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WORLD WAR 1 UNIT HISTORY BOOKS

Here is a LIST of Australian World War 1 Units who have written their Unit Histories.

Some of these books may be hard to find and may be out of print so I suggest you get in touch with either your local Council Library or the State Library in your State and ask them for help in locating these books.



WORLD WAR 1

1st Infantry Battalion - History Committee.
2nd Infantry Battalion - Nulli Secundus - A History of the 2nd Battalion AIF 1914-1919.- Authors - F.W. TAYLOR and T.A. CUSACK.
3rd Infantry Battalion - From Randwick to Hargicourt; Author - Capt Eric WREN
4th Infantry Battalion - The Fighting Fourth, A History of Sydney's 4th Battalion 1914-1919. Author - Ron AUSTIN.
5th Infantry Battalion - Forward with the Fifth; Author - A.W. McKEOWN.
6th Infantry Battalion - As Rough as Bags, A History of.... Author - Ron AUSTIN.
7th Infantry Battalion - Author - Lieut Arthur Dean and Dr E W GUTTERIDGE
8th Infantry Battalion - Cobbers in Khaki, A History of.......Author - Ron AUSTIN.
9th Infantry Battalion - Campaigning with the Fighting Ninth; Author - E.W. HAMMOND.
10th Infantry Battalion - The Fighting Tenth; Author - Cecil B. LOCK; 
10th Infantry Battalion - Silent Voices - The Story of the Tenth. Author - Robert KEARNEY.
11th Infantry Battalion - Fremantle to France, 11th Battalion AIF 1914-1919. - Author - Ian GILL.
12th Infantry Battalion - The Story of the Twelfth; Author - Capt L.M. NEWTON.
13th Infantry Battalion - The Fighting Thirteenth; Author - Capt T.A. WHITE.
14th Infantry Battalion - The History of the Fourteenth Battalion AIF - Author - Newton WANLISS.
15th Infantry Battalion - The History of. the 15th Battalion AIF 1914-1918; Author - Thomas Percival CHATAWAY.
16th Infantry Battalion - The Old Sixteenth; Author - Capt Cyril LONGMORE.
17th Infantry Battalion - The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion, AIF - Author - MACKENZIE and Keith WEMYSS.
18th Infantry Battalion - Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles. Author - Joseph MAXWELL, VC, MC, DCM
19th Infantry Battalion - The Fighting Nineteenth - History of the 19th Battalion, AIF 1915-1918.  Author - Wayne MATTHEWS and David WILSON.
20th Infantry Battalion - UNKNOWN.
21st Infantry Battalion - The Story of the Twenty-First;  Author - Capt A.R. MACNEIL.
22nd Infantry Battalion - With the Twenty-Second; History of the Twenty-Second Battalion, AIF ;  Author - Capt Eugene GORMAN..
23rd Infantry Battalion -
Forward Undeterred; The History of the 23rd Battalion, AIF Author - Ronald AUSTIN.
24th Infantry Battalion - The Red and White Diamond - History of the 24th Battalion, AIF.  Author - Sgt W.J.HARVEY.
25th Infantry Battalion - Black over Blue; The 25th Battalion at War 1915-1918. Author - Bob DONELEY.
26th Infantry Battalion - Unit History is Currently Being Written.  (To Be Advised)
27th Infantry Battalion - The Blue and Brown Diamond; Author - Lt Col W. DOLLMAN and Sgt H.M. SKINNER.
28th Infantry Battalion - The Blue and White Diamond; 28th Battalion, AIF  Author - Neville BROWNING.
29th Infantry Battalion - Black and Gold; The History of the 29th Battalion, AIF 1915-1918.  Author - Ronald AUSTIN.
30th Infantry Battalion - The Purple and Gold; A History of the 30th Battalion, AIF - Author - Lt Col H. SLOAN.
31st Infantry Battalion -
Unit History is Currently Being Written.  (To Be Advised)
32nd Infantry Battalion - Second to None - A Memorial History of the  32nd Infantry Battalion AIF 1915-1919; Peacock Publications, Norwood SA  (Published 2006)
33rd Infantry Battalion - Never a Backward Step; A History of the 1st/33rd Battalion AIF - Author - John EDWARDS.
34th Infantry Battalion -
A Short History of the 34th Battalion, AIF. Authors - E. BEAVER and J. MELDRUM.
35th Infantry Battalion - Newcastle's Own, The 35th Battalion, 9 Brigade, 3rd Division AIF Author - R.G. HOWARD.
36th Infantry Battalion - UNKNOWN.
37th Infantry Battalion - The Thirty-Seventh, History of the Thirty-Seventh. Author - Lieut Norman Gordon McNICOL.
38th Infantry Battalion - The Story and Official History of the 38th Battalion. Author - Eric FAIREY.
39th Infantry Battalion - The Thirty-ninth, The History of the 39th Battalion, AIF. Author - Lt Col Alexander Thomas PATERSON.
40th Infantry Battalion - The Fortieth; History of the 40th Battalion, AIF Author - Capt F C GREEN.
41st Infantry Battalion - The Forty-First; (Compiled by Members of the Intelligent Staff Author) - Lieut Frederick William MacGIBBON.
42nd Infantry Battalion - Spirit of the Forty-Second, 42nd Battalion, AIF Author - Vivian BRAHMS.
43rd Infantry Battalion - The Forty-Third; Story and Official History of the 43rd Battalion, AIF Authors - Capt Eustace James COLLIVER and Lieut B.H.RICHARDSON.
44th Infantry Battalion - The Westralian Battalion - 44th Battalion, AIF; Author - Neville BROWNING..
45th Infantry Battalion - The Chronical of the 45th Battalion; Author - Major Joseph Edward LEE.
46th Infantry Battalion - We were the 46th, 46th Battalion, AIF (Limited Edition).Author - Ian Leonard POLANSKI.
47th Infantry Battalion - Battle Scarred - the 47th Battalion in the First World War. Author - Craig DEAYTON.
48th Infantry Battalion - The Story of a Battalion, 48th Battalion in the AIF - Author - Chaplain William DEVINE;   ALSO -
48th Infantry Battalion - Leane's Battalion, History of the 48th Battalion, AIF. Author - Neville BROWNING.
49th Infantry Battalion - Always Faithful: A History of the 49th Battalion 1914-1982 (Includes World War 2 History) Author - Fred CRANSTON.
50th Infantry Battalion -
Hurcombe's Hungary Half Hundred - A Memorial History of the 50th Infantry Battalion AIF 1916-1919. Author - Roger FREEMAN.
51st Infantry Battalion - For Kings and Cobbers; 51st Battalion, AIF 1916-1919; Author - Neville BROWNING.

