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Bott, Lloyd F., CBE, DSC (Lieutenant), 1917-2004
Manuscript
Maker: Bott, Lloyd F
Manuscript titled `The Royal Navy's 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla', describing operations and sorties along the coast of Brittany to land agents, arms, and supplies for the French Resistance and to evac...MSS1493
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Brabin, Harold William (Warrant Officer, b.1922)
Manuscript
Maker: Brabin, Harold William
Memoirs of Harold Brabin, recalling enlistment in Australia in RAAF, training in Canada, Scotland, and Litchfield, leave in New York and England, qualification as Wireless Air Gunner and posting to 10...MSS1558
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Glen Alvie Remembers
Manuscript
Maker: Glen Alvie Recreation Reserve Committee
'Glen Alvie Remembers', a manuscript based on research into 28 former students of Glen Alvie State School who served in the First World War and 31 men and 3 women who enlisted form Glen Alvie for Worl...MSS2004
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Greatz, Edwin "Ted" Herman (419264, Flying Officer, 44 Squadron)
Manuscript
Maker: Parrott, Trevor Herbert
Manuscript titled "Ted's story: recollections of an Australian Airman in Europe during WWII". Greatz's plane went down in July 1944 and he was rescued and taken to the Freteval camp. This camp was est...MSS1828
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Griffin, Kenneth Harry (Driver, b.1907- d.1981)
Manuscript
Maker: Griffin, Kenneth Harry
Memoir written by by Kenneth Harry Griffin, "Escape from France 1942". Griffin writes about his experiences as a driver with the 2/1 Field Ambulance, his capture in Greece and internment as a prisone...MSS1072
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McKinlay, James Lumsden, Colonel, OBE, MM, b: 1894
Manuscript
Maker: McKinlay, James Lumsden
Seven typed articles "Tales of Two Wars" written for a battalion newsletter by Colonel McKinlay (ColMac). The articles which are largely anecdotal, concern Australians on the Western Front in 1916 and...MSS0765
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Mickelsen, Martin Lance
Manuscript
Maker: Mickelsen, Martin Lance
Thesis "The Allies, Free French, and the French Colonial Empire, The June 1940 Phase". Examines the roots of the Anglo French estrangement in June 1940, the history of the French Colonial Empire in Wo...MSS0907
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Roberts, Alexander Cyffin (Flight Lieutenant, b:1916)
Manuscript
Maker: Roberts, Alexander Cyffin
Typescript memoir by Flight Lieutenant Alex Roberts MID, NO.452 Spitfire Squadron RAAF (UK) entitled "One...that got away". Describes how F/Lt Roberts parachuted into German held territory in July 194...MSS1648
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104 Signals Squadron
Manuscript
Booklet prepared by members and ex-members for presentation at the 1988 Vietnam Reunion in Brisbane. The booklet contains a mixture of Vietnam recollections 1967-1968, signal corps history, poem, and ...MSS1223
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Smith, Brenton Hoyt
Manuscript
Maker: Smith, Brenton Hoyt
Thesis "The collapse of France in World War Two and the Armistice Conventions of 1940". PhD, University of Michigan, 1959.MSS0947
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Thomas, Edith Miss (d: 1991)
Manuscript
Maker: Thomas, Edith
Poems written by Miss Edith Thomas to commemorate the fallen at Gallipoli, France, Belgium; remembers the tragedy of war (including the Gulf conflict) and the history and tradition of the Australian W...MSS0834
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Toplis, Ralph Colin Murdoch, Warrant Officer II
Manuscript
Maker: Toplis, Ralph Colin Murdoch
Carbon copy typescript of Toplis' history of 7th Field Artillery Brigade, 7th Field Regiment Royal Australian Regiment. The 2nd version has been rewritten with amendments. Appendices include lists of ...MSS0794