon Edmond Dubail (1854-1931) was
perhaps best known for being given command of the Armée de l’Est in
February 1915 as it was committed to Verdun. Marie Émile Fayolle (1852-1928) was made head of the French First
Army in 1917, and spent much of the ensuing year in Italy shoring up the front after the disaster at Caporetto. He
returned for the victorious second battle of the Marne, and occupied Mayence. He was made maréchal de France in
1921. [3 items].
[$300-400]
177 EDMONDS, Brigadier-General Sir James Edward [and others]
History of the Great War based on Official Documents ... Military Operations. France and Belgium
London, Macmillan and Company, 1922 to 1940. Octavo, 22 volumes, comprising 2 text volumes and 2 portfolios
of maps (1914); 2 text volumes and 2 portfolios of maps (1915); 2 text volumes, 2 appendix volumes and 1 portfolio
of maps (1916); 1 text volume (of 3), 1 appendix volume and 1 portfolio of maps (1917); and 3 text volumes (of 5), 1
appendix volume and 2 portfolios of maps (1918).
Red cloth, uniformly bright, with the spines only lightly faded; trifling signs of use and age; essentially a fine set. An
almost complete run of this standard work in handsome original condition, lacking only four text volumes which
did not appear until 1947-1948 (two volumes describing the second half of 1917, and the two final volumes for 1918).
The main author of the series, Brigadier-General Sir James Edward Edmonds (1861-1956) ‘has had the most profound
impact on the historiography and popular image of the First World War through his sometimes controversial work
as the Official Historian of British Military Operations’ (online promotional material for The Memoirs of Sir James
Edmonds, published in 2013). The maps were compiled by Major A.F Becke; as the preface makes clear, the smaller
maps printed in the text volumes were meant to be completely sufficient for the general reader, and the portfolios of
larger maps were available separately ‘for the use of students of war’. Fielding and O’Neill, pages 215-7. [22 items]. [$1200-1600]
178 FALLS, Captain Cyril
History of the Great War based on Official Documents ... Military Operations. Macedonia.... Maps compiled
by Major A.F. Becke
London, HMSO, 1933 and 1935. Octavo, two volumes of text, well-illustrated with maps and plates (some folding),
together with the two uniformly-bound companion volumes of maps.
Cloth a little sunned on the spines; essentially a fine set.
An important history of the lesser-known campaign in the Balkans. Cyril Bentham Falls (1888-1971) was Professor
of Military History at the University of Oxford from 1946 to 1954. In his preface to the first volume he writes: ‘On
first examining the material, it appeared to the compiler that his method here would have to be the converse of that
employed in the history of the Palestine campaign on which he had previously been engaged. There it was considered
necessary to make only incidental allusion to politics; here it has seemed desirable to set the military history in a
political framework and to trace all events from their political sources’. Fielding and O’Neill, page 217. [4 items]. [$300-400]
179 MacMUNN, Lieutenant-General Sir George and Captain Cyril FALLS
History of the Great War based on Official Documents ... Military Operations. Egypt & Palestine ... Maps
compiled by Major A.F. Becke
London, HMSO, 1928 to 1930. Octavo, three volumes of text, well-illustrated with maps and plates (some folding),
together with the two uniformly-bound companion volumes of maps.
Cloth; name-stamp on the flyleaf of the first volume, and a different ownership signature in pencil in the second one;
essentially a fine set of text volumes with the slightly chipped dustwrappers (and rare thus). The first volume of maps
is slightly marked on the spine and top edge, with a short sealed tear on the rear panel; the spine of the second volume
of maps is sunned and slightly marked; the contents of both are in fine condition.
The preface commences with ‘This history is designed to provide an authoritative account of British military
operations during the war in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, and of certain minor operations more or less connected
with them: the Arab Revolt against the Turks in the Hejaz, the expedition against Darfur, and the Turkish attack on
Aden’. The two authors jointly prepared the first volume; Cyril Falls was the sole author of the other two. Sir George
MacMunn (1869-1952) was a career soldier, a veteran of India, Burma and South Africa (and mentioned in dispatches
twelve times). He served as British Quartermaster-General of the Dardanelles and later continued in the Middle East.
Cyril Bentham Falls (1888-1971) went on to become Professor of Military History at the University of Oxford from
1946 to 1954. Fielding and O’Neill, page 215. [5 items]. [$600-800]
180 MONTGOMERY[-MASSINGBERD], Major-General Sir Archibald Armar
The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1919]. Large quarto, xxiv (last blank), 370, [1] (colophon) pages plus a folding map,
3 diagrams (one folding) and 105 plates (including 12 large folding panoramas) from sketches and photographs.
Gilt-decorated pictorial cloth; edges lightly foxed; a fine copy, complete with the matching case of maps, containing
a further 5 folding panoramas and 19 large folding colour maps. All contents and the case are in fine condition (apart
from light sunning to the spine).
An impressive production showcasing the Fourth Army, British Expeditionary Force, in the Hundred Days Offensive.
This was a rapid series of Allied victories starting with the Battle of Amiens, and culminating in the Armistice.
The AIF, together with the Canadian army, formed the spearhead of the Fourth Army in the great offensive that
began on August 8. The role played by the AIF is a central feature of Montgomery’s account. Australian forces played
a prominent role at Amiens, Mont St Quentin, St Quentin Canal and Montbrehain, and they are an integral part
of the story. Not least, they are over-represented in Appendix E, ‘VC Stories (Given in the words of the original
recommendations)’, being awarded twenty of the fifty VCs listed. [2 items]. [$250-350]
181 FOSTER, Brevet-Colonel William James
Operations of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine from 28th October, 1917, to 31st December, 1917.
Together with a Précis of Events prior to the 3rd Battle of Gaza
Melbourne, Army Headquarters, July 1924. Octavo, viii, 206 pages plus 2 plates, 11 full-page colour maps, and an
amendment slip tipped in on page iv (but lacking the large general folding map from the endpocket: ‘Northern Sinai
and Palestine with inset “Defences around Gaza”’).
Card covers (later rebacked neatly with cloth) a little worn and creased; mild signs of use and age; a very good copy
with contemporary ownership details on an initial blank (Renfew [sic], Broken Hill). The fall of Beersheba is featured
prominently (pages 56-72 plus 2 maps). Dornbusch 389; Fielding and O’Neill, page 204; Trigellis-Smith 260. [$100-200]
182 LIMAN von SANDERS, Generalleutnant Otto Viktor Karl
Five Years in Turkey
Annapolis, United States Naval Institute, 1927 (first edition in English)/ 1920. Octavo, x, 326 pages with 17 maps plus
4 plates and 3 two-colour folding maps in an endpocket.
Cloth very lightly bumped and flecked; acidic endpocket tanned; rear flyleaf a little foxed, with minimal light scattered
foxing elsewhere; essentially a fine copy.
Translated by Colonel Carl Reichmann from the German (the August Scherl edition, Berlin, 1920). Liman von
Sanders was head of the German military mission to the Ottoman Empire, and commander of Turkish forces during
the Dardanelles campaign and later in Sinai and Palestine. The book ‘throws light on the miserable condition of the
Turkish lines of communication. It reveals the character of the Turkish officers and men, and while it points out
their defects, it emphasizes their endurance and heroism. It frankly discloses the errors of officers in high places in
Constantinople, and as bravely discloses the mistakes of the author himself. [He] prepared the notes for this book in
Malta immediately after the Armistice, and ... has not failed to record his appreciation of his opponents in this great
struggle’ (introduction). [$150-200]
183 MACPHERSON, Major-General Sir William Grant and Major T.J. MITCHELL
Medical Services General History. Volume IV: Medical Services during the Operations on the Gallipoli
Peninsula; in Macedonia; in Mesopotamia and North West Persia; in East Africa; in the Aden Protectorate,
and in North Russia. Ambulance Transport during the War
London, HMSO, 1924. Octavo, xvi, 711 pages with 93 in-text line illustrations of ambulance transport, 178 in-text
illustrations (from photographs) and 39 maps plus 8 illustrations of ambulance transport, 3 folding charts, 3 folding
diagrams, and 13 maps (7 folding).
Green sand-grain cloth; spine a little sunned; flyleaves offset; tiny sealed tear to the bottom margin of one leaf; an
excellent copy.
One of the ‘History of the Great War based on Official Documents’ series; it is complete in itself as regards Gallipoli and
the Middle East. The print run of only 1500 copies ensures this major contribution to the subject will be perennially
scarce. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O’Neill, page 215 (poorly described). [$500-700]
184 New Guinea
Report by the Minister of State for Defence on the Military Occupation of the German New Guinea Possessions
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1922. Foolscap folio, 24 pages plus a very large folding colour map of Eastern New
Guinea (935 × 1100 mm).
Stapled as issued; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 6 (F 9187) of 1922; one of 827 copies
printed. Fielding and O’Neill, page 207; Trigellis-Smith 340 (‘The official report on the raising and subsequent
activities of the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. Roll of Honour, list of wounded’). [$150-200]
185 PRESTON, Lieutenant-Colonel The Honorable Richard Martin Peter
The Desert Mounted Corps. An Account of Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1918
London, Constable and Company, 1921. Octavo, xxiv, 356, 20 (publisher’s catalogue, dated Spring 1921) pages with 8
full-page maps plus 33 plates and 4 folding maps (3 in colour).
Later buckram with contrasting leather title-labels on the spine; trifling surface blemishes to the front endpaper where
labels have been removed; occasional signs of use (but read on!); uncoloured map neatly detached; a very good copy.
A worthy book in its own right: the five-page introduction by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel, late Commander
of the Desert Mounted Corps, sets the tone. However, this copy is uniquely important: it comes from the personal
library of General Sir Edward Hutton, and it contains numerous annotations in pencil in his hand (comprising some
480 words spread over 70 pages). The original front flyleaf, now detached and loosely inserted, carries his ownership
details (‘General Sir Edward Hutton. July 1921’), originally in pencil, later in pen, but both versions are clearly legible.
