A newly researched true account of Billy Gadd, a young lad from Tasmania's West Coast mining town of Queenstown who managed to enlist in the AIF during World War I while under the legal age.
Those who served, their families and the impact of World War One volume I - the 12th and 52nd Battalions. Tasmanian ANZACS considers the unique contribution of Tasmanian soldiers in WWI and the pain endured by their grieving families.
Jessie Elizabeth Simons's first-hand account of her three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese during the Second World War — one of the Australian nurses captured in the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and held captive until the Japanese surrender in 1945. Simons was Tasmanian. Her account, published in 1954, is one of the earliest first-hand records by an Australian Army nurse of the prisoner of war experience in the Pacific — written while the events were relatively fresh and before the wave of later memoirs and histories shaped how this story was told.
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Books about Tasmania's contribution to military campaigns since Federation.
Tasmanian war pilot Alan Bowman (1911-1941) joined the fledgling Royal Australian Air Force as a pilot cadet in 1930, and from that time until his death in the Western Desert in 1941, maintained contacted with his family at Deloraine by writing letters about his life and experiences, his travels, his feelings and his hopes.
On New Year's Day 1915, a picnic train carrying hundreds of Broken Hill residents to the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows picnic was attacked by two men — Mulla Abdullah, an Afghan camel driver, and Gool Mahomed, an ice cream vendor — who opened fire on the train, killing four people and wounding seven before being pursued by a posse and killed.
The two-volume unit history of the 2/12th Battalion AIF, written by Alex Graeme-Evans and published in 1989 and 1991. The 2/12th was a Tasmanian infantry battalion raised at the outbreak of the Second World War, and its history covers service in the Middle East, the defence of Timor, and the Pacific campaign through to the end of the war.
Remembering a Tasmanian Hero - the Life of Major Justin Hutchinson is the story of a young Tasmanian from Hamilton who was posted to the 9th and 3rd Light Horse Brigades, serving in Gallipoli, before being transferred to the 58th Battalion; he was killed at Fromelles in July 1916, aged only 21.
Volume 1 in a history of WWI Tasmanian Glamorgan Municipality Volunteers, covering family names from A to K drawn from the Tasmania townships of Swansea, Bicheno, Cranbrook, Apslawn, Llandaff, Seymour and others.
![While History Passed | Jessie Elizabeth Simons | 1954 [USED – HCDJ – Worn]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/while-history-passed-cwC33l.png "While History Passed | Jessie Elizabeth Simons | 1954 [USED – HCDJ – Worn]")
![Oddfellows – Picnic Day Broken Hill, 1 January 1915 | Nicholas Shakespeare | 2015 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/oddfellows-8HlLJC.png "Oddfellows – Picnic Day Broken Hill, 1 January 1915 | Nicholas Shakespeare | 2015 [SC]")
![Of Storms and Rainbows – The Story of the Men of the 2/12th Battalion AIF | Alex Graeme-Evans | 2-Volume Set [USED – HC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/of-storms-and-rainbows-Dv6xxV.png "Of Storms and Rainbows – The Story of the Men of the 2/12th Battalion AIF | Alex Graeme-Evans | 2-Volume Set [USED – HC]")
