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.
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.
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.