Military

A young Tasmanian soldier's journey through the terrors and boredom of World War Two - life with the coastal artillery, the Australian Water Transport and then an Army Small Ship to Borneo.

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.

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.

With The Volunteers is an historical diary of the Volunteer Military Forces of the North West and West Coasts of Tasmania 1886-1986.