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Australia in World War I

Personal papers

Jock Bosher

P16/1/1 - Pamphlet 'Conscription: What for?', Australian Peace Alliance, Melbourne, 1916

P16/1/2 - Pamphlet 'Guilty or not Guilty?', Industrial Workers of the World, Sydney, 1916

P16/3/1 - Handbill advertising a concert and presentation to Victoria Cross winners who escorted Archbishop Mannix in St Patrick's Parade, Melbourne, c. 1918

P16/3/3 - Anti-conscription handbill: Lieutenant Jacka's Father Answers Lying Press, authorised by PLC, Melbourne, 1916

P16/3/4 - Anti-conscription handbill: The No Vote is the Safe Vote, authorised by W Pike, Melbourne, 1916

P16/3/5 - Anti-conscription handbill: Slave Conspiracy, authorised by John Curtin, Melbourne, 1916

P16/3/6 - Anti-conscription handbill: The Kaiser would like you to vote Yes, authorised by W Pike, Melbourne, 1916

P16/3/7 - Anti-conscription handbill: When I shall fight, by Eugene V Debs, 1916

 

Les Barnes

P8/3Conscription, referenda (leaflets), 1916-18 

 

Ken Buckley

N260/58 - Trade in the South Pacific during the First World War, 1914-1918

 

John Charles Coupe

P19/2Australian Trade Unionism and Conscription, the report of proceedings of the Australian Trade Union Congress, Melbourne, 1916 

 

Jack and Ruth Davison

P117/11 - Journal articles, Amalgamated Engineering Union Retired Members' Association - includes correspondence with Professor EL Wheelwright and 'War Experiences 1914-18' typescript.

P117/103 - Jack Davison's memoirs, notes and correspondence - includes war experiences, 1914-1918

 

Mark Feinberg 

P17/5/4 - Stead's War Facts, Harry Stead, Melbourne, 1918

 

Eric Fry

ANUA238/65 - First World War (File 1), 1960s-1990s

ANUA238/66 - First World War (File 2), 1960s-1990s

ANUA238/67 - First World War (File 3), 1960s-1990s

 

Richard Gilson

ANUA308/200 - German Administration Records - Proclamations, and Schultz's file relating to Samoans and the First World War, 1914

 

HE Holland

P5/1/3 - Pamphlet 'British Workshops and the War', 1917

P5/1/7 - Pamphlet 'The Drain of Armaments', 1913

P5/1/8 - Pamphlet 'Conscription and Conscience', 1916

P5/1/18 - Pamphlet 'The Romance of Air-Fighting', 1917

P5/1/20 - Pamphlet 'America and the Cause of the Allies', 1916

P5/1/21 - Pamphlet 'America and the European War', 1915

P5/1/22 - Pamphlet 'Can Trade be Captured?', c. 1915

P5/1/23 - Pamphlet 'Commercial Security: Can it be Obtained by Armaments?', c. 1915

P5/1/24 - Pamphlet 'Modern Wars and the Peace Ideal', c. 1915

P5/1/25 - Pamphlet 'Shall this War End German Militarism?', Norman Angell, London, Union of Democratic Control, 1915

 

Jack Kavanagh

N336/43 - Australian Workers Union, Unionists remember this! - leaflet on the referendum proposals on industrial conscription, undated

 

Brij Lal

ANUA378/473 - Fiji at War 1914 - 1918. Copies from the Public Record Office, London - CO83, 1914-1918

 

Milton J Lewis

P25/1/38Britain and the war: A study in diplomacy, by CH Norman, National Labour Press, Manchester, 1914

P25/3/8 - The Day - and After: War speeches of the Rt Hon WM Hughes, Cassell, London, 1916

 

Joy London

ANUA702/24 - First World War ration and health insurance cards and assorted army papers, 1914-1918

 

Geoff McDonald

P94/54/9Leaflets relating to compulsory military service (conscription), 1914-1918 

 

J Normington Rawling 

N57/155 - Notes on World War I, 1940s-1960s

N57/439 - Anti-conscription campaign leaflets and handbills, 1916-1917

N57/440 - Australian Freedom League handbills and leaflets, 1916-1917

N57/441 - Australian Peace Alliance handbills and leaflets, 1916-1917

N57/442 - Anti-conscription leaflets and handbills produced by Anti-Conscription Committee of Free Religious Fellowship, Australian Women's Peace Army, Victorian Socialist Party, 1916-1917

