Souvenir Booklet "Billjim at Sea" - AIF Transports,1918

Overview

"A Memento of the Ever-changing Life on Board a Modern Transport journeying from the Southern Cross with Troops for the help of the Motherland" . Soft cover booklet - cover plus 32 pages. 33 individual contributions, text and illustrations. Anthromorphic Koala wearing flannel shirt, shorts, boots and puttees waving slouch hat, [Caps, Fur Felt], while hanging from ship's rigging. Seascape with lighthouse on small island in background. Tittled "Billjim" at Sea.

Historical information

Billjim was World War 1 Australian slang for a typical soldier, particularly a Light Horseman https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Billjim

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Registration number
cwa-org-32-99-085
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Width
22 cm
Height or length
29 cm
Inscriptions and markings

Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd, 4-8 Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, London WC1. Edited by Trooper P.C. de Crespigny. Published under the authority of Colonel Dean, VD, Officer Commanding the Troops.

Australian Army Museum of Western Australia

Australian Army Museum of Western Australia

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