Defence
Title
Defence
Description
This collection of items relates primarily to the major defence and military issues of the day, with particular strengths in both world wars, including a number of leaflets dealing with the conscription debates from World War I.
Subject
Social and political issues
Items in the Defence collection
Water supplies in the field : notes for medical officers
Detailed, and descriptive instructions for the sourcing, testing and decontamination of water during active service in the field.
Lest we forget
Booklet produced to commemorate the sinking and loss of life on the hospital ship ''Centaur'' and contribute money to a post-graduate nursing scholarship. The ''Centaur'' was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on 14 May 1943, and of the 332 people on…
Services guide to Cairo
A guide for British Troops serving in Cairo including where to buy shoes, hire cars, hotels, bars and restaurants.
Two ways to save for victory : £10 national savings bonds, war savings certificates
Promotional leaflet advertising war savings bonds and certificates.
Think before you spend! : help him now : buy war savings certificates or £10 national savings bonds, 3% interest paid half yearly
Promotional leaflet advertising war savings bonds and certificates. Features a woman's figure outlined in blue with the coloured profiles of two soldiers in the background.
We can give it, if you will lend it : buy national savings bonds and war savings certificates
Promotional leaflet advertising war savings bonds and certificates. Features a soldier with feet planted on a map of Australia and with a bayonet attached to his rifle in hand chasing and ejecting a foreigh intruder.
Wartime products metalworking division
Products produced, and illustrated, include Mosquito aircraft components, Wirraway engine cowlings, aluminium alloy castings, corrugated nesting cans, steel projectile boxes, powder and magazine cases, ready use lockers, clothes lockers, metal…
How to join a war savings certificates group : saving is serving
Explains how to form a savings group to buy war savings certificates and why it is better to save by groups than as individuals.
Welcome to Australia
Original held in Deakin University Library Special Collection - Pamphlet Collection. Contact Deakin University Library for access to high quality images.
The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1900 : a picture record of the movements of the British, Colonial and Boer forces engaged in the conflict. An Album of upwards of three hundred photographic engravings
"Summary of the war-1899-1900." - pp.i-xvi. Original held in Deakin University Library Special Collection - Special Collection Rare Books. Contact Deakin University Library for access to high quality images.
Action : official war photographs, D. of I.
Original held in Deakin University Library Special Collection - Special Collection Rare Books. Contact Deakin University Library for access to high quality images.
Why labour men should vote yes : what their leaders, the founders and upholders of Australian unionism, have to say on the referendum / National Referendum Council
"Issued by the National Referendum Council, 395 Collins Street, Melbourne, Adam McCay, Publicity Secretary" -- lower edge of sheet. Original held in Deakin University Library Special Collection. Contact Deakin University Library for access to high…
The Socialist's duty : preserve your nation!!! What great socialist leaders think of the principle of universal military service
"Issued by the National Referendum Council, 395 Collins St., Melbourne. Adam McCay, Publicity Secretary. A. H. Massina & Co., Printers, Melbourne." -- lower edge of sheet. Original held in Deakin University Library Special Collection. Contact…
Conscription and woman's loyalty : vote no!!!
One side is an appeal for the No vote; verso describes the Australian Peace Alliance - objects, platform, contacts in Queensland, South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria - and an enrolment form.
Conscript or wheat? : vote no
Double-sided sheet urging readers to vote "No" in the conscription referendum. Includes a cartoon by Claude Marquet, labelled "One conscript equals five tons of wheat, which will we send?"
In 1916, when the conscription referendum was before the people we were told that one of the five Australian divisions had been withdrawn to supply reinforcements, and we afterwards found it wasn't true ...
Full title: In 1916, when the conscription referendum was before the people we were told that one of the five Australian divisions had been withdrawn to supply reinforcements, and we afterwards found it wasn't true : we are again being told the same…
No conscription
"To the electors of the Commonwealth, Melbourne 27th April 1917.""No. 19" (bottom of left-hand side)Original held in Deakin University Library Special Collection. Contact Deakin University Library for access to high quality images.
Ocean front : the story of the war in the Pacific 1941-44
Issued by the Ministry of Information. Original held in Deakin University Library Special Collection - Alfred Deakin Collection. Contact Deakin University Library for access to high quality images.
Among those present, the official story of the Pacific islands at war
Prepared for the Colonial Office by the Central Office of Information. Original held in Deakin University Library Special Collection - Alfred Deakin Collection. Contact Deakin University Library for access to high quality images.