Sir Edward Thomas Henry Hutton (1848-1923), in few words, was a ‘British regular soldier and first organizer of the
Australian Army’. The Australian Dictionary of Biography continues: ‘In 1879-85 he saw much active service in Africa,
in the Zulu War (1879), the first South African War (1881), the occupation of Egypt including the battle of Tel-elKebir (1882) and the Nile Expedition (1884-85). During this period he became deeply interested in the training and
employment of mounted infantry with which he thrice served on operations. At Aldershot, England, he raised and
commanded mounted infantry units in 1888-92, becoming recognised as one of the leading proponents of this form of
mobility’. He was commandant of the New South Wales Military Forces from 1893 to 1896. He returned to England a
convinced Imperialist, and quickly began to propagate his ideas on Australian defence. In a widely-reported address,
the concept of the Australian soon to be popularized by C.E.W. Bean was already discernible:
The Australian is a born horseman. With his long, lean muscular thighs he is more at home on a horse than on his
feet, and is never seen to a greater advantage than when mounted and riding across bush or a difficult country. Fine
horsemen, hardy, self-reliant, and excellent marksmen, they are the beau ideal of Mounted Riflemen. Accustomed to
shift for themselves in the Australian bush, and under the most trying conditions of heat and cold, they would thrive
where soldiers unaccustomed to bush life would die.... In 1901 the first Australian government appointed Hutton to
command and organize its land forces.
Loosely inserted in an endpocket of this copy is a contemporary review of the book extracted from the journal United
Empire, and an autograph letter signed by the author (large octavo, 2 pages on Woburn Hill, Addlestone letterhead,
addressed ‘Dear General’). In the letter, dated 26 November 1921, Preston thanks Hutton for his kind words in praise
of the book:
Such praise from you is particularly valuable to me, coming, as it does, from the pioneer and founder of that
splendid body of Australian Light Horse with which I had the great privilege to serve. I was very interested in your
account of your long talk with General Allenby, and I fully agree with what you write as to the mischievous manner
in which he was misquoted or his praises suppressed by a certain section of the Australian Press. I remember his
saying, on one occasion, that the Australian soldiers had no superiors in the world as offensive fighters, but I do
not think this opinion was ever recorded in the Australian Press.... but I think that those who fought under him
in Palestine and Syria are sufficiently numerous and influential to put a stop in time to the work of the Sinn Fein
element of the Australian Press.
Hutton’s letter to Preston was clearly based on a very close reading of the book, with annotating pencil in hand. For
every comment along the lines of ‘A splendid initiative worthy of the best cavalry traditions’ and ‘A splendid incident
most graphically told’, there are personal observations such as this one regarding the famous charge of the 4th Light
Horse Brigade at Beersheba on 31 October 1917 (pages 30 and 31). ‘Field Marshal Viscount Allenby told me himself
4th Oct 1921 that this was one of the most gallant and daring episodes of the war. A fight typical of Australian valor.
He told me that he decorated [General William] Grant with the DSO on the field of battle’—and for good measure,
Hutton has signed this statement. Inscriptions in another hand on the detached original flyleaf indicate that the book
was subsequently in the library of General Sir Edwin Alderson (1859-1927, at one stage during the war in charge of
the Canadian Expeditionary Force until he was sidelined); in 1934 it was presented by his widow to the Royal United
Services Library. Chauvel’s introduction states that the Desert Mounted Corps was composed of many Australians
and New Zealanders (as well as ‘British Yeomanry, and Territorial Horse Artillery and Indian Cavalry, with French
Cavalry added for the last operations’), so it is surprising that the book is not in Dornbusch, nor in Fielding and
O’Neill. Trigellis-Smith 262.
[$4000-6000]
186 Report of the Royal Australian Naval College for 1915; together with an Abstract Report for the Year 1914
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1916. Foolscap folio, 38 pages plus 29 plates (on seven pages) and 3 maps (2 folding).
Stapled as issued; small chip to the front leaf near one staple; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper
Number 308 of 1914-15-16; one of 950 copies printed. Not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$100-200]
187 Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Austria ... Signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye,
10th September, 1919
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1919. Foolscap folio, iv, 66, [2] (blank) pages plus a large folding map (‘Autriche’).
Stapled as issued; minor conservation to the leading margin of the first leaf and the blank last leaf; an excellent copy.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 4 of 1920; only 840 copies printed. [$100-200]
188 Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. Signed at Versailles, 28th June, 1919
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1919. Foolscap folio, [vi], 95, [3] (blank) pages plus 4 large folding maps (‘Boundaries
of Germany’; ‘Territory of Saar Basin’; ‘Danzig’; and ‘Schleswig’).
Stapled as issued; short repaired tear to the stub of the first map; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper
Number 165 of 1917-18-19; only 1200 copies printed. [$100-200]
Australian Unit Histories
Infantry Battalions
189 1st Battalion. STACY, Lieutenant-Colonel Bertie Vandeleur, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick James
KINDON and Lieutenant Herbert Victor CHEDGEY
The History of the First Battalion AIF, 1914-1919
[Sydney, printed by James J. Lee for the 1st Battalion AIF History Committee, 1931]. Octavo, 152 pages plus 16 pages of
plates and a large folding map tipped in on the rear flyleaf.
Quarter (renewed) cloth and original two-colour decorated papered boards (with the battalion colour patch printed
on the front cover); hinges (both inner and outer) a little tender; covers a little marked and scuffed, with slight surface
loss at the papered edges; scattered foxing throughout (heavier near the plates); short tears to the map expertly sealed;
overall a very good copy of a rare unit history, now housed in a custom-made clamshell box. Dornbusch 337; Fielding
and O’Neill, page 225; Trigellis-Smith 200. [$900-1200]
AUSTRALIAN UNIT HISTORIES
190 2nd Battalion. CAVILL, Harold Walter
Imperishable Anzacs. A Story of Australia’s Famous First Brigade. From the Diary of Pte. H.W. Cavill, No. 27,
2nd Battalion, First Inf. Brigade
Sydney, William Brooks, 1916. Quarto, 94, [95-112] pages with ‘67 illustrations’ (including portraits and 2 full-page
tinted illustrations) plus a colour plate by Ben Jordan. A small slip printed in red advertising ‘The Ideal Gift. A leather
bound COPY DE LUXE ...’ is bound in at the rear. (Other artists include D.H. Souter, Harry Julius, George Taylor and
Oliver Brock).
Original gilt-pictorial overlapping blue suede bound over the original flush-cut card covers with the title in green
and a cropped version of the colour plate mounted on the front cover; leather slightly sunned and rubbed, with a tiny
surface hole to the rear leading edge; minimal light scattered foxing; a fine copy. The rare, and very attractive, deluxe
edition. Dornbusch 355; Fielding and O’Neill, page 242; Trigellis-Smith 190. [$500-600]
191 2nd Battalion. TAYLOR, Frederick William and Timothy Arthur CUSACK
Nulli Secundus. A History of the Second Battalion AIF, 1914-1919
Sydney, printed by New Century Press, 1942. Octavo, 354, [3] (honours list), [1] (colophon) pages with a diagram plus
57 plates; there are no flyleaves, but this is standard issue with this publication.
Cloth lightly scuffed and marked, unevenly sunned, and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; spine sunned,
with minimal wear near the ends and the gilt lettering now barely legible; edges foxed; front inner hinge lightly
consolidated; overall, a very good copy. Both authors were members of the battalion: Lieutenant Frederick Taylor was
in the 14th Reinforcements, Private Timothy Cusack in the 19th Reinforcements. Dornbusch 339; Fielding and O’Neill,
page 225; Trigellis-Smith 201. [$500-600]
192 3rd Battalion. WREN, Captain Eric
Randwick to Hargicourt. History of the 3rd Battalion, AIF
Sydney, Ronald G. McDonald, 1935. Octavo, xxxii, 400 (last blank), [2] (notes on some of the plates, with the colophon
on the verso) pages with 12 maps plus 49 pages of plates and endpaper maps (a bird’s-eye view of Gallipoli).
Cloth a little rubbed and scuffed, with a small discoloured patch to the front cover near the head of the spine; flyleaves
foxed and offset, with light scattered foxing elsewhere; a very good copy.
The author was an original member of the battalion; he ‘lost his right arm as the result of injuries received at the battle
of Pozières ... [and was awarded] the French Croix-de-Guerre’ (from the Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer,
17 October 1916). Dornbusch 345; Fielding and O’Neill, page 255; Trigellis-Smith 202. [$400-500]
193 5th Battalion. KEOWN, Albert William
Forward with the Fifth. The Story of Five Years’ War Service. Fifth Inf. Battalion, AIF
Melbourne, Specialty Press (Published by Authority of 5th Battalion ... Regimental Association), 1921. Octavo, 326, [2]
(blank, colophon) pages plus 24 plates.
Pictorial cloth moderately flecked on the rear cover (less so on the front); flyleaves tanned, with a short contemporary
inscription partially erased from the front one; edges lightly foxed; an excellent copy.
The author was ‘Late 571 Pte. 5th Batt’. Dornbusch 319; Fielding and O’Neill, page 225; Trigellis-Smith 205. [$200-300]
194 7th Battalion. DEAN, Arthur and Eric Wilkins GUTTERIDGE
The Seventh Battalion AIF. Résumé of Activities of the Seventh Battalion in the Great War, 1914-1918
Melbourne, printed by W. & K. Purbrick Pty Ltd, 1933. Octavo, 191 pages with 7 maps plus 3 portraits.
Crocodile-patterned cloth lightly rubbed; endpapers tanned; leading edge lightly foxed; an excellent copy. With the
armorial-themed bookplate of Ernest J. Martin (RAF, Clifton College, RUSI ...).
