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25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend was Born
25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend was Born
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On 25 April 1915 Australian troops landed on what is now called Anzac Cove. They rushed from the beach and into Australian military history, suffering many casualties on the way. Just after midday, troops from New Zealand landed at Gallipoli, and together they created the Anzac legend ...
All-Australia Memorial Victoria
All-Australia Memorial: Victoria
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A wonderful record, with a detail historical outline of the war from an Australian perspective, plus an extensive reference section and hundreds of biographies. All complemented by thousands of photos, many of Victorians who served ...
An Anzac's Story
An Anzac's Story: Roy Kyle A.I.F.
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Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on  the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World  War. There are ...
Anzac Book 1916
Anzac Book 1916
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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 was written beneath the shelter of a waterproof sheet or of a roof of sandbags - in the trenches. It contains information such as: the Landing at Gallipoli, Glimpses of Anzac ...
Anzac Digger: Engineer Gallipoli & France
Anzac Digger: An Engineer in Gallipoli and France
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Roy Denning was a First World War Soldier who went to Gallipoli as a sapper  with No. 1 Field Company, Engineers. He was an articulate man and he has ...
Anzac Memorial
Anzac Memorial
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'The Anzac Memorial’ is a comprehensive compilation of names and primary source material from the First World War, and is compiled as a memorial to the Anzacs who fought and died in the Great War.
As Rough as Bags: The History of the 6th Battalion, 1st AIF, 1914-1919
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 ...
Aussie: Australian Soldiers' Magazine
Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine
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'Aussie' was a popular Australian soldiers magazine during and after World War One.
Australia's Army War Dead 1885-1972
Australia's Army War Dead 1885-1972
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This DVD-ROM includes details on over 88,000 Australian Army service personnel, from all states, who lost their lives during or as a result of operational service between 1885 and 1972. The deaths include personnel in Australian Army units, or personnel attached to an Australian Army unit ...
Australias Fighting Sons of the Empire (NSW-Qld)
Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire: New South Wales and Queensland
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This very rare record of many who fought in the Great War (1914-18) is now offered as a fully searchable facsimile of the original ...
Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire: WA
Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire: Western Australia
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Containing nearly 1500 biographies of soldiers who fought in WWI. A great resource for those interested in the the war and the people who fought in it especially from Western Australia.
Australian War Photographs
Australian War Photographs- A Pictorial Record From November 1917 To The End Of The War
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The Australian War Photographs, contains photographs from the end of the year 1917 to the end of the Great War ...
Bean's Gallipoli: War Correspondent
Bean's Gallipoli: The Diaries of Australia's Official War Correspondent
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The story of the ANZAC Gallipoli campaign based on the diaries of CEW Bean, the official Australian correspondent at Gallipoli ...
Beersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War
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 ...
Black & Gold: History of the 29th Battalion
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 ...
Christlicher Volks-Kalendar 1917
Christlicher Volks-Kalendar 1917
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The Christlicher Volks-Kalendar is an Australian published work catering for the German community in Australia, the entire book being written in German.
Cobbers in Khaki: The History of the 8th Battalion 1914-1918
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 ...
Cycling to War: The History of the AIF/NZ Cyclist Corps 1916-19
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 ...
Digging for Diggers: Researching an Australian Soldier of the Great War 1914-1918
Digging for Diggers: A Guide to Researching an Australian Soldier of the Great War, 1914-1918
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This book provides a step-by-step guide to finding, interpreting and  appreciating the stories of those Australians who served in World War I. It  shows the research pathways, and ...
Exploring Gallipoli: An Australian Army Battlefield Guide
Exploring Gallipoli: An Australian Army Battlefield Guide
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This book and CD is intended to provide both practical touring information for the independent traveller to Gallipoli, as a guide to the amazing First World War Anzac battlefields. It includes detailed information on the key sites at Gallipoli ...
For Empire: Victorias 1st Expedit Force
For Empire: Victoria's First Expeditionary Force to the Motherland
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Facsimile. A reprint of the souvenir booklet published in September 1914, to acknowledge the departure of the Victorian unit en route to Egypt. The book has photos of every officer ...
