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

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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
28

[13th Light Horse Regiment] A silk greeting card personalised with the printed details of 'Trooper M.J. Fitzpatrick, 13th Australian Light Horse, AIF, Candahar Barracks, Tidworth. Christmas, 1916'.

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 96.00
29

[18th Battalion] Xmas 1917. 'Legionis Lampada Tradamus' ['Hand on the Torch of the Legion'].

[London] 1917 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 168.00
30

[18th Battery Australian Field Artillery] The Service Record of the 18th Battery Australian Field Artillery. Egypt, France, Flanders, Belgium, 1915-1919 [cover title].

London [1919]. AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
31 [33rd Battalion] SORENSEN, Lieutenant Soren Frank

A fine studio portrait photograph of Lieutenant Soren Sorensen, taken the day he embarked from Sydney on HMAT A74 'Marathon' with the 33rd Battalion.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 108.00
32

[39th Battalion] A group photograph of the '39th Battalion Ballarat Machine Gun Section May 1916'.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 108.00
33

[42nd Battalion] The 'Old Batt' Magazine. Issued quarterly by the 42nd Battalion AIF Re-Union Committee.... Volume 1, Number 2, December 1926 [drop-title].

Brisbane 1926 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
34

[43rd Battalion] 'Greeting from the Front'.

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 96.00
35 [45th Battalion] LEE, Major Joseph Edward

The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF.

Brisbane 2009 (facsimile edition)/ 1927. AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
37

[53rd Battery] An 'In Memoriam' card for 2174 Gunner Ernest Alexander Paterson, 53rd Battery.

Melbourne 1918 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 96.00
38

[Anzac Club] Souvenir Letter Card of the Anzac Club, 94 Victoria Street, London, S.W.

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 36.00
44 [Australian Flying Corps] KILBURN, George Edward

Four documents relating to the discharge of Lieutenant George Edward Kilburn, Australian Flying Corps, in 1919.

1919 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 72.00
45

[Australian Army Ordnance Depot] A 1917 Christmas card issued by the Australian Army Ordnance Depot, Millwall Docks, London.

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 96.00
46

[Australian Comforts Fund] Australian Comforts Fund. Xmas & New Year's Greetings, 1918-19 [rear cover title].

London 1918 AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 48.00
48

Australian Corps News Sheet. Extracts from Allied and Enemy Press compiled from Press cuttings supplied by the Australian War Records Section and Other Sources [drop-title masthead]. Number 2. 11th September, 1918.

[London] 1918 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
49

[Australian Engineers] Australian Commonwealth Military Forces. Australian Engineers ... On Active Service 1917 [a Christmas card].

Aldershot 1917 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 168.00
50

[Australian Expeditionary Force] A Christmas card 'From One of the Australian Expeditionary Force'.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
51

[Australian Light Horsemen] A group photograph of 33 Australian Light Horsemen, probably taken 'somewhere in NSW' during the First World War.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
52

[Australian Red Cross Society] Red Cross Handicrafts Department. No. 11 AGH, Caulfield. Saturday, 7th September, 1918. Exhibition and Sale of Returned Soldiers' Work. To be opened by Her Excellency Lady Helen Munro-Ferguson. Programme ... [cover title].

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
53

[Ballarat Training Camp, Victoria] Three photographs of groups of Australian recruits at what we believe to be Ballarat Training Camp at the Ballarat Showgrounds during the First World War.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
54

[Battalion Christmas Cards] '6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces. On Service. Christmas 1916'.

1916 AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 204.00
55

[Bayonet Training] Bayonet Training ... Issued with Army Orders dated 1st December 1916.

London 1916 AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 168.00
56 BERRIE, George

Morale. A Story of Australian Light Horsemen.

Sydney 1949 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
57

[Bulford Camp] Panoramic Letter Card. Salisbury Plain.

London [circa 1917]. AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
58 BURLA, Bob

Crossed Boomerangs. A History of all the 31 Battalions.

Loftus 2005 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
59 BUTLER, Colonel Arthur Graham (and others)

The Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918. Volume 1 [to] Volume 3.

Melbourne (Volume 1) and Canberra 1938/ 1930, 1940 and 1943. AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 1,440.00
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