Both authors were members of the battalion; Eric Gutteridge was a lieutenant-colonel and the medical officer, Arthur
Dean was a lieutenant. Dornbusch 307; Fielding and O’Neill, page 225; Trigellis-Smith 207. [$600-800]
195 9th Battalion. HARVEY, Norman Kinamond
From ANZAC to the Hindenburg Line. The History of the 9th Battalion AIF
Brisbane, 9th Battalion AIF Association (printed by William Brooks and Co.), 1941. Octavo, [xvi], 300 pages with 27
maps plus 51 plates and 2 folding maps.
Cloth (with the battalion colour patch printed on the front cover); an exceptional copy.
Queensland’s first infantry contribution to the war. The foreword states that part of the battalion ‘was, by a few
minutes, the first to land’ at Gallipoli. In early 1916, the 49th Battalion was raised, with approximately half of its recruits
being these Gallipoli veterans. Dornbusch 315; Fielding and O’Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 209. [$1500-2000]
196 9th Battalion. WRENCH, Clarence Meredith
Campaigning with The Fighting 9th. (In and Out of the Line with the 9BN AIF), 1914-1919
Brisbane, Boolarong Publications for the 9th Battalion Association, 1985. Large octavo, xxvi, 598 pages with several
maps (including 2 double-page) and numerous illustrations (from photographs).
Full leather; trifling surface abrasion to the front top corner; an excellent copy. Number 76 of only 118 copies of the
rare deluxe limited edition, with a bookplate numbered and signed by the author mounted on the front flyleaf. This
copy has the name ‘Herbert C. Rose’ printed in gilt on the front cover; although it is in a different font to the rest of
the cover printing, it may be a feature of the deluxe edition. A trade edition, in papered boards with a dustwrapper,
was also issued.
‘Clarrie Wrench is now in his 88th year. He served in the ranks and as a Lieutenant with the 9th Battalion in the First
World War’ (blurb from the dustwrapper of the trade edition). He was ‘awarded the Military Cross on the 19th July
1918 at Meteren, in one of the Battalion’s most brilliant and unrehearsed operations’; this history is a ‘comprehensive
sequel’ to Harvey’s 1941 publication (the foreword). Not surprisingly, this is the last First World War battalion history
to have been written by a former member. Loosely inserted are two related pamphlets: Recollections of the 1914-1918
War, by 5359 G.V. Evans MM of the 9th Battalion (octavo, [viii], 47 pages with illustrations plus printed wrappers);
and a copy of The Fighting Ninth (Number 13, December 1960), the official journal of the 9th Battalion AIF Association
(octavo, 31 pages with illustrations plus the wrappers; loosely inserted is a ‘Freedom of the City’ certificate). The latter
pamphlet has the bookplate of Hal Richardson (1916-2001, journalist and author, and a prisoner of war in Sumatra
with the 8th Division). Trigellis-Smith 210. [3 items]. [$300-400]
197 10th Battalion. [LIMB, Lieutenant Arthur]
History of the 10th Battalion AIF [1914-1918. Egypt, Gallipoli, France, Belgium (cover subtitle)]
London, Cassell, 1919. Octavo, 101 pages with 44 illustrations (after photographs) plus 4 maps (3 folding).
Original flush-cut pictorial papered boards printed in black, gilt and the battalion’s colours; a few trifling bumps and
scuffs to the front cover; an exceptional copy.
The first edition of this anonymously published book is fiendishly rare in our experience. This is only the fourth copy
we have had in over forty years as booksellers in Adelaide, and the 10th is a local battalion. Arthur Limb (1893-1920)
was a member of the battalion; he rose through the ranks, and was mentioned in dispatches three times. Although he
survived the war, he contracted pneumonia on the return journey to Australia, leading eventually to his death in May
1920. His obituary in his hometown newspaper, the Gawler Bunyip (Friday 28 May 1920), records that ‘At the close of
the war he was chosen by the Officer in Command to gather material from military sources, and proceed to Oxford to
write up the history of the 10th Battalion. The book has been published’; a photocopy of most of the obituary is loosely
inserted. Dornbusch 325; Fielding and O’Neill, page 226 (incorrectly calling the author ‘Lumb’); Trigellis-Smith 212. [$800-1000]
198 10th Battalion. LOCK, Cecil Bert Lovell
The Fighting 10th. A South Australian Centenary Souvenir of the 10th Battalion, AIF, 1914-19
Adelaide, Webb and Son, 1936. Octavo, [x], 320 pages.
Red papered boards lettered in black; a fine copy.
The author was ‘Late No. 624, Private Original 10th Battalion’. Dornbusch 322; Fielding and O’Neill, page 226; TrigellisSmith 211 (none of them noting that the first impression binding is lettered in gilt, the second in black). [$300-400]
199 11th Battalion. BELFORD, Captain Walter Cheyne
‘Legs-Eleven’. Being the Story of the 11th Battalion (AIF) in the Great War of 1914-1918
Perth, Imperial Printing Company, 1940. Octavo, xii (first and last blank), 667 pages with 6 maps and 68 illustrations.
The first leaf is in fact the front flyleaf, with the half-title printed on the verso.
Cloth; endpapers offset; an exceptional copy with the very rare dustwrapper (slightly creased around the edges, and
sunned and a little marked on the spine).
The author was appointed to the battalion in September 1915, with the rank of second lieutenant. Dornbusch 299;
Fielding and O’Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 213. [$1500-2000]
200 12th Battalion. NEWTON, Leslie Morriss
The Story of the Twelfth. A Record of the 12th Battalion AIF during the Great War of 1914-1918
Hobart, Walch and Sons (for the 12th Battalion Association), 1925. Small octavo, xii, 508 pages with vignette illustrations
plus 12 folding maps and 21 plates.
Contrasting quarter cloth; minimal light foxing; an exceptional copy with the colour pictorial dustwrapper (with
a few trifling blemishes to the spine and rear panel), now protected in a custom-made clamshell box. It would be
difficult to imagine, let alone find, a copy the equal of this one; indeed, in our experience, it has been difficult to find
a copy in even very good condition, to say nothing of the cracking dustwrapper.
The artist is credited in the preface: Corporal H.G. Kelly. The author was an original member and ‘Late Lieutenant and
Adjutant’ of the battalion (half of which was recruited in Tasmania, with the balance from SA and WA). Dornbusch
333; Fielding and O’Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 214. [$1000-1500]
201 13th Battalion. WHITE, Captain Thomas Alexander
The History of the Thirteenth Battalion, AIF. [The Fighting Thirteenth (cover title)]
Sydney, Tyrrells Ltd, for the 13th Battalion AIF Committee, 1924. Quarto, 168 pages with 20 sketch maps or plans and
3 pages of plates.
Papered boards (with the battalion colour patch printed on the front cover) lightly stained, and a little rubbed and
bumped at the extremities, with slight wear and minimal loss to the sunned spine; endpapers offset; a very good copy
(internally excellent).
The title page is worth quoting in full: ‘The History of the Thirteenth Battalion, A.I.F. By Thomas A. White, (Captain,
13th Bn., A.I.F.) (Author of Diggers Abroad.) To “The Gamest Old Man” Our Honoured and Beloved Colonel Granville
John Burnage, C.B., V.D. Our First Commanding Officer and to The Memory of our Gallant Young Colonel The
Late Douglas Gray Marks, D.S.O., M.C., (also Serbian Eagle), who after continuous Glorious War Service from the
beginning to the end of the Great War, gave his life in an attempt to rescue a stranger from the undertow at Palm
Beach on the 25th January, 1920, at the age of 24, the author respectfully dedicates this Story, knowing that, in doing
so, he represents the wishes of all ranks of the “Fighting Thirteenth,” who knew them. Two Originals’. Dornbusch 341;
202 14th Battalion. WANLISS, Newton
The History of the Fourteenth Battalion, AIF. Being the Story of the Vicissitudes of an Australian Unit during
the Great War
Melbourne, The Arrow Printery (for the 14th Battalion and 4th Brigade Association), 1929. Octavo, xiv, 416 pages with
16 maps plus a tipped-in dedication leaf (printed with the battalion’s colour patch) and 17 plates.
Cloth flecked, and rubbed, bumped and lightly worn at the corners; spine sunned and a little worn at the extremities;
flyleaves tanned; ‘14th Bn 1939’ [sic] written in felt-tipped pen on the bottom edge; a decent copy (internally excellent).
The ownership signature of Major George Batchelor is written on the front flyleaf. 3623 George Conybear Batchelor
enlisted in 1915 and served with the 2nd and 5th Divisional Signal Companies, ending up with the rank of sergeant. He
finished his Second World War service with the rank of Major. His annotations in ballpoint pen appear on four pages
(7, 36, 37 and 358); two of these make reference to members of the Ballarat YMCA Scouts. This history of ‘Jacka’s Mob’
has a three-page foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash. Dornbusch 340; Fielding and O’Neill, page 226;
Trigellis-Smith 216. [$500-600]
203 15th Battalion. CHATAWAY, Lieutenant Thomas Percival
History of the 15th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces, War 19141918.... Revised and edited by Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Goldenstedt
Brisbane, William Brooks and Co., 1948. Octavo, [xiv], 327 pages plus 19
pages of plates (mainly portraits).
Cloth (with the battalion colour patch printed on the front cover) slightly
bumped and rubbed, and a little flecked; trifling production flaw to
the corner of one leaf (folded back on itself before being trimmed); an
excellent copy. Small ink marks against one name in the nominal roll (1926
Alfred Allen Carpenter); perhaps this was originally his copy? The author,
a Gallipoli veteran, rose through the ranks. Dornbusch 303; Fielding and
O’Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 218.
[$600-800]
204 16th Battalion. LONGMORE, Captain Cyril
The Old Sixteenth. Being a Record of the 16th Battalion AIF, during the Great War, 1914-1918.... With Foreword
by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash ...