52nd Infantry Battalion - A History of 52nd Battalion 1916-1918; Author - Neville BROWNING.
53rd Infantry Battalion - Whale Oil Guards; 53rd Battalion, AIF Author - Chaplain John Joseph KENNEDY.
54th Infantry Battalion - Our Gift to the Empire; 54th Battalion, AIF 1916-1919; Author - Ross ST CLAIRE.
55th Infantry Battalion - From the Snowy to the Somme; A History of the 55th Battalion AIF (Unit History is Currently being Written)
56th Infantry Battalion - The Gallant Company; 56th Battalion, AIF  Author - Harold Roy WILLIAMS.
57th Infantry Battalion - To the Last Ridge; The Author's Experience with the 57th Battalion, AIF; Author - Walter DOWNING.
58th Infantry Battalion - Give Me Back My Dear old Cobbers - 58th and 59th Battalions AIF Author - Robin CORFIELD.
59th Infantry Battalion - History of the 59th Battalion, AIF - Author - 59th Battalion AIF Association.
60th Infantry Battalion - Hold Hard, Cobbers; A History of the 57th and 60th Battalions Vol 1; (1912-1990) Author - Robin CORFIELD.

6th Machine Gun Company - In Good Order; 6th Machine Gun Company, AIF  Author - W A CARNE.
14th Machine Gun Company -
Unit History is Currently Being Written.  (To Be Advised)


8th Field Ambulance - Author - L W Colley-Priest.

