A Great War Australian Scrapbook.
A highly interesting small format scrap album measuring 12cm by 11cm, maroon leather cover with gilt text ‘Album’ to the exterior. The album contains 42 double pages of varied interest. The album belonged to a member of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance, containing cigarette cards, many very attractive hand-coloured drawings, some very nice poems, many relating to England and some relating to Australia, transportation tickets from Australia to England, signatures of fellow members of the hospital unit, some interesting small black and white drawings. At the rear of the album is a photograph of the visit of the Queen to the Western Front in July 1917; together with two modern cloth bandsman’s badges, for the Scots Guards and the Irish Guards, overall reasonable condition (3) £60-£80