Perth, History Committee of the 16th Battalion Association, 1929. Octavo, x (last blank), 274 pages with 5 maps and 42
illustrations (many after photographs) plus 5 plates (including 3 folding panoramas).
Buckram slightly sunned or mottled, a little flecked, and lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; an excellent
copy. Cyril Longmore had previously written Eggs-a-Cook, the history of his own battalion, the 44th. Dornbusch 324;
205 17th Battalion. MACKENZIE, Lieutenant-Colonel Keith Wemyss
The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion AIF in the Great War, 1914-1918
Sydney, printed by Shipping Newspapers [for the Seventeenth Battalion Association], 1946. Octavo, 376 pages with a
few diagrams, 2 maps and 62 plates plus a corrigenda slip tipped in at page 16.
Cloth very slightly bumped; endpapers offset and foxed, with minimal foxing to the top edge; an excellent copy.
The author enlisted as a private in January 1915; he saw action at Gallipoli. He rose rapidly through the ranks, and
was awarded the MC and Bar. The nominal roll (34 pages) and detailed Honour Roll (15 pages) are accompanied by a
curious ‘List of Members of the 17th Battalion who served under an Assumed Name’ (there are 30 on it). Dornbusch
206 22nd Battalion. GORMAN, Captain Eugene
‘With The Twenty-Second’. A History of the Twenty-Second Battalion, AIF, with an Introduction by General
Sir W.R. Birdwood
Melbourne, H.H. Champion, Australasian Authors’ Agency, 1919. Quarto, 132 pages with a frontispiece (by Lieutenant
Will Dyson) plus 34 full-page plates.
Quarter cloth (with paper title-labels on the spine) and papered boards (printed with the battalion’s colour patch);
cloth spine a little sunned; front board a little marked, with slight surface loss; light wear to the extremities; endpapers
offset; edges a little foxed; a decent copy (internally excellent).
The author served with the battalion, and was awarded the MC. In his preface he records that ‘Most of the book was
written on the Somme at irregular intervals, in dugouts or ruined villages, or beneath that well-known tarpaulin
which, in the forward area, served as Quartermaster’s Store. The concluding chapters were written in Belgium’. Loosely
inserted is a copy of the 22nd Battalion Association’s journal, Twenty-Second’s Echo (Number 8, issued on Anzac Day,
1952: octavo, 16 pages). Dornbusch 313; Fielding and O’Neill, pages 34 and 227; Trigellis-Smith 223. [$300-400]
207 24th Battalion. HARVEY, Sergeant Walter James
The Red and White Diamond. Authorised History of the Twenty-fourth Battalion AIF
Melbourne, Published for the 24th Battalion Association by Alexander McCubbin, [1920]. Octavo, 340 pages plus 25
plates and 4 maps (one folding).
Papered boards lightly rubbed and bumped, with a few tiny surface indentations to the rear cover near the foot of the
hinge; acidic paper tanned as ever; front flyleaf neatly removed; notwithstanding, a very attractive copy of a book that
does not wear well (now preserved in a custom-made clamshell box).
The author was a member of the battalion; he was awarded the Military Medal at Pozières in March 1916. Dornbusch
208 26th Battalion. BROINOWSKI, Leopold Thomas (editor)
Tasmania’s War Record, 1914-1918
Hobart, Published for the Government of Tasmania by J. Walch and Sons, 1921. Tall octavo, xvi (last blank), 370 pages
plus 14 plates (one a map).
Gilt-decorated cloth lightly marked and bumped, with the spine sunned and a little rubbed at the head; flyleaves
heavily offset; paper a little tanned; notwithstanding, an excellent copy. Pages 217-370 contain ‘Tasmania’s Muster Roll,
1914-1918’. Dornbusch 213; Fielding and O’Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 195. [$200-300]
209 27th Battalion. DOLLMAN, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter and Sergeant Henry Matthew SKINNER
The Blue and Brown Diamond. A History of the 27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919
Adelaide, Lonnen and Cope, 1921. Octavo, 228 pages with 12 illustrations and 16 maps plus 18 plates and the printed
front endpaper.
Colour pictorial cloth lightly foxed on the rear cover, lightly bumped at the extremities, with minimal (and trifling)
wear to the head of the spine; acidic paper discoloured as ever, but apart from a few short slight cracks to the inner
hinges, this is the best copy we have ever seen (and we have seen many) of a book notoriously difficult to find in even
decent condition because of the poor quality of the materials used in its production. To ensure it stays this way, it
comes in a custom-made clamshell box. Dornbusch 310; Fielding and O’Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 226. [$1000-1500]
210 28th Battalion. COLLETT, Colonel Herbert Brayley
The 28th. A Record of War Service with the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919. Volume 1. Egypt, Gallipoli,
Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula [all published]
Perth, Trustees of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1922. Octavo, xvi, 221 pages
with 53 illustrations (from photographs) and 7 maps plus a large folding frontispiece and 3 folding maps; an errata
slip, which we have seen tipped in on page 175 in other copies, has here been removed, blemishing slightly the inner
margin.
Cloth (with the battalion colour patch printed on the front cover) very lightly marked and flecked; flyleaves heavily
offset (as ever); edges a little foxed; minimal light bruising to the leading edge of five consecutive leaves; an excellent
copy with the very rare dustwrapper a little foxed, marked and chipped, with a few tears expertly sealed. The
dustwrapper is quite plain, with only the following lettering on the front panel: ‘The 28th. A Record of War Service
in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19. Vol.1.’ There is an indecipherable signature in pencil on the front flyleaf; it
looks contemporary. Colonel Herbert Collett was the first Commanding Officer of the battalion. The last leaf (verso
blank) is a ‘Compiler’s Note’ which goes a long way to explaining why no other volume was published. It states in
part that ‘For the second volume a good deal of material is already in hand, but success cannot be ensured unless exmembers will co-operate with the 28th Battalion Association Committee and the Compiler’. Dornbusch 383; Fielding
and O’Neill, page 228; Trigellis-Smith 227. [$1000-1500]
211 34th Battalion
Short History of the 34th Battalion AIF
[Sydney], 34th Battalion AIF Association (and printed by Illawarra Press, Carlton, NSW), 1957. Octavo, 48 pages plus
an errata slip tipped in on page 46.
Red wrappers with the battalion’s insignia printed on the front cover; wrappers lightly scored, with a short tear to the
front leading edge expertly sealed; an excellent copy. With the bookplate of Hal Richardson (1916-2001, journalist
and author, and a prisoner of war in Sumatra with the 8th Division). Dornbusch 292; Fielding and O’Neill, page 228;
212 37th Battalion. McNICOL, Norman Gordon
The Thirty-Seventh. History of the Thirty-Seventh Battalion AIF
Melbourne, printed by The Modern Printing Company, 1936. Octavo, [xxiv] (last blank), 354, [2] pages with 12 maps
and a 3-page facsimile letter plus 20 pages of plates (from photographs).
Cloth lightly marked and a little flecked; flyleaves offset; edges lightly foxed; an excellent copy. Dornbusch 330;
213 38th Battalion. FAIREY, Eric
The 38th Battalion AIF. The Story and Official History ... Foreword by Rt. Hon. W.M. Hughes, Prime Minister
of Australia
Bendigo, 38th Battalion History Committee (printed by the Bendigo Advertiser Pty Ltd and the Cambridge Press),
1920. Octavo, [viii] (first leaf blank), 110 pages with the battalion colour patch printed on an early page plus a doubleportrait frontispiece and 18 numbered plates.
Two-colour pictorial wrappers a little unevenly sunned, with trifling signs of handling; essentially a fine copy of an
item rare in any condition. Dornbusch 312; Fielding and O’Neill, page 228; Trigellis-Smith 235. [$600-800]
214 39th Battalion. PATERSON, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas (editor)
The Thirty-Ninth. The History of the 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force
Melbourne, G.W. Green and Sons, 1934. Octavo, 371 pages with 8 illustrations (including a map) plus 28 plates and 11
folding maps with captioned paper guards.
Blind-ruled cloth slightly marked and a little mottled (confined mainly to the rear cover); an excellent copy.
Inscribed on the title page ‘To Mr. Fitchett. In appreciation of our happy association during the construction of the
trenches for the protection of the children of “Firbank” [Firbank Girls’ Grammar School, in suburban Brighton]. A.T.
Paterson, Lt. Colonel’ (sometime Commanding Officer of the battalion, ‘one of the youngest battalion commanders
in the AIF’ according to his biographical sketch on page 248). Dornbusch 334; Fielding and O’Neill, page 228 (giving
the author as P.V. Allen, credited in the editor’s foreword with laying much of the groundwork for the book); TrigellisSmith 236. [$600-800]
215 40th Battalion. GREEN, Frank Clifton
The Fortieth. A Record of the 40th Battalion, AIF
Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer, for the 40th Battalion Association, 1922. Octavo, viii, 248 pages plus a
frontispiece and 12 folding maps at the rear (numbered 1-10, 10a, and 11).
White-pictorial red cloth slightly bumped at the extremities, with the spine unevenly faded; acidic endpapers
discoloured; minimal foxing to the edges and first and last few leaves; light bumps to the corners of some leaves; an
excellent copy with the often-fugitive white ink on the front cover fully present and very bright indeed.
Mounted on the front pastedown is a letter typed on the 40th Battalion Association letterhead, signed by J.E.C. Lord as
patron of the Association (Lieutenant-Colonel John Ernest Cecil Lord was Commanding Officer of the 40th Battalion
for the entire war). Written in April 1937, it is a cover letter presenting this copy of the book to Brigadier General Sir
James Edmonds. ‘Brigadier General Sir James Edward Edmonds (1861-1956) ... has had the most profound impact
on the historiography and popular image of the First World War through his sometimes controversial work as the
Official Historian of British Military Operations’ (online promotional material for The Memoirs of Sir James Edmonds,
published in 2013). The later armorial-themed bookplate of Ernest J. Martin (RAF, Clifton College, RUSI ...) is on
the front flyleaf. The letter states that the author ‘for a time was adjutant’ of the battalion; the work contains a twopage foreword by Sir John Monash. Offered together with the book are two related pamphlets: Golden Jubilee of the
40th Battalion ... November ... 1966 (quarto, 16 pages); and 40th Battalion Golden Jubilee Song Book (quarto, 16 pages).
