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"Eggs-a-Cook!" The Story of the Forty-Fourth: War as the Digger Fought It
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Eggs-a-Cook! relates the experience of the 44th Battalion in France during 1916-1918. Raised at Claremont, Western Australia in February 1916, Longmore details their experiences in the Armentieres sector, 'Plugstreet,' Messines, Broodseinde Ridge, Paschendale, Corbie, Hamel, Bray, and the Somme ...
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A Most Unusual Regiment: A History of Melbourne University Regiment
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Melbourne University Regiment approaches the centenary of its foundation as part of an Army changed beyond recognition in the past hundred years. This is a definitive history of this Regiment ...
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A Short History of 9 Field Company R.A.E. [A.I.F.] 1939-1945
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Our Price: AU$50.00
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During the Pacific War, this Australian Army unit was one of eight engineer and one Australian infantry companies, that was subjected to the extremes of climatic and geographic conditions in New Guinea. The project was to build the 'Bulldog-Wau Road' from the south coast ...
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A Thousand Men at War: A History of the 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF
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The 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion had an outstanding record during the course of the Second World War, both in the Middle East during 1941 and then the South-West Pacific from 1942 until 1945. First published in 1959, this book tells of the sacrifices of these men ...
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All the King's Enemies: A History of the 2/5th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945
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Our Price: AU$60.00
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Raised in Melbourne in October 1939, the 2/5th sailed for the Middle East in April 1940 and took part in Australia's first battle at Bardia in 1941. This is the history of a fine battalion and the men who served in it when the country and free world was in need ...
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As Rough as Bags: The History of the 6th Battalion, 1st AIF, 1914-1919
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The history of the 6th Battalion is vividly described as supplements by the extensive use of diaries, letters, interviews with veterans, and photographs, many of which have never been published before. The inclusion of many appendices makes this history a notable addition to Australian military literature ...
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Battle Scarred: The 47th Battalion in the First World War
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‘The dead and wounded of the 47th lay everywhere underfoot’ ... With these words Charles Bean, Australia’s Official War Historian, described the battlefield of Dernancourt on the morning of the 5th of April, 1918, The 47th Battalion fought in some of the First World War’s bloodiest battles.
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Beersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War
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In October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade took part in the 'last great cavalry charge'. Waving bayonets overhead, they charged across six kilometers of open ground, cheating bombs and shells before capturing the Turkish trenches. But there is also a very dark episode ...
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Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-18
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The tunnellers' war still remains one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of the Great War. In Ypres, the secret struggle beneath no man's land became one of engineering and science ...
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Beyond Adversity: 'U' Company, 15th Battalion 1941-1942
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In Nov 1941, about 100 university students began their short-term compulsory military training with the 15th Infantry Battalion. Most were aged 19-22, had daytime jobs and were students from the arts, commerce and law faculties. Their military training was due to end in Feb 1942, but by April 1942 ...
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Black and Gold: The History of the 29th Battalion 1915-1918
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After early training at Broadmeadows, the 29th Battalion set sail for Egypt, where the troops spent some months on garrison duty at the Suez Canal prior to embarking ...
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Bold, Steady, Faithful: The History of the 6th Battalion, the Royal Melbourne Regiment 1854-1993
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The 6th Battalion, the Royal Melbourne Regiment traces its origins back to the Goldrush days of 1854, when the colony of Victoria was faced with rebellion at Ballarat and a ...
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Brave Lads: 3RAR in South Vietnam
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'Brave Lads' is a long-awaited unit history that fills a gap in the Australian military experience in South Vietnam. The 3RAR first served in Vietnam in 1968 and later had a second tour of duty in 1971. This history pays tribute to the Brave Lads of 3RAR in their tumultuous year
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Bridging the Gap: The 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment in Timor 1999-2000
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In 1999, UNAMET was tasked to conduct the popular consultation in East Timor. The independence vote was overwhelming and as violence escalated, the staff withdrew and the UN ...
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Cobbers in Khaki: The History of the 8th Battalion 1914-1918
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The 8th Infantry Battalion was formed in August 1914, and recruited from Ballarat, central and western Victoria. Originally led by Lieutenant Colonel Bolton, the 8th Battalion served with distinction in Egypt, Gallipoli, France and Belgium ...
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Convoys up the Track: A History of 121st Australian General Transport Company (AIF) 1941-1946
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'Convoys up the Track' is the story of 121 Australian General Transport Company (AIF) which served a vast expanse of Australia from Adelaide to Eucla, Mount Gambier to ...
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Country Victoria's Own: 150 Year History of the 8th/7th Battaliion Royal Victoria Regiment and its Predecessors 1858-2008
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The history of the 8/7 RAR has its roots as far back at the Ballarat Rifle Regiment and the Bendigo Rifle Regiment, both formed in 1858. 'Country Victoria's Own' traces the history of the Ballarat infantry and the units in major cities and towns that form its 'predecessors' ...
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Crumps and Camouflets: Australian Tunnelling Companies on the Western Front
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Within the vast array of Great War literature there is little reference to the Australian tunnelling companies. Damien Finlayson wrote this book to redress that, by telling the story of the tunnellers who, like their brother soldiers, fought a daily duel with the enemy over the wire, while coping with the fear of a sudden and violent death ...
