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.
A chronological diary, detailing the formation, development and amalgamation of the Derwent Regiment and Derwent Company in Tasmania from 1903 to 1965. Also including the development of the Colonial Infantry Forces in Southern Tasmania from 1860 to 1903.
A history of Tasmanian involvement in military service and conflict from European settlement of Van Diemen's Land through to modern times, written by Antony Nicholson and Stanley Cordwell and published in 2007. The book covers the full span of Tasmanian military history — from the colonial period and the Boer War through both World Wars and beyond — documenting the people, units and stories that connect Tasmania to Australia's broader military experience.
Veils and Tin Hats captures the history of the more than 200 Tasmanian nurses enlisted in Australian and British military forces during the Second World War.
The formation and development of the Country Rifle Clubs, the Auxiliary Force, the 3rd Battalion, the Tasmanian Rangers, the 12th Battalion, and the 12th/50th Battalion, 2nd AIF, from their formation on the North West and West Coast of Tasmania in 1886 until their disbandment in 1945.
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.
![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]")
![The Presence of Arms – Tasmanian People in Military Service and Conflict Since European Settlement | Antony Nicholson & Stanley Cordwell | 2007 | Signed & Numbered 278/300 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/presence-of-arms-rjTnvI.png "The Presence of Arms – Tasmanian People in Military Service and Conflict Since European Settlement | Antony Nicholson & Stanley Cordwell | 2007 | Signed & Numbered 278/300 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