Dornbusch 314; Fielding and O’Neill, page 229; Trigellis-Smith 238. [$600-800]
216 41st Battalion. [MacGIBBON, Lieutenant Frederick William (editor)]
The Forty First. Compiled by Members of the Intelligence Staff
[No Place, No Publisher, 1919] (but possibly printed in France, In the Field). Quarto, 157 pages with a three-colour title
page and 6 full-page illustrations plus 5 full-page plates and a large double-page folding Honor Roll. All artwork is by
Thomas Cross, a member of the battalion; all printed pages have an attractive decorative blue border.
Flush-cut colour pictorial papered boards slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; rear cover a little foxed (or
similarly marked); trifling blemish to the surface of the front cover; front endpaper a little marked, with the inner
hinge lightly (and expertly) consolidated; minimal signs of handling; an excellent copy of a very rare item.
The preface is by ‘F.W.M. / St. Maxent, France / 30th December 1919’. This date is undoubtedly an error; it should
presumably be 1918. MacGibbon’s service record shows that he embarked for Australia on 28 August 1919, and as
early as September 1919 the booksellers Gordon and Gotch of Brisbane had written to the Defence Department about
the book, mentioning ‘a Lieut. F.W. McGibbon’ as the author. There is a letter to this effect in the National Archives
of Australia. Dornbusch 326; Trigellis-Smith 239 (both mistakenly spelling the editor’s name ‘McGibbon’); not in
Fielding and O’Neill. [$1500-2000]
217 43rd Battalion. COLLIVER, Captain Eustace James and Lieutenant Brian Harold RICHARDSON
The Forty-Third. The Story and Official History of the 43rd Battalion AIF
Adelaide, Rigby, 1920. Octavo, xiv, 248 pages with 5 comparative graphs and 17 maps plus 22 plates.
Green cloth (lettered in gilt) very lightly flecked; although the acidic paper is uniformly discoloured as ever, this is
a very fine copy of a notoriously poor production. We have seen many copies of this book over four decades, and
we have never seen a copy in anything like this condition before. Dornbusch 305; Fielding and O’Neill, page 229;
218 48th Battalion. DEVINE, William
The Story of a Battalion [the 48th Battalion AIF]
Melbourne, Melville and Mullen, 1919. Octavo, [xii], 180 pages plus 12 plates with captioned tissue-guards and 4 maps
(all by Daryl Lindsay, an official war artist).
Cloth slightly marked (on the rear cover) and lightly flecked; tiny inoffensive puncture to the spine; acidic tissueguards discoloured as ever; an excellent copy. The front flyleaf carries the contemporary ownership details of a
member of the battalion, 2392 Private Leland Keith Broadbent (The Willows, Cherry Gardens, SA).
William Devine, a Catholic priest, was attached to the battalion as chaplain; he was awarded the Military Cross and
the Croix de Guerre. Dornbusch 309; Fielding and O’Neill, page 230; Trigellis-Smith 246. [$300-400]
219 53rd Battalion. KENNEDY, John Joseph
The Whale Oil Guards
Dublin, James Duffy, 1919. Octavo, 144 (last blank), 16 (publisher’s catalogue, dated February 1919) pages.
Gilt-decorated quarter contrasting cloth (green and black, the battalion’s colours) a little mottled (as ever), flecked
and marked; endpapers offset; a very crisp copy.
The history of the 53rd Battalion AIF, by its (Roman Catholic) chaplain, Father John Joseph Kennedy DSO CF.
220 56th Battalion. WILLIAMS, Harold Roy
Comrades of the Great Adventure
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1935. Octavo, viii (last blank), 307, [1] (colophon) pages.
Cloth; scattered foxing (heavier on the edges and near the covers); an excellent copy with the rare dustwrapper a little
chipped, torn and lacking the bottom portion of the front flap. With the bookplate of Geoffrey Farmer, librarian, book
collector, bibliographer, and editor of A Letter to Norah on the Death of an Anzac at Lone Pine (1993).
The author’s personal narrative of life with the 56th Battalion AIF, an ‘admirable pendant to The Gallant Company.
Here, training and fighting take second place. Instead, one gets sketches of the author’s pals and acquaintances’
(dustwrapper blurb). Dornbusch 285; Fielding and O’Neill, page 258. [$260-400]
221 56th Battalion. WILLIAMS, Harold Roy
The Gallant Company. An Australian Soldier’s Story of 1915-1918
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, December 1933 (second edition)/ October 1933. Octavo, x (last blank), 276, [2] (blank),
27 (publisher’s catalogue) pages.
Pictorial cloth a little marked, and lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; endpaper offset, with a trifling
surface blemish to the rear one; leading edge a little marked; a very good copy.
A history of the 56th Battalion. With the ownership signature on the front pastedown of W.C. Garrard, Barmera
(1857 Sergeant William Cedphus Garrard, 9th Light Horse Regiment). Dornbusch 258; Fielding and O’Neill, page 258;
Light Horse Units
222 3rd Light Horse Brigade. KENT HUGHES, Major Wilfrid Selwyn
Modern Crusaders. An Account of the Campaign in Sinai and Palestine up to the Capture of Jerusalem. [With
the Light Horse through Sinai and Palestine (cover title)]
Melbourne, Melville & Mullen, [1919]. Octavo, [vi] (last blank), 170 pages plus 22 pages of plates and a small folding
map.
Decorated cloth very lightly marked; essentially a fine copy. Dornbusch 396; not in Fielding and O’Neill; TrigellisSmith 268 (‘Although not a true unit history ... effectively, an account of the activities of 3rd Light Horse Brigade in
Sinai and Palestine’). [$200-300]
223 3rd Light Horse Brigade. WILSON, Brigadier-General Lachlan Chisholm
Narrative ... of Operations of Third Light Horse Brigade, AIF, from 27th October 1917 to 4th March 1919
Cairo, Printed by the Oriental Advertising Company, 1919. Large octavo, 64 pages.
Original red wrappers a little chipped, with the front bottom corner restored; bottom marginal corner of the first ten
leaves creased, with short tears expertly sealed, and trifling loss to the first one; minor signs of use and age, including
a very short tear with associated creasing to the bottom margin of the last half of the book; notwithstanding, this is a
very presentable copy now preserved in a custom-made clamshell box.
To call this Cairo printing a fabulous rarity would be an understatement ... The author, Brigadier-General Wilson
DSO, was Commanding Officer of the 5th Light Horse Regiment when he was given command of the 3rd Light Horse
Brigade on 27 October 1917, the date his narrative begins. The events described therein include the fall of Gaza,
Beersheba, the raids on Amman and Es Salt, the German-Turkish attack of July 1918, and their attacks along the
Mediterranean coast until the Turkish surrender in October. Dornbusch 405; Fielding and O’Neill, page 231; TrigellisSmith 269. [$2500-3000]
224 5th Light Horse Regiment. WILSON, Brigadier-General Lachlan Chisholm and Captain Henry
WETHERELL
History of the Fifth Light Horse Regiment (Australian Imperial Force) from 1914 to October, 1917, by BrigadierGeneral L.C. Wilson ... (Formerly Commanding Officer of the Regiment) and from October, 1917, to June, 1919,
by Captain H. Wetherell (an Officer of the Regiment)
Sydney, Motor Press of Australia Limited, 1926. Octavo, 232 pages with a facsimile letter plus 3 plates (portraits of the
Commanding Officers) and 7 folding maps (on 4 leaves mounted at the rear).
Quarter blue cloth and brown pictorial papered boards slightly bumped and rubbed at the extremities, and lightly
sunned on the spine; endpapers offset, with a tiny chip from the bottom edge of the rear flyleaf; folding maps neatly
rehinged onto the rear endpaper, with minimal restoration to the bottom blank margin of the last one; edges lightly
foxed; an excellent copy of a very rare item, with most impressive provenance.
The front pastedown is inscribed to ‘A.W. Hyman. With kindest remembrances from Donald Cameron. 14th May /31’.
Loosely inserted are two contemporary typed letters signed by Cameron, on House of Representatives letterhead;
they provide details about the book and the recipient. Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Charles Cameron (CMG, DSO,
Order of the Nile 3rd Class, three times Mentioned in Despatches) succeeded Brigadier-General Wilson as CO of the
regiment on 27 October 1917, when the latter was given command of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade. The recipient was
Colonel Arthur Wellesley Hyman DSO; as a member of the 7th Light Horse, he took part in the landing at Gallipoli
(and he has made a few pencilled emphases and an initialled comment in the relevant chapter of this book). Both
Cameron and Hyman were diligent workers for ex-servicemen. The short introduction to the book by Wilson notes
that ‘This publication has been printed at the expense of and is presented to the members of the Fifth Regiment’ by
Cameron (who puts it another way in one of his letters to Hyman: ‘These copies are not for sale as in a moment of
generosity and affluence, I decided to cover the cost of same for ex-members of the Regiment or their dependents’).
For good measure, a slightly later inscription on the pastedown records that Hyman loaned the book to a British
fellow-soldier. The name ‘M. Vernon’ is also written in pencil on the front flyleaf; we can find no military connection.
225 6th Light Horse Regiment. BERRIE, Lieutenant George Lachlan
Under Furred Hats. (6th A.L.H. Regt.)
Sydney, W.C. Penfold and Co., 1919. Octavo, 180 pages with a frontispiece portrait plus 47 plates (including 3 folding
panoramas); the last leaf of text doubles as the rear flyleaf.