Forgotten Valour: Story of A. Sullivan
Forgotten Valour: The Story of Arthur Sullivan VC, Shy War Hero
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'Forgotten Valour' is the story of Arthur Sullivan VC and other Australian soldiers who enlisted in the Great War but went on to fight in the Russian Civil War ...
Forward Undeterred: Hist 23rd Battalion
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 ...
From the Australian Front 1917
From the Australian Front 1917
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From the Home Front to the Front Line
From the Home Front to the Front Line: Images of the Great War
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Australia's greatest social upheaval, occurred between the years of 1914 and  1918. Few, if any families at all, remained untouched by the war, everyone  seemed to know someone ...
From Trench & Troopship: AIF 1914-18
From Trench and Troopship: The Experience of the Australian Imperial Force 1914-1919
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The shipboard Between 1914 and 1919, every troopship leaving Australia or retuning to it produced a shipboard newspaper -- the first recorded was ‘The Latrine leader and W.C. Chronicle’, produced ...
Fromelles
Fromelles
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On 19 July 1916, in the northern French village of Fromelles, Australia suffered its worst-ever military defeat when a British officer ordered 15,000 of our best and bravest to go 'over the top' and attack the German lines. Eight hours later, more than 5500 Diggers lay dead or wounded ...
Gallipoli
Gallipoli
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As a relatively young nation, there are few things that define us as a people more than the wars Australian's have fought in, and, in particular, the bloody battle on ...
Gallipoli Diaries: Anzacs Own Story
Gallipoli Diaries: The Anzacs' Own Story Day by Day
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For the first time, the Gallipoli story is told in the words of the ordinary soldier fighting in the trenches, day by day starting with the landing on 25 April 1915 fright up to the last day on 20 December 1915 ...
Gallipoli Encyclopedia
Gallipoli Encyclopedia
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Gallipoli has for over 90 years been a symbol of Australia's emergence to nationhood. The audacious gallantry of young Australians storming across the beach at Anzac Cove and then climbing ...
Gallipoli: Attack from the Sea
Gallipoli: Attack from the Sea
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The Gallipoli campaign of 1914–15 is one of the most discussed events of the First World War. Of particular fascination, and until now largely overlooked in historical accounts, are the considerable naval dimensions of the campaign ...
Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore
Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore
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It was an adventure to die for. A daring attempt to force the Dardanelles and  capture the Turkish capital Constantinople. For the Allies it was Trojan War and  crusade combined.
Gallipoli: Untold Stories
Gallipoli: Untold Stories From War Correspondent Charles Bean and Front-Line Anzacs
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'Nothing can alter what happened now; Anzac stood and still stands for  reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, resourcefulness, fidelity,  comradeship and endurance that will never admit defeat.' ...
He Came from Australia
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 ...
Heroes Before Gallipoli
Heroes Before Gallipoli: Bita Paka and that One Day in September
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Seven months before the troops landed at Gallipoli, a sailor from Melbourne  became the nation's first casualty of World War I. Able seaman William 'Billy'  Williams was shot in the ...
In the Footsteps of Private Lynch
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 ...
In the Line of Fire
In the Line of Fire: Real Stories of Australians at War, from Gallipoli to Vietnam
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Over 100,000 Australians have laid down their lives in the service of their  country over the past 100 years. Conflicts including the two world wars, Korea  and Vietnam ...
Jacka VC: Australian Hero
Jacka VC: Australian Hero
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Albert Jacka was the people's hero of the Great War. In 1919 he returned to a  triumphant welcome as thousands lined the streets to cheer the first Australian  to be ...
Major & Mrs Holt's Battle Map Gallipoli
Major and Mrs Holt's Battle Map of Gallipoli
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A full colour, double-sided, fold-out battle map of Gallipoli. It is a modern road map, which also shows contours, war cemeteries, forts/ramparts, guns/emplacements, battle lines, memorials, museums, personalities on the ...
