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Central News Agency 1919. With the South African Artillery in Egypt & Palestine (from Nick Fletcher).

Giles & Co 1918 2nd ed. (by E. F. Hanman). 15th Inf. AIF. Training of the Australians in Egypt (from Nick Fletcher)

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Lothian Book Pub. 1919 by W H Downing. Probably the earliest collection of Soldier’s slang ( from Nick Fletcher)

Australasian Authors Agency c1920. Downing’s service in 57th Inf. Batt. AIF. One of the best Australian accounts (from Nick Fletcher)

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Australasian Authors Agency c1910 Cull served as a Capt. With 22nd Infantry, AIF. Mostly about his time as a POW (from Nick Fletcher)

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The 41st Infantry Batt., AIF by Members of the Intelligence Staff. 3rd. Div. (1920? France?)

(from Nick Fletcher).

Royal Naval Div. Officers’ Ass. 1934. An account of the Duchess of Richmond pilgrimage cruise to the Gallipoli battlefields

(from Nick Fletcher).

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Australasian News Co 1915. An account of the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces capture of New Guinea from the Germans in 1914 (from Nick Fletcher)’

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Cassell 1917 by (Gladys Adeline Hain) Cover by Fred Leist. Novel. ‘Billjim’ was meant to be the Aussie equivalent of ‘Tommy’ but it failed to be adopted as ‘Digger’ was (from Nick Fletcher)

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Hodder 1916 A shortened version of Buley’s ‘Glorious Deeds of the Australasians’ q.v. (from Nick Fletcher)

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1st Batt. Assoc. 1931 (from Nick Fletcher)

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Anzac Wireless Squadron Committee 1927. Ed. by Eric Keast Burke. Lavishly illustrated (from Nick Fletcher)

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AIF Pub. 1919. Cover by Fred Leist. The work of Australian War Photographers inc. George Wilkins & Frank Hurley (from Nick Fletcher)

Floessell 1918. Cover by Percy Leason. Matthews worked for the Sidney Sun, where most of these stories were first published. He served with 4th Batt. AIF (from Nick Fletcher).

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V K Jones 1920. Herbert Horner served in 3rd Machine Gun Company and was captured at Lagnicourt in April 1917. During his captivity he pondered the chances of a Revolution amongst the allies. (from Nick Fletcher)

Palmer & Hayward 1918. The large paperback ed. Of this Official War Artists work (from Nick Fletcher)

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Angus & Robertson 1919. Ed. By Gullett, Barrett & Barker. An Anthology of verse, prose & pictures of the Light Horse in the Middle East (from Nick Fletcher)

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Cassell 1917. Possibly the same as the volume alongside

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Pictorial Bindings from ANZAC

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Kelly 1917 by James Green. Chaplain with the 55th Batt., AIF. Illustrated by Henry Evison (from Peter Burness)

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Observer Works. NZ 1916 A collection of Lyrics & Sonnets & Wilkie & Co., Dunedin, NZ 1919. Given to all students of the town. (both from Andrew Harrison)

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Wellington Pub. Co. 1918 2nd ed. Will Lawson’s account of the New Zealand Military training ground ( from Andrew Harrison)

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July 1927 from the pages of Aussie Magazine. Stories from the trenches (from Andrew Harrison)