The unit history of the 48th Battalion AIF in the First World War, written by W. Devine and published in 1919 — in the immediate aftermath of the war, making this a near-contemporary record rather than a later retrospective history. The 48th Battalion was raised in South Australia and Western Australia in 1916 as part of the 12th Brigade, 4th Division AIF, and served on the Western Front through major engagements including Pozières, Bullecourt, Dernancourt and the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918.
The unit history of the 39th Battalion AIF in the First World War, written by Alexander Patterson and published in 1934.
A 2011 facsimile reprint of the unit history of the 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion, 14th Brigade, 5th Division AIF — known as the Whale Oil Guards — written by the battalion's Padre, J.J. Kennedy DSO, and originally published in 1919.
The unit history of the 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion, 14th Brigade, 5th Division AIF — known as the Whale Oil Guards — written by the battalion's Padre, J.J. Kennedy DSO, and published in 1919.
A photographic and illustrated record of the 12th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, during its 1971 tour of duty in South Vietnam. Edited by G.F.B. Rickards and published in 1971 — the same year as the tour — this is a contemporary document rather than a later retrospective, produced at the time for the men who served.
The unit history of the 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion, 16th Brigade, 6th Division, written by Ken Clift DCM and published in 1980. The 2/3rd was recruited largely from the west and south-west of NSW and saw action across some of the most demanding campaigns of the Second World War — Bardia, Tobruk, Greece, Crete and Syria in the Middle East and Mediterranean, and then recalled to defend Australia on the Kokoda Trail and in subsequent New Guinea campaigns through to 1945.