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Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings
Added: Jun 9, 2026

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.


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Tasmanians in the Transvaal War - including photographs of individual soldiers | John Bufton | First Edition 1905, S.G. Loone [USED – HC – Rare]
Added: Aug 7, 2026

John Bufton's account of Tasmania's contribution to the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa — referred to here by the contemporary term "Transvaal War," not to be confused with the earlier First Boer War of 1880–81.


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Books about Tasmania's contribution to military campaigns since Federation.

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Lilydale Conflict or Unity 1914-1918
An examination of a Tasmanian rural district during the Great War / WWI.

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Mathinna - They Answered the Call
A history of Mathinna through a remembrance of the men who served in World War One.

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No Chains in the Sky - Alan Bowman Tasmanian War Pilot

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.


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Not a Hero in Sight - used
Tasmanian Brad Cooper tells of his experiences as an Australian soldier in the Vietnam conflict.

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Oddfellows – Picnic Day Broken Hill, 1 January 1915 | Nicholas Shakespeare | 2015 [SC]

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.


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Of Storms and Rainbows – The Story of the Men of the 2/12th Battalion AIF | Alex Graeme-Evans | 2-Volume Set [USED – HC]

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.


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One Woman's War and Peace
A nurse's journey in the Royal Australian Air Force - East Timor, Bali, Afghanistan - by Wing Commander Sharon Brown (Ret'd).

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Our Forgotten Heroes

Foreign military awards presented to Tasmanians during World War One. Signed, numbered 21 of a limited edition of 100 copies.


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Our Heroes
Tasmania's Victoria Cross recipients.

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Remembering a Tasmanian Hero - Major Justin Hutchinson

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.


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