Australia WW1 Silk Postcard

A lovely example featuring a large rising sun. A short “Xmas message from Bill” on the reverse.  read more

Code: 1858

Australia WW1 Silk Postcard

Lovely example featuring a large rising sun and allied flags. A hand written message home to mother on reverse but a member of the Australian Artillery. ( Further research needed).  read more

Code: 1857

German WW1 Postcard Turkish Enva Pasha

Original WWI Postcard Enver Pascha Chief of the General Staff Ottoman Empire.  read more

Code: 1855

Australian WW2 Colour Patch

2/15th Infantry Battalion. 1941-42. Noted as being worn in the Middle East.
Original colour patch.


After completing training in Palestine, in early 1941, the 2/15th took up positions along the front line in the Western Desert, before being pushed back to Tobruk. Between April and October 1941, along with a garrison of British and other Australian personnel, the bat...  read more

Code: 1861

Australian WW2 Colour Patch

2/15th Infantry Battalion 1940-1941/42.
Original full size patch.


After completing training in Palestine, in early 1941, the 2/15th took up positions along the front line in the Western Desert, before being pushed back to Tobruk. Between April and October 1941, along with a garrison of British and other Australian personnel, the battalion helped to hold the strateg...  read more

Code: 1865

Australian WW2 Colour Patch

2/2nd Infantry Battalion
Original full size patch.  read more

Code: 1863

Australian WW2 Colour Patch

RAA 6th Division
Original full size patch.  read more

Code: 1862

Australia/British Boer War Signatures

An interesting and significant collection of (x4) autographs associated with the Boer War.

Lt-Colonel George Henry Dean ( officer commanding Adelaide Rifles). George Henry Dean (1859-1953), soldier, stock and station agent and grazier, was born on 29 June 1859 at Campbelltown, South Australia, son of English-born William Dean, stock and station agent and pastoralist, and his wife...  read more

Code: 1843

Boer War Signatures - Lieutenant General Sir Edward Cecil Bethune (BMI)

Lieutenant General Sir Edward Cecil Bethune, KCB, CVO (23 June 1855 – 2 November 1930) was a British Army officer who raised and led his own regiment, Bethune's Mounted Infantry, in the Second Boer War and directed the Territorials in the First World War. At the age of 20 he gained a commission in the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot in September 1875, seeing service in the Second Ang...  read more

Code: 1844

WW1 Silk Postcard

A Kiss from France.

Embroidered silk postcards were first made in 1900 for the Paris Exposition. The popularity of silk postcards peaked during the First World War 1914 - 1918. A thriving cottage industry began around 1915 and the quality of the early silks was quite high. However later, to satisfy demand, the workmanship was often not quite as high.

Postcard compa...  read more

Code: 1842