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Cycling to War: The History of the AIF/NZ Cyclist Corps 1916-19
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'Cycling to War' looks at the role played by the two Anzac Corps Cyclist Battalions in 1916-17, and the Australian Corps and New Zealand cyclists units in 1918, when during the final months of the war, cyclists became mounted infantry ...
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Defenders of Australia: The Third Australian Division 1916-1991
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From the nation's founding in 1901, the primary means of Australia's defence has been its citizen soldier. In times of peace and war, the Australian Army and the ...
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Fighting Nineteenth: History of the 19th Infantry Battalion AIF 1915-1918
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Our Price: AU$60.00
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Almost 5000 men served in the 19th Battalion, AIF during its three and half years as one of the four battalions of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Division.Using official war diaries and input from individual diaries, letters and photos provided by families, the authors have shown how men served ...
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Forever Forward: The History of the 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF 1940-45
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During its lifetime the 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion took on the strength of 151 officers and 2509 men. Of this total, about one in three members of the battalion became ...
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Forgotten Men: The Australian Army Veterinary Corps 1909-1946
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Forgotten Men is the long overdue account of the significant contribution to the Australian Army of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps in two world wars. One of the army’s smallest and least recognised corps, its humble beginnings and quiet work in the background belie the crucial role of the Corps ...
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Forward Undeterred: The History of the 23rd Battalion 1915-1918
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Forward Undeterred' describes the formation of the 23rd Battalion in early 1915, and its training at Broadmeadows and Egypt prior to landing at Gallipoli in September 1915. For the next ...
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He Came from Australia: Lieutenant Percival Ralph, MM, MID (53rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force)
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As well as a brief outline of the history of the 53rd Battalion in the last years of the war, this is primarily the story of Lieutenant Percy Ralph ...
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History of the 10th Battalion AIF
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Our Price: AU$19.50
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Written by Arthur Limb in 1919, this book gives a brief history of the 10th Battalion of the AIF – 'South Australia’s quota to the Australian Expeditionary Force' ...
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History of the Royal Australian Army Pay Corps in Victoria
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This book records the history of the Pay Corps from its beginnings in the Colonial period through the Boer War, the Great War 1914-1918, the Second World War, the post-War period, and Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam as well ...
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Ike's Marines: 36th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945
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This reprint of the 1967 unit history of the 36th Australian Infantry Battalion again makes available the proud story of this unit. They played a part in the Kokoda campaign ...
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In the Anzac Spirit: The 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment/NZ (ANZAC) South Vietnam 1968-1969
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In the Anzac Spirit' vividly describes the conditions under which 4RAR/NZ fought, and demonstarted the co-operation received from the other arms and forces involved in the war.p Few books have so ...
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In the Footsteps of Private Lynch
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Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates older by a few months are joining up and disappearing ...
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Let Enemies Beware: The History of the 2/15th Battalion 1940-1945
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This is a history of the 2/15th Battalion, written by those who experienced it. Maps, photographs and nominal roll and honour rolls are all included to make this the definitive history of this battalion ...
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Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death
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Our Price: AU$35.00
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On 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded, one of whom died six weeks later. The survivors returned from war, to live the next sixty-odd years in ...
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Men of the Ninth: A History of the Ninth Australian Field Ambulance 1916-1994
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This absorbing account of the work of the 9th Field Ambulance over a 78 year period from its inception in 1916, through to its disbandment in 1994 ...
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Milne Bay Radar: Unit History of the No. 37 Radar Station 1942-1945
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Our Price: AU$30.00
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The author of this book, Tim Jones, was a member of No. 37 Radar Station and witnessed many of the events that befell the unit. He carried a camera with ...
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Muzzle Blast: Six Years of War with the 2/2 Australian Machine Gun Battalion, AIF
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'Muzzle Blast' was written by Bill Oakes, who served with the 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion during its Desert Campaigns and in new Guinea and was on Tarakan ...
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My Corps Cavalry: A History of the 13th Light Horse Regiment 1915-1918
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The traditional image of the Australian Light Horseman is of a bushman galloping across the sandy deserts of Palestine. In 'My Corps Cavalry', Doug Hunter provides readers with ...
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Never Late: The 2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945
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This book tells the story of one of the finest battalions of the Second AIF. Formed in November 1939 the 2/9th was the first battalion raised in Queensland and it fought in Giarabub and Tobruk in North Africa, Milne Bay, Cape Endaiadere and Sanananda in Papua, on Shaggy Ridge ...
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Our Dear Old Battalion: The Story of the 7th Battalion AIF, 1914-1919
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When four Victoria Crosses were awarded to officers and men of the 7th Battalion following the Lone Pine attacks at Gallipoli during August 1915, the battalion's enviable fighting ...
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Restore to Service: Unit History 4 RSU-482 Maintenance Squadron
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Our Price: AU$33.00
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After every dramatic aircrash or emergency landing, men had to go out and retrieve what they could from the wreckage. In some cases the aircraft soon flew again, but in ...