Pictorial dark khaki cloth (with the regimental colour patch printed on the front cover) a little bumped at the
extremities; front endpaper offset; an excellent copy. Dornbusch 379; Fielding and O’Neill, page 232; Trigellis-Smith
277. [$300-400]
226 6th Light Horse Regiment. BERRIE, Lieutenant George Lachlan
Under Furred Hats. (6th A.L.H. Regt.)
Sydney, W.C. Penfold and Co., 1919. Octavo, 180 pages with a frontispiece portrait plus 47 plates (including 3 folding
panoramas); the last leaf of text doubles as the rear flyleaf.
Pictorial light khaki cloth (with the regimental colour patch printed on the front cover) lightly sunned on the spine
and a little marked, with minor wear to the head and foot of the spine; front flyleaf offset; edges a little foxed; overall,
an excellent copy. Inscribed on the flyleaf ‘Wishing Yvonette Leverrier “all of the best”. George Berrie. June 5th 1935’
(to the sister of the well-known Sydney barrister, Francis Hewitt Leverrier, 1863-1940). The later name-stamp of a
Leverrier family member appears on both pastedowns (that on the front one is offset a little onto the inscription),
and below Berrie’s inscription is a later gift inscription in another hand. The author, who embarked with the 2nd
Reinforcements, 6th Light Horse Regiment, in August 1915, rose through the ranks. Dornbusch 379; Fielding and
O’Neill, page 232; Trigellis-Smith 277.
[$500-600]
227 7th Light Horse Regiment. RICHARDSON, Lieutenant-Colonel John Dalyell
The History of the 7th Light Horse Regiment AIF. [The 7th Light Horse Regiment, 1914-1919 (cover title)]
Sydney, ‘Printed and Published by Eric N. Birks, late O.C. No. 1 Sect. 5th A.M.G. Coy, Proprietor, Radcliffe Press’,
[1923]. Quarto, [x], 122 pages plus 35 plates and 3 maps (1 double-page).
Quarter cloth and papered boards (with the regimental colours printed on the front cover); light wear to the
extremities; ‘Red Cross Hospital Library Services’ ink-stamp faintly visible on the front and rear covers; endpapers
offset, with the Red Cross stamp twice on the front flyleaf; notwithstanding, a very attractive copy, now preserved in
a custom-made clamshell box.
‘Subscription Edition limited to 300 copies of which this is No. 225’ is printed on the half-title; needless to say, this
is a fiendishly rare regimental history. The author was the last wartime Commanding Officer of the regiment; he
was awarded the DSO at Gaza in late 1917. His preface is dated 1 November 1923, which puts a lower limit on the
publication date. The introduction is by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel. Dornbusch 400; Fielding and O’Neill,
228 9th Light Horse Regiment. DARLEY, Major Thomas Henry
With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War
Adelaide, Hassell Press, 1924. Octavo, viii, 206 pages plus 28 plates.
Cloth lightly marked on the rear cover; minimal foxing to the edges and a few bottom margins; an excellent copy
without the fading to the spine so often seen with the purple cloth on this book.
Loosely inserted are six photographs and some related notes. Four of the photographs are high-quality reproductions
of wartime originals, including one of members (all identified) of ‘A’ Squadron of the Regiment who survived Gallipoli.
The other two are modern colour photographs of headstones relating to the one-time Commanding Officer of the
Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Carew Reynell (who was killed at Hill 60 and buried there) and his family. Carew
Reynell (1883-1915) was the great-uncle of Patrick Walters. Dornbusch 384; Fielding and O’Neill, page 233; TrigellisSmith 279. [$500-700]
229 10th Light Horse Regiment. OLDEN, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Charles Niquet
Westralian Cavalry in the War. The Story of the Tenth Light Horse Regiment, AIF, in the Great War, 1914-1918
Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, [1921]. Octavo, 343, [1] (colophon) pages plus 3 maps (2 folding), 86 plates, and 7
folding maps in a rear endpocket.
Cloth lightly marked and flecked, slightly rubbed at the extremities, with minimal light wear to the head of the spine;
endpapers offset (the rear one more heavily so, with minor insect damage to the pastedown); trifling superficial
blemishes to the edges; overall an excellent copy with the very rare (and expertly conserved) pictorial dustwrapper,
now housed in a custom-made clamshell box.
The two-page foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel describes the author thus: ‘Lieut.-Colonel Olden
is well qualified to undertake the work, as, joining the Regiment on its inception, he served with it throughout the
War, and, though twice wounded, was never long away from duty. He temporarily commanded it during the absence
(wounded) of Colonel Todd on more than one occasion (notably during the 2nd Battle of Gaza), and finally succeeded
to the command after the death of Colonel Todd’. He was awarded the DSO. Dornbusch 399; Fielding and O’Neill,
230 11th Light Horse Regiment. HAMMOND, Ernest Waldemar
History of the 11th Light Horse Regiment, Fourth Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces, War 19141919
Brisbane, William Brooks and Co., 1942. Octavo, [xvi], 186 pages with an illustration and 4 maps plus 67 pages of
plates (containing 108 plates in all); the regimental colour patch is printed in three colours on the title page.
Cloth lightly marked, slightly bumped at the corners, and lightly sunned on the spine; occasional light foxing; small
glue stains and trifling remnants of the original tipped-in plain opaque paper dustwrapper on the leading margins
of the pastedowns; an excellent copy. The author was Signal Sergeant of the Regiment. Dornbusch 393; Fielding and
O’Neill, page 233; Trigellis-Smith 282. [$600-800]
Other Units
231 3rd Infantry Division. CUTTRISS, George Percival
‘Over the Top’ with the Third Australian Division
London, Charles H. Kelly, [1918]. Octavo, 140 pages with 12 illustrations plus 6 plates (all by Neil McBeath) and 2
portraits (Major-General Sir John Monash and the author).
Pictorial cloth slightly rubbed and bumped; flyleaves tanned; edges and first and last few leaves a little foxed; an
excellent copy. With a five-page introduction by Major-General Sir John Monash. Dornbusch 263; Fielding and
O’Neill, page 224; Trigellis-Smith 185 (‘not a unit history ... rather, a small collection of articles, reminiscences, poems
etc’). [$100-150]
232 5th Infantry Division. ELLIS, Captain Alexander Donaldson
The Story of the Fifth Australian Division. Being an Authoritative Account of the Division’s Doings in Egypt,
France and Belgium
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1920]. Large octavo, xx, 468 pages with 20 maps and diagrams plus 3 folding
maps and 16 plates (including 2 tipped-in colour plates).
Gilt-decorated cloth; endpapers lightly offset; an exceptional copy with the lightly chipped and sunned dustwrapper.
A remarkable copy, with impressive provenance; it comes from the collection of Dr Arthur Ross Clayton, with his
contemporary ownership signature (Moonta, 11 March 1920). Offered with the book are two portraits of Clayton:
one is a fine 1917 photograph by W.G. Parker, Russell Square, London (270 × 210 mm, in the original printed card
portfolio); the other is a 1917 caricature, in pencil, by A.L Gibson (‘Major Clayton lectures on bridge’).
Arthur Ross Clayton (1876-1963), medical practitioner, was commissioned in the Australian Army Medical Corps
in 1912, and ‘before the outbreak of World War I was regimental medical officer to the 24th Light Horse. On 10
September 1915 Clayton joined the Australian Imperial Force as a captain, and on reaching Egypt served at the 1st
Australian General Hospital and the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Heliopolis. He was transferred to the 7th and
6th Field Ambulances in March 1916 and then to the newly formed 12th Field Ambulance which reached France in
June; from August his unit was based at Bécourt on the Somme, dealing with casualties from the battles of Pozières
and Mouquet Farm. Clayton was promoted to major in November and transferred to the 8th Field Ambulance as
second-in-command. He was placed in charge of the 5th Divisional Rest Station at Vignacourt and, early in 1917, of
the 1st Anzac Corps Rest Station at Bellevue Farm during operations at Bapaume. During the battles of Bullecourt he
served at the 5th Division’s main dressing stations and from October to December was acting commander of his unit.
Early in 1918 the 8th Field Ambulance remained with the 5th Division on the Somme. Clayton resumed temporary
command in February and, except for a period in April-May, retained command until the Armistice. He was slightly
wounded in action in April and was mentioned in dispatches and made temporary lieutenant-colonel in May; in June
he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. After the A.I.F.’s final Hindenburg Line operations he was posted
to 5th Division hospitals in northern France and Belgium; he was confirmed as lieutenant-colonel in November and
from April 1919 was commanding officer of the A.I.F.’s remaining divisional field ambulances in Belgium. Clayton
returned to Australia in August 1919 and was discharged in December. He was made a lieutenant-colonel in the
Australian Military Forces in 1920 and was area medical officer at Moonta and Kadina before being placed on the
unattached list in 1922. After demobilization he had resumed medical practice at Moonta’ (Australian Dictionary of
Biography). Dornbusch 311; Fielding and O’Neill, page 225; Trigellis-Smith 188. [$1200-1600]
233 6th Machine Gun Company. CARNE, Lieutenant William Albert
In Good Company. An Account of the 6th Machine Gun Company AIF in Search of Peace, 1915-19
Melbourne, 6th Machine Gun Company (AIF) Association (incorporating the 2nd Machine Gun Battalion), 1937.
Octavo, 434 pages with 10 maps, a diagram, an illustration of the ‘Vickers Machine Gun’, and a leaf of colour
illustrations of insignias of the company, plus 14 pages of plates and a folding colour map.
Cloth mottled, lightly corrugated on the spine, and cracking a little in the gutters of the outer hinges; rear flyleaf offset;
leading edge slightly marked; overall a very good copy (internally excellent). With a four-page foreword by MajorGeneral Sir John Gellibrand. Dornbusch 302; Fielding and O’Neill, page 230; Trigellis-Smith 291. [$500-600]
234 7th Company Field Engineers. CHATTO, Ronald Henry Stewart
The Seventh Company (Field Engineers) AIF, 1915-1918
Kogarah, The Author ‘for the 7th Field Company Comrades’ Association, and printed by Smith’s Newspapers Ltd....