N57/443 - Australian Union of Democratic Control report of 3rd Australian Peace Conference, 1918

N57/444 - Melbourne Peace Society (The Peace Society, Victorian Branch), 1920-1921

N57/445Returned Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Nurses’ Anti-Imperialist Association, 1932 

N57/446Ex-Servicemen’s Defence Corps, 1932 

N57/542Returned Sailors and Soldiers’ Imperial League of Australia handbills, 1933, 1939 

N57/578 - World War I miscellaneous papers, 1915

N57/579 - World War I censorship, 1917-1918 

N57/580 - Holsworthy Concentration Camp, 1916-1922

N57/623 - Cuttings on outbreak of World War I, 1914

N57-1006 - After the war what?, Adela Pankhurst, Melbourne, Victorian Socialist Party, 1916

N57/1305 - 'Child conscription: our country's shame', JF Hills, 3rd edition, Sydney, Australian Freedom League, 1912

N57/1306 - The invasion bogey: an anti-militarist pamphlet, Sydney, Australian Socialist Party, 1912

N57/1307 - 'The crime of conscription', HE Holland, Sydney, Australian Socialist Party, 1912

N57/1308 - 'Conscription in New Zealand and Australia', edited and published by TC Gregory, Bristol, 1912

N57/1309 - 'The menace of foreign attack', JF Hills, Glenelg, SA, 1914

N57/1310 - 'Compulsory military training: an analysis and an exposure', Sydney, Australian Freedom League, 1914

N57/1311 -  'Manifesto', Australian Freedom League, Sydney, 1914

N57/1312 - 'Australian conscription for service abroad unnecessary and unjust', Melbourne, WJ Miles, RS Ross, 1916

N57/1313 - 'The socialist case for conscription', Melbourne, DH Newman, 1916

N57/1314 - 'The war and the Sydney Labor Council', Sydney, Socialist Labor Party of Australia, EE Judd, 1917

N57/1315 - Commonwealth Parliament, Report of proceedings of conference on subject of securing of reinforcements under voluntary system for Australian Imperial Force now serving abroad held at Federal Government House, Melbourne, Government Printer, April 1918

N57/1316 - Conscription under camouflage: compulsory military training in Australia, JP Fletcher and JF Hills, Adelaide, 1919

N57/1317 - 'Boy conscription and camp morality: the menace of Sir James Allen's policy', HE Holland, New Zealand, c. 1920

N57/1318 - 'Camp morality', Adelaide, Australian Freedom League, HE Holland, c. 1920

N57/1395 - 'Australia's share in the war, and who is paying for it?', Arius, Sydney, New South Wales Australian Labor Party, 1918

N57/1399 - The spirit of the bayonet. A supressed speech: Militarism stripped too naked, London, No More War Movement, 1918

N57/1450 - Commonwealth Department of Defence, 'Manual of war precautions', 3rd edition, Melbourne, 1916

N57/1858 -  'Ireland's case against conscription', Eamon de Valera, Dublin, 1918

N57/2297-2312 - Photographs taken at Holsworthy Concentration Camp, New South Wales, c. 1915-1918 

 

Betty Reilly

N188/24 - Handwritten notes - original folder, entitled '1915-18 - War and Conscription', 1990

 

Mavis and Alec Robertson

N437/765 - Pamphlet 'The Crime of Conscription', HE Holland, 1912

N437/784 - Pamphlet 'War! And its Remedy: An appeal to the Peace Party', H. Christopherson, 1917

 

JB Scott 

P3/1/173 - The War and the Sydney Labor Council, EE Judd, 1917

 

Kosmas Tsokhas

ANUA499/45 - Notes and photo copies on the Labour process during the First World War from the records of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales held at the ANU Archives, 1980s

 

Ian Turner

P2/10/8 - Photograph – Greetings and thanks to all workers who assisted to obtain for us our freedom’- from ten of the Sydney Twelve’, imprisoned during World War I, c. 1918 

 

Charles Morris Woodford

ANUA 481/107 - Letter from Glanvill Corney to Woodford, South Kensington, 24 November 1915 regarding Woodford's son who had been taken as a prisoner of war during WWI, 1915