Catalogue
Tasmanians in the Transvaal War, by John Bufton, Launceston 1905, pp 534, cloth bound original edition. Fine.
Estimate $300
Australia Training Manuals, includes Signal Training (All Arms) Pamphlet No 7 Radiotelephone Procedure, 1969; Manual of Land Warfare Part Two Signals Training Volume 1 Pamphlet No 1 Land Force Tactical Communications (All Corps), 1981; Training Information Bulletin Number 18 Laying, Recording and Marking of a Minefield, undated; Manual of Land Warfare Part One Volume 1 Pamphlet No 5 Fire Support (Provisional), 1977. Fine. (4)
Estimate $40
New Zealand, Certificate of Discharge, a parchment document dated at Dunedin on 20 November 1913 and confirmed on 26 November 1913 for the discharge of No. 100 Gunner Thomas Fitzpatrick of Royal N.Z. Artillery having reached the age for retirement after an unblemished record of over 34 years service; World War II, small b&w photograph of three soldiers marked on reverse, 'Snowy Gillespie, Captain Harry/Barnett, 2nd L/T A.B.Cottrel (sic) M.C./Fuka,/Western Desert/Egypt/Xmas Day 1941'. Very fine.
Estimate $40
Wartime newspaper, The Sydney Mail dated 5 January 1916 devoted to war news and photos of troops, German losses and listings of war dead and wounded plus photos found on battlefield to see if anyone could identify them; British Campaign Medals 1914-2005 by Peter Duckers; 2008 edition; British & Foreign Ribbons by Captain H. Taprell Dorling DSO, RN, 1946. The first in a battered condition but interesting, the second very fine, the last fine but with some loss of colour on cover. (3)
Estimate $30