Michael Treloar: The Paul Lucas Collection of Australian Military History - Part III, 103021, Adelaide SA

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 30, 2021 - October 30, 2021
Page Size: 199 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
183

[Australian Comforts Fund] Christmas 1945. Australian Comforts Fund. This Christmas Hamper is the Gift of ...

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 48.00
184

[Australian Consolidated Industries] ACI at Battle Stations [cover title]. An Industry Mobilises.

[Melbourne] [early 1940s]. AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 36.00
185 [Australian Military Parachuting] O'CONNOR, John

Australian Airborne. The History and Insignia of Australian Military Parachuting.

Kingsgrove 2005 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 72.00
186

[Australian Red Cross] Xmas 1942 [cover title].

Sydney (1938); 1942 AUD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
187 BERRYMAN, Lieutenant-General Frank Horton

A signed photograph taken towards the end of the Second World War.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
188

[Freemasons in New Guinea] Kamiri Club, Noemfoor Island, Dutch New Guinea [cover title]. On Active Service. Kamiri Club, Branch of M-I-N-G, Masons in New Guinea. Instituted at Noemfoor Island, Dutch New Guinea, 21st August, 1944.

Sydney [1944]. AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
189

[Freemasons in New Guinea] MOKI. Masons on Kiriwina Island. Instituted at Coral Cathedral, Kiriwina, 31st December, 1943.

Sydney [1944]. AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
191

[Group Portrait with American Servicemen] A group photograph of approximately 120 Australian soldiers and eight American servicemen.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
192

[HMAS 'Australia'] A Merry Christmas 1944. HMAS 'Australia'. Xmas Day Menu.

At Sea 1944 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 180.00
193

[HMAS 'Sydney'] An Epic in Australian History. H.M.A.S. 'Sydney' [cover title].

[No Place circa 1940]. AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 108.00
195

[Japanese Surrender] Two original photographs of the Surrender Ceremony of the Japanese 2nd Army at Morotai, Halmahera Islands, Netherlands East Indies, on 9 September 1945.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
196

[Labuan War Cemetery] The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire. The Register of the Names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 War and have no known Grave. The Labuan Memorial. Part II (Lab-Zin).

London 1958 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 384.00
197 MANNING, H.E. (and D. Patrick COOK)

The Japanese Occupation of Ocean Island and Nauru. [Together with] Native Legends [and] The Diary of D. Patrick Cook.

[No Place circa 1946]. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 96.00
198

[Menu] A menu from the Hotel Normandy, Avenue des Francais, Beirut, 1 December 1941.

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
200

[Morotai] Advanced Headquarters, Morotai, 9th September, 1945. Issued to the Members of the Allied Forces at Morotai on the Occasion of the Surrender of the Second Japanese Army. T.A. Blamey, General, Commander-in-Chief.

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 36.00
201

[Morotai] 'Merry Xmas from Morotai 1945'

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
202

[Myer Store News] The Myer Store News. A Newspaper for the Myer Staff [an unbroken run of 37 issues from March 1939 to April 1941].

Melbourne 1939 to 1941. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
203

[New Guinea Force] NGF Amenities Services present 'All In Fun'. Saturday, January 23, 1943 at 2000 hours. Souvenir Programme. New Guinea Premiere [cover title].

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
204

[New Zealand Forces Club] New Zealand Forces Club. Hotel Quirinale, Via Nationale, Rome [cover title].

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
205

[Poster] A poster issued by Holeproof Limited, with 'Ranks of the Three Services' and 'Battle Honours and Colour Patches of the AIF' on the recto, and four maps on the verso.

[Brunswick] [circa 1940]. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 96.00
206 [Prisoner of War] BAILEY, NX46293 Private Sidney Alfred

An ex-POW identity card issued to NX46293 Private Sidney Alfred Bailey, 2/4th Battalion, after the liberation of Stalag 317 (XVIII C), Markt Pongau, Austria, on 14 May 1945.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
207 [Prisoner of War] DALTON, VX37705 Warrant Officer Class 2 Royce John

Six snapshots sent by Beryl Dalton (his wife) to VX37705 WO2 Royce John Dalton, 2/24th Infantry Battalion, in 1943 and 1944 while he was a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
208 [Prisoner of War] MORTIMER, 27517 Company Quartermaster Sergeant V.H.

A 'Wartime Log for British Prisoners' kept by 27517 CQMS V.H. Mortimer, 2nd Transvaal Scottish Regiment, a prisoner of war ('223778') held in Stalag IV-D, Torgau, Germany.

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
209 [Prisoner of War] ROBERTS, Lieutenant Warwick Hardy

A 'Wartime Log for British Prisoners' kept by Lieutenant Warwick Hardy, 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion, an Australian prisoner of war ('2381/24') held in Oflag VA, Weinsberg, Germany.

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 528.00
210

[Prisoner of War] A small archive relating to VX46035 Private Alan Hambley Moore, 2/9 Field Ambulance, a prisoner of war of the Japanese.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 72.00
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