2nd Light Horse Regiment - Author - Lt Col G.H. Bourne.
5th Light Horse Regiment - A History of......; Author - Brig LC Wilson and Capt Wetherell.
4th Light Horse Field Ambulance - Riders of Destiny; Author - Patrick M. Hamilton, OBE.
6th Light Horse Regiment - Under Furred Hats; Author - Lieut G L Berrie.
7th Light Horse Regiment - Author - Lt Col J D Richardson.
9th Light Horse Regiment - A History of .....; Author - Major T H Darley.
10th Light Horse Regiment - Westralian Cavalry in the War; Author - LtCol A C N Olden.
11th Light Horse Regiment - A History of.....; Author - E W Hammond.

3rd Pioneer Battalion - A History of......; Major M B B Keatinge.
5th Pioneer Regiment; Author - F H Stevens.

7th Field Company Engineers; Author - R H Chatto.
11th Field Company Engineers; Author - History Committee.

1st Field Artillery Brigade; Author - History Committee.
7th Field Artillery Brigade - With the 27th Battery in France.

No 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps - The Battle Below; Author - Wing Comdr H N Wrigley.
No 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps - Australian Airmen; Author - Lieut E J Richards.
1st Tunnellers; Author - Capt O H Woodward.
Mesopotamia Units - With Horse and Morse - Author - Keast Burke.

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WORLD WAR 2 UNIT HISTORY BOOKS

Here is a LIST of Australian World War 2 Units who have written their Unit Histories.

Some of these books may be hard to find and may be out of print so I suggest you get in touch with either your local Council Library, the State Library in your State and/or The National Library in Canberra and ask them for help in locating the book you are seeking.