Major & Mrs Holt's Battle Map Somme
Major and Mrs Holt's Battle Map of Somme
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A full colour, double-sided, fold-out map of the Battle of Somme. It is a modern road map, which also shows contours, war cemeteries, bunkers and trenches, demarcation stones, memorials, museums, ...
Maygar's Boys: Biographical History 8th Light Horse Regiment AIF 1914-1919
Maygar's Boys: A Biographical History of the 8th Light Horse Regiment AIF 1914-1919
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The 8th Light Horse Regiment AIF was formed in Melbourne in 1914. This well-illustrated study will serve as a detailed unit history, a medal roll, at Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine service records and a ready "who's who" of the members of the renowned "Fighting 8th Light Horse" ...
Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death
Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death
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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 ...
Monash: Outsider Who Won a War
Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War
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Australian General Sir John Monash changed the way wars were fought and won. When the British and German High commands of the 1914-1918 War failed to gain the ascendency after ...
My Corps Cavalry: History 13th Lt Horse
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 ...
Myth Maker, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
Myth Maker, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett: The Englishman who Sparked Australia's Gallipoli Legend
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It is one of the history's great ironies that an English war correspondent  sparked Australia's Gallipoli legend.p An accident of fate placed Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett on the battleship 'London'  ...
No Ordinary Determination: P. Black & H. Murray
No Ordinary Determination; Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF
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Jeff Hatwell's epic tale is shaped by the lives of two extraordinary  individuals thrown into the extraordinary and surreal work of the Gallipoli  campaign as soldiers of the ...
No Quarter: Unlawful Killing
No Quarter: Unlawful Killing and Surrender in the Australian War Experience 1915-18
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One of the rarely discussed aspects of the experience of soldiers in the  First World War was the refusal to take prisoners during battle and in some  cases ...
Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 Vol VII: Sinai and Palestine
Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 Vol VII: Sinai and Palestine
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With a chronology, many photographs, detailed maps and sketches this is truly a records of the work of the Australian Light Horse. This is an amazing record of the Australian men and the battles they fought in WWI ...
On the Western Front: Soldiers' Stories
On the Western Front: Soldiers' Stories from France and Flanders
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Official histories of the First World War are accounts of strategy and tactics, political and logistical considerations and after reading them many might ask why soldiers are rarely mentioned except in terms of military units. Even regimental histories devote more space ...
Our Dear Old Battalion: 7th Batt AIF 1914-19
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 ...
Rainbow: The Story of Rania MacPhillamy
Rainbow: The Story of Rania MacPhillamy
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Rania MacPhillamy left Australia in 1915 to work in a Cario hospital treating the wounded from Gallipoli. After the death of her soldier sweetheart she stayed on in Egypt and together with another woman, she set up a series of canteens for the men ...
Roving Editors 1918
Roving Editors 1918
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A unique look at the the First World War through the eyes of a war correspondent ...
Rural Australia & the Great War
Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga
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In the cities and in the countryside of Australia, the Great War of 1914-1918 marched to somewhat different tempos. The author evokes the wartime experience of all rural Australians by ...
Rural Australia & the Great War
Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga
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In the cities and in the countryside of Australia, the Great War of 1914-1918  marched to somewhat different tempos. The author evokes the wartime experience  of all rural Australians by ...
Russian Anzacs in Australian History
Russian Anzacs in Australian History
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Elena Govor has given voice to a part of Australian cultural history that  until now has been silent. Extraordinarily, it was men born in the former Russian Empire that constituted ...
Shattered Anzacs: Living With the Scars of War
Shattered Anzacs: Living With the Scars of War
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'Shattered Anzacs' tells the untold story of thousands of Australian families who welcomed home disabled soldiers after the First World War. It explores the profound and lasting consequences of disablement for their kin in the 1920s and 1930s ...
Somme Mud: War Experience France 1916-19
Somme Mud: The War Experience of an Australian Infantryman in France 1916-1919
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'It's the end of 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We  live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, wade in ...
