The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Extensive manuscript titled `The gunners: a history of Australian Artillery'. Covers establishment of artillery with British troops for colonial defence purposes, establishment of a Volunteer Artillery Corps and then permanent artillery, experiences at Sudan and South Africa, and subsequent development of the Royal Australian Artillery throughout the 20th century. Describes artillery experiences of the 1st World War (including Gallipoli, the Somme, and Ypres), the inter-war period, the 2nd World War (including home defence, Middle East, Greece and Crete, Malaya, the South Pacific, and women in the artillery), also discusses the post-war army, subsequent conflicts in Malaya and Vietnam, and current structure.
Manuscript "Australian Field guns" later published by the Australian War Memorial as "Guns of the Regiment". Provides background on the development and history of the Royal Regiment of Australian Arti
Typed and bound manuscript, 'The way it was : the story of my life through eighty years of the twentieth century and thereafter', a memoir written by Maurice Cleary. The manuscript is an extensive au
5p typed document outlining the history of the Australian Army from pre-federation through to the 1960s. Briefly covers the Sudan War, Boer War, World War I, inter-war period, World War II, interim ar
Manuscript entitled "The Lost Years" by Frank Mauri (Pen name of F.J. Giles, VX39092). Details the experiences of the author through the Second World War. First chapters deal with enlistment, prelimin
Autobiographical memoir covering early life, experience with the light horse and flying corps during WW1, subsequent career with RAAF between WW1 and WW2, role during WW2 and conflicts in Korea and Ma
Manuscript titled `When Russia fought Japan', analysing the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, with particular relevance to the subsequent development of Russian and Japanese military tactics.