Sydney’, 1936. Octavo, 214, [2] (blank, colophon) pages with about 70 line illustrations plus 19 pages of plates and a
map.
Gilt-decorated full morocco, all edges speckled; minor cracks and trifling surface loss to the spine; occasional foxing;
a very good copy.
An extraordinary association copy, in what would appear to be a one-off deluxe binding. The initial binder’s blank is
inscribed ‘To the youngest sapper I knew, the one I loved and admired most, and who looked after me when I was
almost beyond human aid, 18 years ago tonight. From L.W. Gill. 21/5/36’. The event in question, which occurred near
Mericourt on 21 May 1918, is described in detail on page 141; it is worth quoting in full.
Good progress was made with the Support Line, but, on the first night, the 21st, a shell burst close to the sappers
of No. 2 Section. When the sappers could see the results, it was found that Lieut. Gill was severely wounded, and
Sapper W. Owen, although not wounded, was badly shaken, also having the equipment he was wearing practically
cut to pieces by the flying shell fragments. It was remarkable that he escaped injury. Sgt. Raeside, with sappers of the
party, immediately went to Lieut. Gill’s assistance, and turning to a sapper accompanying him, said, “Poor Gill; he’s
gone!”. Lieut. Gill appeared to be dead, and had a large piece of H.E. [High Explosive] protruding from a wound in
his head. Raeside and the sapper went off to get a stretcher, but, on return, found that the officer had been taken in,
and were glad to hear that he still lived.
Lancelot Waring Gill (1887-1969) was a son of Harry Pelling Gill (1855-1916), Australian art curator, teacher and
painter. 8597 Private W. Owen had just turn sixteen when he enlisted in December 1915; he finished his military
service as a lieutenant in the AFC. Sir William Francis Langer Owen (1899-1972) went on to become a High Court
judge (see the Australian Dictionary of Biography). Loosely inserted in the book is an original vintage gelatin silver
portrait photograph (postcard-format, with the stamped credit of Leon Caron, Amiens) of an Australian soldier,
almost certainly young Will Owen. Dornbusch 304; Fielding and O’Neill, page 224; Trigellis-Smith 295. [$1500-2000]
235 7th Field Artillery Brigade. BRIDGER, Thomas Dudley (editor)
With the 27th Battery in France
[London, St Clements Press, 1919]. Octavo, 168 pages plus a two-colour pictorial title page (by Cyril Christian Ruwald,
a member of the 27th) and 8 plates.
Cloth a little rubbed, marked and slightly bubbled in places; printed title-label on the front cover slightly rubbed;
flyleaves offset; edges slightly foxed; an excellent copy. The early ownership signature of C.L. (or perhaps Cpl?) Wheeler
is written in pencil on the half-title. ‘The publication of this volume, which endeavours to present an unofficial history
of the 27th 18-pdr. Battery of the 7th Field Artillery Brigade, 3rd Australian Division, in France during 1917 and 1918,
is due to the private enterprise of a committee of about twenty members of this battery’ (foreword). Dornbusch 301;
Trigellis-Smith 311 (both stating St Clements Press); not in Fielding and O’Neill. [$400-600]
236 7th Field Artillery Brigade. ROHU, Bombardier Sil and Gunner Eric HARDING (editors)
The 7th Field Artillery Brigade Yandoo. Containing Publications of the Organ of the 7th Field Artillery Brigade,
Australian Imperial Forces, whilst on board the SS Argyllshire, with 9th Field Artillery Brigade and the 9th
Field Ambulance, en route from Australia to England. By the Yandoo Management, Bombardier Rohu ... and
Gunner Harding ... Volume I. August 1916. [Together with] The 7th Field Artillery Brigade Yandoo.... whilst in
Camp at Various Artillery Training Centres in the South of England, principally at Larkhill, Salisbury Plain....
Volume II. December 1916. [Together with] The 7th Field Artillery Brigade Yandoo.... whilst on Active Service
in France, and the Return Journey to Australia, Brigade Roll of Honor, Battery Casualty Lists, Nominal Roll,
Brigade History, Maps, Xmas Cards, Novelty Programme, Menu Cards, etc. By the Yandoo Management,
Bombardiers S.E. Rohu and E. Harding, Gunners B.C. Duckworth (26th Battery) and S.W. Hodge (HQ).
Volume III. September 1919
London, Wilson and Co. [Printers, for the Brigade] (Volumes 1 and 2), 1916 and December 1916, and [Sydney,
Government Printer, 1920] (the Preface is dated 1 February 1920). Large octavo, three volumes, 36, 52, and 200 pages,
each volume with numerous illustrations, plus (in the first two volumes) text on the inside rear cover, and (in the third
volume) 3 folding colour maps and a large folding colour plate.
Overlapping gilt-pictorial wrappers (respectively maroon, dark green and slate-grey, with the first two volumes twocolour cord-bound); edges of the wrappers chipped and a little creased, with those on the first one a little marked, and
the rear wrapper of the third one creased; the second volume has a shallow light tidemark to the blank margins of the
bottom corner throughout, with a few trifling surface adhesion blemishes; minor signs of use and age; a very good set,
now housed in a custom-made clamshell box.
The first volume has the original recipient’s address label mounted inside the rear cover (‘Miss Booth, MLC Ass Coy Ld,
Sydney’). The second volume has an extraordinary message, presumably to Miss Booth, written across the title page.
It reads in full: ‘Dear Ethel, Please do not blame me too much for not writing, [it sure] has been a funny experience
and some day if I am spared I may be able to tell you all about it. All I know is I have been D----- busy ever since I
reached England. [Signed with a short but indecipherable name starting with D.] Ta Ta. We sail tomorrow. 29.12.16’.
The cover subtitles are Troopship Issue (Volume I), Camp Life in England (Volume II), and Active Service Issue (Volume
III). These three volumes reproduce the brigade’s typescript journals with important additional material, especially
photographic illustrations not included in the original typescripts. The first volume is a photolithographic reprint of
the four typescript journals published at sea in June and July 1916 while en route to England on SS Argyllshire with the
9th Field Artillery Brigade and 9th Field Ambulance. The second and third volumes similarly reproduce the brigade’s
original journals (the final one with additional material as noted above, as well as more than 50 illustrations from
personal snapshots of the brigade’s operations on the Western Front). Dornbusch 291; not in Fielding and O’Neill;
Trigellis-Smith 307-309. [$500-600]
237 BURKE, Keast (editor)
With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia. The Story of Anzacs in Asia
Sydney, printed by Arthur McQuitty and Co. [for the ANZ Wireless Signal Squadron History Committee], 1927.
Quarto, viii, 200 pages with maps and numerous vignette illustrations (including 68 pages containing hundreds
of half-tone illustrations from photographs) plus endpaper maps. The six artists responsible for the drawings are
identified in the preface.
Quarter cloth and papered boards with a large colour-pictorial title-label on the front cover and small paper title-label
on the spine; top corners very lightly bumped; essentially a very fine copy of a handsome production, now housed in
a custom-made clamshell box.
The ‘histories of the 1st Australian Pack Wireless Signal Troop, the NZ Wireless Signal Troop, the 1st Australian
and New Zealand Wireless Signal Squadron, the 1st Cavalry Divisional Signal Squadron, the Light Motor Wireless
Sections, the Australians of “Dunsterforce” (Persia and Russia), the Australian Nurses in India and the Australian
Representative at Bombay. There is also included a nominal roll of all Australians who served in the Middle East’. The
Braga copy contained a typed note (dated 1992), which stated that the book, ‘written by my maternal grandfather ...
was limited in print run to a sufficient quantity to supply a copy each to those servicemen mentioned within’. This
would help explain its genuine rarity. The outstanding quality of this particular copy has a very simple explanation: it
comes from the personal library of the editor. Eric Keast Burke (1896-1974), photographer and journalist, enlisted in
the Australian Imperial Force in February 1917. ‘Embarking for the Middle East in December, he served as a sapper
with the Anzac Wireless Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. The unit operated at Baghdad, and in the
field in Persia and on the Kurdistan frontier until November 1919’ (Australian Dictionary of Biography). He was a
pioneering photo-historian, and the inclusion of hundreds of photographic illustrations in the book is testament to
his insight. Dornbusch 368; Dornbusch NZ 208; Fielding and O’Neill, page 235; Trigellis-Smith 304. [$1500-2000]
238 Fourth Division Army Medical Corps
With the Diggers, 1914-1918 [cover title]
[Melbourne, Fourth Division AMC Association, 1933]. Quarto, [200] pages (erratically numbered to 174) of processed
(stencilled) typescript with numerous line illustrations throughout.
Quarter cloth and papered boards with a large colour plate by Leyshon White (of a Digger sniffing a flower) mounted
on the front cover; covers a little rubbed and lightly worn at the extremities; 4th Division AMC Association rubberstamp on the endpapers and a few pages (and a later label on the pastedown certifying its release); scattered foxing; a
few minor pencil annotations to the section on Digger Songs; overall an excellent copy.
