Catalogue
Told in the Huts, The Y.M.C.A. Gift Book,WWI; Australian Coins, Notes & Medals by Bill Myatt & Tom Hanley; Gift from Gallipoli by Richard McRoberts; Journal of the Australian War Memorial, October 1982 - October 1988 (13); photocopied list of decorations and the nominal roll of 1st Battalion A.I.F.; various other documentation relating to awards and service of various individuals; Royal Australian Historical Society article on James T.Morisset of the 48th Regiment; Souvenir program of the visit of the German Kreuzer 'Koeln' to Sydney May 6th to May 16th 1933; various other magazines, leaflets, Corps' journals, articles and listings of a military nature. Foxing on the first item, fine - very fine. (approx 50)
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
Victoria Cross, books include, For Valour by J.E.MacDonnell; Cheshire V.C. by Russell Braddon; For Valour by Kenneth Hare-Scott; The Victoria Cross 1856-1964 by Sir John Smyth; The Story of the Victoria Cross by Sir John Smyth; For Valour, The Story of the Victoria Cross by Eric Leyland; Commander Lawless V.C. by Rolf Bennett; Submariners VC by William Jameson; The Boys Book of VC Heroes by Newton Branch; The Bronze Cross by F.Gordon Roe; The Victoria Crosses and George Crosses of the Honourable East India Company & Indian Army 1856-1945; The Victoria Cross Centenary Exhibition, 1956; Australian Winners of the Victoria Cross, booklet issued 1919, inside cover bears bookplate of Dr George Mackaness (scarce); Victoria Cross Winners of New Zealand by W.M.Chamberlain; They Dared Mightily by Lionel Wigmore; For Valour, a magazine with stories on some VC recipients plus citations of all 119 VCs; Sunday Pictorial newspaper, 22 July 1917, reprint featuring 32 new VC recipients. Fine - very fine. (17)
Estimate $150
SOLD $340
War related, newspapers, magazines and cuttings from newspapers as well as reproductions of colonial newspapers and magazines, of particular interest is the period, 1939-45. Fine. (Approx 50)
Estimate $60
SOLD $20