Tasmania's War Record 1914-1918
Tasmania's War Record 1914-1918
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This comprehensive record 'aims at giving … an idea of what Tasmanian soldiers did and endured and of the less glorious but very useful work done by thousands of men and women who remained at home…'
Anzacs, The
The Anzacs
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Gallipoli was the final resting place for tousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was not time for escape of burial. And Gallipoli was over there was the ...
Gates of Memory: Aust Exper Great War
The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War
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Much has been written on the Anzac legend and the 60,000 Australians who lost  their lives in the Great War, but little has been said about the hundreds of ...
Great War: Guide to Service Records
The Great War: A Guide to the Service Records of All the World's Fighting Men and Volunteers
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First printed in 1998, this title has been out of print for some time now ...  but due to demand it has now been reprinted. The only book of ...
The Other Anzacs: Nurses at War 1914-1918
The Other Anzacs: Nurses at War 1914-1918
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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 ...
Shores of Gallipoli: Naval Aspects
The Shores of Gallipoli: Naval Aspects of the Anzac Campaign
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Few people realise that the Royal Australian Navy played a crucial part in  the Gallipoli campaign, a tragic operation which cost 8000 Australian lives.p Australia's best known naval historian, Dr Tom ...
The Somme
The Somme
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In the long history of the British Army, the Battle of the Somme was its  bloodiest encounter. Between 1 July and Mid-November 1916, 432,000 of its soldiers became ...
Spirit of Gallipoli: Anzac Legend
The Spirit of Gallipoli: The Birth of the Anzac Legend
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In 1915 on a rugged beach in south-western Turkey, young soldiers fighting  for their countries forged what we now know at the Anzac spirit. The mateship,  loyalty and ...
The Western Front Diaries
The Western Front Diaries: The Anzacs' Own Story Battle by Battle
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Using hundreds of brutally honest and extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the diggers in the muddy and bloody trenches, 'Western Front Diaries' reproduces their private diaries, letters, postcards and photographs to tell of their heart-rending experiences, battle by bloody battle ...
White Gurkhas: Australians at Battle of Krithia
The White Gurkhas: The Australians At the Second Battle of Krithia, Gallipoli
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A mere two weeks after the April landings at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, the 2nd Australian Infantry Brigade added further to its honours by the carge at the Second Battle of ...
The Wolf: One German Raider Terrorised Australia
The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorised Australia and the Southern Oceans in the First World War
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This is the true story of an epic voyage of destruction in World War One. Sent by Germany on a suicide mission to the far side of the world, the Wolf was a formidable and ingenious commerce-raider. Her task was to inflict maximum destruction on Allied shipping ...
They Rode Into History: 8th Light Horse Regiment AIF 1914-1919
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 ...
Thunder of the Hooves: A History of 12 Australian Light Horse Regiment 1915-1919
Thunder of the Hooves: A History of 12 Australian Light Horse Regiment 1915-1919
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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 ...
To Hell & Back: Account of Gallipoli
To Hell and Back: The Banned Account of Gallipoli by Sydney Loch
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First published in 1916 under the title 'The Straits Impregnable'. This enjoyed huge success, but once it was revealed that the account was a true story it was withdrawn from sale by censors. Now finally, this book is back in print for all to read a 'true account' of Gallipoli.
Tunnellers: Story of the Tunnelling Companies
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, ...
Uncensored Dardanelles
Uncensored Dardanelles
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'Uncensored Dardanelles'  is a collection of memoirs written by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, a British war correspondent, during WWI. Here he gives a captivating personal account of the happenings of the war in the Dardanelles.
Vets at War: Aust Army Vet Corp 1909-45
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 ...
With Guts & Bayonets
With Guts and Bayonets: Diggers and Doughboys on the Hindenburg Line 1918
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'With Guts and Bayonets' describes the Hindenburg Line battles of 1918, when  the newly-arrived and untried Americans went into action. In support were the  battle-weary Australians of the ...
With the Fortieth
With the Fortieth
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Published 'in memory of Lieutenant Norman R.J. Meagher, killed in action in the Great War 4th October 1917', this book tells the story this mans experience in the War.
   
 
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