The Fourth Division Army Medical Corps comprised the 4th, 12th, and 13th Field Ambulances; this compilation is
not just a record of fallen comrades, but ‘a remarkably rich work, not just an anthology of digger verse, song, and
illustration but an extensive record of Australian war service, including the Anglo-Boer War. In addition to the
requisite chronology of the Great War, the volume includes laboriously compiled records of the entire AIF giving
every unit in all divisions, the principal engagements, casualties, etc.; a detailed record of the Nursing Service; a
detailed record of the Australian Navy and the RANB in the war; details of warship and mercantile marine losses;
number and name of every transport requisitioned by the Australian Navy with complements of officers and men
(and horses); honour rolls of the 4th, 12th, and 13th Field Ambulances; etc. The Boer War section includes details of
enlistments, principal actions, casualties, as well as South African War songs and verses (and printings of these are
especially elusive). The illustrations are by, among others, Hal Gye, Cecil Hartt, and Leyshon White’ (quoting Trove,
quoting an unidentified ‘Bookseller’s description’). Dornbusch 241; not in Fielding and O’Neill; Trigellis-Smith 330. [$300-400]
New Zealand Unit Histories
239 BURTON, Second-Lieutenant Ormond Edward
The Auckland Regiment. Being an Account of the Doings on Active Service of the First, Second and Third
Battalions of the Auckland Regiment
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1922. Octavo, [xvi], 323, [2] (blank, full-page Rauschenbusch quotation) pages plus
12 portraits and 14 folding maps.
Cloth; endpapers offset; occasional light foxing; tiny chip to the leading margin of the frontispiece, with trifling
associated bruising to the next three leaves; an excellent copy (with the ownership stamp of T.C.V. Lloydd [sic] on the
front flyleaf).
The author, Ormond Edward Burton (1893-1974), a member of the regiment, was awarded the Military Medal and the
Medaille d’Honneur. The book ‘was based on extensive interviews with soldiers ... and praised for its stark realism
and eulogies of the self-sacrifice of the common soldier.... Horrified and disillusioned with the terms of the Treaty of
Versailles, he became a resolute convert to Christian pacifism’ and a Methodist clergyman, and spent several years in
prison for his views (Te Ara—The Encyclopedia of New Zealand). Dornbusch NZ 192. [$200-250]
240 BYRNE, Lieutenant Arthur Emmett
Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF, in the Great War, 1914-1918
Dunedin, printed by J. Wilkie and Co., [1921]. Octavo, [xvi] (last blank), 407 pages plus a colour frontispiece, 42 pages
of plates and 11 folding maps.
Cloth a little marked and bumped at the extremities; occasional light foxing; minor conservation to one map; minimal
signs of use; a very good copy. The author, a member of the regiment, was awarded the MC. Dornbusch NZ 193. [$200-300]
241 COWAN, James
The Maoris in the Great War. A History of the New Zealand Native Contingent and Pioneer Battalion.
Gallipoli, 1915. France and Flanders, 1916-1918
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs for the Maori Regimental Committee, 1926. Octavo, xii, 184 pages plus 36 pages
of plates, 2 plans, and 9 maps (7 folding, 3 in colour, including the impressive large folding colour ‘Anzac Trench
Diagram’ tipped in on the rear pastedown).
Cloth; edges and endpapers a little foxed; essentially a fine copy with the dustwrapper (with expert conservation to
the spine, and some crumpled lightly tape-stained long tears to the rear panel now stabilised). This original edition is
rare, especially in such appealing condition. Dornbusch NZ 195. [$600-800]
NEW ZEALAND UNIT HISTORIES
242 CUNNINGHAM, Sir William Henry, Charles Archibald Lawrance TREADWELL and J.S. HANNA
The Wellington Regiment NZEF, 1914-1919
Wellington, Ferguson and Osborn, 1928. Octavo, [ii] (half title, verso blank), xii, 400 pages plus 34 pages of plates (a
total of 39 illustrations from photographs), 2 large folding maps and a large folding graph.
Gilt-decorated cloth lightly flecked and marked; spine a little sunned; an excellent copy. Signed ‘G.H. Verity’ on the
pastedown (7/1299 Lance Corporal George Hamilton Verity, 6th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles).
The Wellington Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone, landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April
1915. It played a pivotal role when it seized Chunuk Bair on 8 August, one of the few successes of the August offensive.
When the Wellingtons were relieved by other New Zealand units, only some 70 of the battalion’s 760 men remained.
Malone himself, ‘one of New Zealand’s outstanding soldiers of the Gallipoli campaign’, was killed by friendly fire;
his body remained on Chunuk Bair, one of 310 Wellington soldiers there with no known graves (Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography). Dornbusch NZ 196. [$800-1000]
243 MOORE, Arthur Briscoe
The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine. The Story of New Zealand’s Crusaders
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, [1920]. Small octavo, 175, [1] (publisher’s advertisement) pages plus 31 plates and
3 folding maps.
Flush-cut plain card covers with attached overlapping printed stiffened wrappers with an illustration (by F.R.
Alexander) mounted on the front panel; minimal foxing; essentially a fine copy. The author had served as a lieutenant
in the Auckland Mounted Rifles. Dornbusch NZ 212. [$300-400]
244 NEILL, James Campbell (editor)
The New Zealand Tunnelling Company, 1915-1919
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1922. Small octavo, [ii], iv, 160 (last colophon) pages with 12 line illustrations and
30 illustrations from photographs plus 4 folding maps.
Cloth lightly bumped on one corner; endpapers and maps very lightly foxed; essentially a fine copy of a rare item. The
author was an original member of the company. Dornbusch NZ 200. [$500-600]
245 NICOL, Sergeant Charles Gordon
The Story of Two Campaigns. Official War History of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, 1914-1919
Auckland, Printed by Wilson and Horton, 1921. Octavo, [viii] (last page blank), 266, [1] (colophon) pages plus a
tipped-in leaf (printed in red and black) bearing the ‘AMR Squadron Badges and Regimental Colours’, 64 pages of
plates, 2 sketch maps (on a single folding sheet) and 3 folding maps.
Pebble-grained red cloth with a line illustration on the rear cover; covers slightly bumped and rubbed at the
extremities; spine unevenly sunned; endpapers offset; edges foxed, with occasional light scattered foxing elsewhere;
overall an excellent copy. Dornbusch NZ 213. [$300-400]
246 Official History of New Zealand’s Effort in the Great War. [Volume 1]. WAITE, Major Fred: The New
Zealanders at Gallipoli. [Volume 2]. STEWART, Colonel Hugh: The New Zealand Division, 1916-1919. A
Popular History based on Official Records. [Volume 3]. POWLES, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Guy: The
New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine. [Volume 4]. DREW, Lieutenant Henry Thomas Bertie (editor): The
War Effort of New Zealand. A Popular History of (a) Minor Campaigns in which New Zealanders took part;
(b) Services not fully dealt with in the Campaign Volumes; (c) The Work at the Bases
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, for the New Zealand Government, respectively 1919, 1921, 1922 and 1923 (all first
editions). Octavo, four volumes, decorated cloth; all volumes complete as issued.
Volume 1: cloth a little flecked; occasional foxing; an excellent copy. Volume 2: edges foxed; leading margin of one
folding map a little tender and discoloured; contemporary ownership signature of Ivan T.R. McDonald; an excellent
copy. Volume 3: clean cut to the top margin of 20 leaves at the rear of the book, extending into the text in four
instances (probably a production fault); trifling signs of use; a very good copy. Volume 4: covers a little bumped; an
excellent copy. Dornbusch NZ 206, 202, 215 and 174. [4 items]. [$200-250]
247 POWLES, Colonel Charles Guy (editor)
The History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, 1914-1919, by Officers of the Regiment. Edited by Colonel C.G.
Powles ...
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1928. Octavo, viii, 267 pages with 2 maps and numerous illustrations (after
photographs) plus 5 folding colour maps in the text (3 of them the same map of the Eastern Mediterranean coast,
overprinted in red and green showing troop positions around Beersheba at different stages of the campaign); a plate
is tipped in on the inner margin of page 175 (‘10th Squadron Main Body Just Prior To The Armistice’), a small errata
slip is tipped in on page vii, a large folding colour map (‘Anzac Trench Diagram’) is tipped in on the front pastedown,
and a large folding colour map of Sinai and Palestine is tipped in on the rear pastedown.
Decorated cloth slightly bumped at the corners, and lightly sunned on the spine; essentially a fine copy. The Canterbury
Mounted Rifles Regiment fought at Gallipoli, and in Sinai and Palestine. Dornbusch NZ 214. [$300-400]
248 ROBERTSON, John
With the Cameliers in Palestine.... With Introductions by General Sir Harry Chauvel ... and Colonel the Hon.
Sir James Allen ...
Dunedin, Reed, 1938. Octavo, 244 pages with 4 maps plus 30 pages of plates.
Cloth slightly bumped at the top corners; an excellent copy. General Sir Harry Chauvel’s introduction commences
with ‘Major Robertson is doing a great service to his old comrades in publishing this History of the New Zealand
Companies of the Camel Corps’. He was a member of the 4th Battalion of the Imperial Camel Brigade. Dornbusch
NZ 216; A.G. Bagnall, New Zealand National Bibliography to the Year 1960, R810 (noting an edition of 1000 copies). [$150-200]
249 WILKIE, Major Alexander Herbert
Official War History of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, 1914-1919
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1924. Octavo, [xvi] (last blank), 260 pages with 3 maps plus 36 pages of plates, an
unlisted colour plate depicting the regimental badges and hat-band, 18 folding colour maps, and a large folding map
of Palestine tipped in on the rear pastedown.
Light brown cloth a little flecked, with minor loss of cloth (insect damage) to the leading edge of both boards (confined
mainly to the turned-in portion of the cloth); a few small stains to the edges (in two places, these have bled a little into
the leading margins of some leaves); short tears to one leaf and the large map expertly sealed; minor signs of handling,
particularly to a few maps; overall a very good copy. The name-stamp of David A. Corbett is on both flyleaves.
Dornbusch NZ 217. [$300-400]
Illustration from Lot 106
References
DORNBUSCH, Charles Emil: The New Zealand Army. A Bibliography (1961)
DORNBUSCH, Charles Emil: Australian Military Bibliography (1963)
FIELDING, Jean and Robert O’NEILL: A Select Bibliography of Australian Military History, 1891-1939 (1978)
TRIGELLIS-SMITH, Syd, Sergio ZAMPATTI and Max PARSONS: Shaping History. A Bibliography of Australian Army
Unit Histories (1996)
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