WORLD WAR 2

2/1 Infantry Battalion - The First at War 1939-45; Author - E C Givney.
2/2 Infantry Battalion - Purple over Green - Author - S Wick.
2/3 Infantry Battalion - War Dance; Author - K Clift. 1980.
2/4 Infantry Battalion - White over Green, A History of ....; Author - C. Chrystan.
2/5 Infantry Battalion - All the King's Enemies; Author - S. Tregellis-Smith 1988.
2/6 Infantry Battalion - Nothing over Us; Author - D. Hay 1984.
2/7 Infantry Battalion - The fiery Phoenix; The Story of the 2/7th Australian Infantry Battalion; Authors - W.P. BOLGER, J.G.LITTLEWOOD and F.C.FOLKLAND.
2/8 Infantry Battalion - The Second Eighth; Author - UNKNOWN.
2/9 Infantry Battalion - In the Footsteps of Ghosts; Author - Bill Spencer 1999.
2/9 Infantry Battalion - Not a Conquering Hero (Semi-Unit history) Author - Frank Rolleston.
2/9 Infantry Battalion - Never Late; Author - Gordon Dickens. (Australian Military History Publications)
2/10 Infantry Battalion - Purple and Blue; (The Adelaide Rifles); Author - F. Allchin 1958.
2/11 Infantry Battalion - The City of Perth Australian Infantry Battalion.
2/12 Infantry Battalion - Of Storms and Rainbows (2 Volumes); Author - A. Graeme-Evans 1989.
2/13 Infantry Battalion - Bayonets Abroad; Author - UNKNOWN.
2/14 Infantry Battalion - A History of .....; Author - W B Russell. 1948.
2/14 Infantry Battalion - Men of the 2/14 Battalion; Author - J C McAllester 1990.
2/14 Infantry Battalion - The Silent Seventh (2/14 Battalion - Syria to Kokoda) Author - Peter Dornan.
2/15 Infantry Battalion - Let Enemies Beware; Author - R Austin.
2/16 Infantry Battalion - A Thousand Men at War; Author - M Uren 1959.
2/17 Infantry Battalion - What We Have We Hold; Author - UNKNOWN.
2/18 Infantry Battalion - Against All Odds 1939-45; Author - J Burfitt 1991.
2/19 Infantry Battalion - Grim Glory of ......; Author - R W Newton.
2/20 Infantry Battalion - UNKNOWN.
2/21 Infantry Battalion - Ambon, Island of Mist; Author - Courtney T Harrison.
2/22 Infantry Battalion - Rabaul - 1942; Author - Douglas Aplin.
2/22 Infantry Battalion - Whereabouts Unknown; Author - UNKNOWN.
2/22 Infantry Battalion - Rabaul - Hostages to Freedom; Author - Peter Stone.
2/23 Infantry Battalion - Mud and Blood, "Albury's Own"; Author - Pat Share.
2/24 Infantry Battalion - A History of the 2/24 Infantry Battalion of the 9th Division; Author - R P Serle.
2/25 Infantry Battalion - Men of Courage; Author - Allan Draydon.
2/26 Infantry Battalion - The Battalion Story; Author - Ron Magarry.
2/27 Infantry Battalion - Brown and Blue Diamond at War; Author - John Burns.
2/28 Infantry Battalion - The Second 28th; Author - Phillip Masel.
2/29 Infantry Battalion - A History of ......; Author - UNKNOWN.
2/30 Infantry Battalion - Galleghan's Greyhounds; Author - AW Penold; WC Bayliss and KE Krispin.
2/31 Infantry Battalion - UNKNOWN.
2/32 Infantry Battalion - UNKNOWN.
2/33 Infantry Battalion - The Footsoldiers; Author - W. Crooks. ((Brookvale: Printcraft Press, 1971)
2/40 Infantry Battalion - Doomed Battalion - Author - Peter Henning.
2/48 Infantry Battalion - Tobruk to Tarakan; Author - John G Glenn.
22nd Infantry Battalion - With the Twenty-second; Author - E Gorman.
22nd Infantry Battalion - Etched in Green; Author - Graeme MacFarlane.
26th Infantry Battalion - Never Unprepared; Author - A N Turrell.
29th/46th Infantry Battalion - Unofficial History of.......; Author - Rupert Charlott.
31st/51st Infantry Battalion - At War with ......1940-46; Author - Major W E Hughes.
36th Infantry Battalion - Ike's Marines; Author - S & L Briggs. 1970.
39th Infantry Battalion - To Kokoda and Beyond; Author - V Austin.
39th Infantry Battalion - Those Ragged Bloody Heroes; Author - P Brune.
42nd Infantry Battalion - The Story of .......; Author - Cpl S E Benson. 1952.
49th Infantry Batalion - Always Faithful; Author - F Cranston.
58th/59th Infantry Battalion - Militia Battalion at War; Author - Unknown.
55th/53rd Infantry Battalion - That Mob! Author - F M Budden. 1973.
57th/60th Infantry Battalion -
Hold Hard, Cobbers; A History of the 57th and 60th Battalions Vol 1; (1912-1990) Author - Robin CORFIELD.
58th/59th Infantry Battalion - The History of .....; Author - R Matthews.
61 Infantry Battalion (Queensland Cameron Highlanders) - The History of ......; Author - Jim Watt.

2/1 Field Regiment - Six Years in Support; Author - Unknown.
2/2 Field Regiment - Action Front, The History of .....; Author - W Cremor.
2/3 Field Regiment - Thunder of the Guns; Author L. Bishop.
2/4 Field Regiment - The Story of ......; Author - Unknown.
2/5 Field Regiment - Guns and Gunners ; Author - Unknown.
2/6 Field Regiment - The 25 Pounders - From Egypt to Borneo; Author - John Warby.
2/7 Field Regiment - A History of .....; Author - Unknown. ALSO
2/7 Field Regiment -
Passed by the Censor; Author - Major John W. Calder.                              
2/10 Field Regiment - Mates and Memories - Author - Robert Goodwin.
2/12 Field Regiment - Gunfire; Author - Unknown.
2/15 Field Regiment - Gunners in the Jungle; Author - Whitlocke. 1983.
2/3 Anti-Tank Regiment - On Target; Author - C J E Ray.
1st Mountain Battery RAA - As It Seems to Us; Author - Unknown.

7 Division Engineers - Sappers of the Silent Seventh; Author - Lindsay J. Peck MBE.

1 Australian Pack Transport Company - Horsemen of Kokoda; Author - Unknown.

 

 

 
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