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Story of a Battalion: 48th Battalion of the AIF
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Written by William Devine in 1919, this book describes the history of the 48th Battalion of the AIF from 16 March 1916 when they were raised in Egypt ...
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The Anzac Squadron: A History of the No. 461 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force 1942-1945
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This is the story of No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, which was formed in Britain on Anzac Day 1942 and which spent the next three years ...
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The Body Snatchers: The History of the 3rd Field Ambulance 1914-1918
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The story of Simpson and his donkey is one of the enduring legends of the Gallipoli campaign. 'The Body Snatchers' tells the story of the brave doctors, stretcher bearers, drivers and nursing orderlies who made up the 3rd Field Ambulance. The book traces their story through the battlefields of Gallipoli, France and Belgium ...
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The Fighting Fourth: A History of Sydney's 4th Battallion 1914-19
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Formed in Sydney in August 1914, the 4th Battalion AIF first landed at Gallipoli and then participated in some the fiercest fighting seen in WWI. 'The Fighting Fourth' traces the history of this battalion ...
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The Other Anzacs: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
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Profoundly moving, "The Other Anzacs" is a story of extraordinary compassion and courage shown by a group of Australian and New Zealand women whose contribution to the Anzac legend had barely been recognised in our history, until now ...
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The Pony Soldiers: The Australian Light Horse, Vietnam 1965-1966
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This book describes the combat experiences of 1 Troop of A Squadron of the 4th/19th Prince of Wales Light Horse in Vietnam. At the time it
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The Purple Devils: A History of 2/6 Australian Commando Squadron
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Formed in May 1942, 2/6 Independent Company trained in Victoria, and participated in four major campaigns were undertaken between 1942 and 1945. Along with the enemy forces and the inhospitable country, lack of supplies and isolation was ...
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The Royal Australian Corps of Transport: A History of Australian Army Transport 1973-2000
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Created in 1973, from the Royal Australian Army Service Corp and the Royal Australian Engineers (Transportation), the Royal Australian Corps of Transportation has built an impressive record of service to ...
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The Vital Factor: A History of 2/6th Australian Armoured Regiment 1941-1946
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The 2/6th Australian Armoured Regiment pioneers the use of Australian Army tanks in jungle warfare. Using US-made Stuart Light tanks, designed for open-country warfare, they achieved a breakthrough in the ...
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The Year of the Tigers: The Second Tour of 5th Battalion RAR in South Vietnam 1969-70
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Our Price: AU$70.00
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Essentially a pictorial record, this extensively revised and expanded 3rd edition of a book originally published in 1970 contains a multitude of photographs of the men involved, many contributed by the veterans from previously long-forgotten collections ...
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They Rode Into History: The Story of the 8th Light Horse Regiment Australian Imperial Force 1914-1919
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This book is a classic tale of heroism of men and horses under the terrible conditions in Egypt and Palestine, and is illustrated with over 80 photographs, maps and numerous appendices including Nominal Roll and Honours and Awards ...
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Thunder of the Hooves: A History of 12 Australian Light Horse Regiment 1915-1919
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Our Price: AU$40.00
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In writing this account of 12th Battalion's their proud battle experience, the author has drawn upon official histories, war diaries and the personal reflections of those who served in the regiment during the war of who were witnesses to its great achievements ...
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Together Up There: Unit History of 549 RAF/RAAF Fighter Squadron in Northern Australia During World War II
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Our Price: AU$30.00
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The author writes in the Prologue: '... this is the story of 549 Squadron RAF, which was formed on Queensland on 15 December 1943 and disbanded in September ...
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Tunnellers: The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the World War
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A history of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the Great War and the war underground. Thirty-two British and Dominion companies were formed. Their tasks included dealing with booby traps, ...
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Under Furred Hats: 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Written by George Lawrence Berrie in 1919, the book gives a brief description of the overseas service of the 6th Light Horse Regiment between December 1914 and August 1919 ...
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Vets at War: A History of the Australian Veterinary Corps 1909-1945
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'Vets at War' is history of history of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps, which was formed in 1909, when the army became fully mechanised. Although the Corps only ...
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We Find and Destroy: A History of 458 RAAF Squadron
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'We Find and Destroy' is the history of 458 RAAF Squadron, that served in Bomber Command in World War Two, operating Wellington aircraft in Britain and later in ...
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We Too Were Anzacs: The Sixth Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment/NZ (ANZAC), South Vietnam 1969 to 1970
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During its first tour in South Vietnam, 6RAR covered itself with honours as a result of its victory at Long Tan in August 1966. In 1969, 6RAR, now augmented ...
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Whale Oil Guards: The 53rd Battalion AIF
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Our Price: AU$19.50
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Written in 1918 by John Joseph Kennedy, the padre of the 53rd Battalion of the AIF – nicknamed in January 1917, The Whale Oil Guards ...
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Where Anzacs Sleep: The Gallipoli Photos of Captain Jack Duffy, 8th Battalion
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'Where Anzacs Sleep' is a unique historic photographic record of one Australian solder's view of Gallipoli. Captain J.S. 'Jack' Duffy served with the 8th Battallion in Gallipoli, and later with in France with the 57th Battalion ...
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