Deceased estate First World War publications
The above extraordinary 1916 publication ,170pp , minus covers , foxed , well illustrated with photographs and cartoons, was put together in a dug-out overlooking Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, in the closing weeks of l915.
It was meant to have been a New Year Magazine for the troops, but was delayed by the evacuation . The missing cover was as follows .
It contains lighthearted classified advertisements , some full page , a farcical one for the German munitions manufacturer, KRUPP.
The magazine bears the trade imprint of the Townsville booksellers and newsagents T. W. Willmett and Sons Limited.
The above volume, 128pp plus covers , is mainly pictorial , has many drawings and some cartoons. A full page cartoon shows a Scottish soldier and an Australian in freezing conditions on the battlefield . The Scot asks the Aussie - " Frozen Bill "- what he is going to do after the war .The reply : Spend two years in Central Australia thawing out .
