BOOKS
2/17 Battalion History Committee (Australia), ‘What We Have . . . We Hold!’: A history of the 2/17 Australian Infantry Battalion 1940–1945, Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, NSW, 1998
Barber, T. (ed.), Mascot 1888–1938: Fifty years of progress, Harbour Press, Sydney, 1938
Barter, Margaret, Far Above Battle: The experience and memory of Australian soldiers in war 1939–1945, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1994
Bolt, Andrew (ed.), Our Home Front 1939–1945, Wilkinson Books, Melbourne, 1995
Coates, John Boyd (ed.), Internal Medicine in World War II: Volume 2, Infectious Diseases, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C.
Connell, Daniel, The War at Home: Australia 1939–1949, ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Crows Nest, NSW, 1988
Connor, John, ‘The “superior”, all-volunteer AIF’, in Craig Stockings (ed.), Anzac’s Dirty Dozen: 12 myths of Australian military history, New South Publishing, Sydney, 2012, pp. 35–50
Eames, Jim, Sydney Airport: 80 years as the gateway to Australia, Focus Publishing, Edgecliff, NSW, 2000
Fantina, Robert, Desertion and the American Soldier 1776–2005, Algora Publishing, New York, 2006
Fearnside, G.H., Half to Remember: Reminiscences of an Australian infantry soldier in World War II, Haldane Publishing, Sydney, 1975
Gall, Jennifer, From Bullocks to Boeings: An illustrated history of Sydney Airport, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1986
Glenister, Richard, Desertion Without Execution: Decisions that saved Australian Imperial Force deserters from the firing squad in World War I, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic., 1984
Griffiths-Marsh, Roland, The Sixpenny Soldier, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1990
Holmes, John, Smiles of Fortune: A memoir of the war against Japan 1943–45, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, NSW, 2001
Johnson, Mark, At the Front Line: Experiences of Australian soldiers in World War II, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, 1996
—— That Magnificent 9th: An illustrated history of the 9th Australian Division 1940–46, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2005
Jones, Peter J., The Reluctant Volunteer, Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, NSW, 1997
Klein, Tom, They Stamped His Papers Deserter, PennyRoyal Press, Parkes, NSW, 1995
Lloyd, Clem and Hall, Richard (eds), Backroom Briefings: John Curtin’s war, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1997
Murray, Mary (ed.), A Home of My Own: Handy hints and images from domestic life in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s, Mallon Publishing, Melbourne, 2001
Oram, Gerard, Military Executions During World War I, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, 2003
Phillips, W.H.J., The Home Front 1942–1945, W.H.J. Phillips, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2000
—— The Middle East Campaigns of World War II, 1940–1942: El Alamein, W.H.J. Phillips, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2000
Random House Australia, Australia Through Time, Random House, Milsons Point, NSW, 2000
Reader’s Digest Australia, Australia’s Yesterdays: The illustrated story of how we lived, worked and played, Reader’s Digest, Ultimo, NSW, 2008
Stanley, Peter, Bad Characters: Sex, crime, mutiny, murder and the Australian Imperial Force, Pier 9, Milsons Point, NSW, 2010
—— ‘Dramatic myth and dull truth: Invasion by Japan in 1942’, in Craig Stockings (ed.), Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2010, pp. 140–60
Stockings, Craig (ed.), Anzac’s Dirty Dozen: 12 myths of Australian military history, New South Publishing, Sydney, 2012
Thomas, Donald, An Underworld at War: Spivs, deserters, racketeers and civilians in the Second World War, John Murray, London, 2003
Wells, H.D., ‘B’ Company Second Seventeenth Infantry, H.D. Wells, Toowoon Bay, NSW, 1984
Wilson, Graham, Dust, Donkeys and Delusions: The myth of Simpson and his donkey exposed, Big Sky Publishing, Newport, NSW, 2012
OFFICIAL SOURCES
National Archives of Australia personal records
A471/8355969 Personal Record of NX32737 Private Alfred Herbert Currie
A471/8329399 Personal Record of NX40424 Private Alfred Frederick Clifton Drew
A471/8338606 Personal Record of NX55654 Private James Arthur Andrew Ellicombe
B883/6229524 Personal Record of VX1607 Edward Henry Emmerson
A471/8328064 Personal Record of NX17552 Private Percy Field
A471/8829505 Personal Record of NX17063 Private Leslie Milton Giles
A471/8320660 Personal Record of NX5836 Private Stanley James Glynn
A471/8320664 Personal Record of NX52651 Private James Gibb Hamilton
B883/4901034 Personal Record of NX17773 Private Alfred Henry Harrison
A471/8328232 Personal Record of NX39526 Private Lyndon Morris Harold Hurel
A471/8356029 Personal Record of NX20181 Private Stanley James Livingston
B883/5584196 Personal Record of NFX201096 Private Grace Florence Lonsdale
A471/7575928 Personal Record of NX56248 Gunner Jack Arthur Lonsdale
B883/4847385 Personal Record of NX20180 Private Roy Lonsdale
A471/8328834 Personal Record of NX19115 Private Patrick William Murrell
B883/4847388 Personal Record of NX20277 Private Gordon Grant Oxman
A471/8339795 Personal Record of NX89527 Private Mervyn Patrick Pollard
B883/4655012 Personal Record of NX76466 William Joseph Pye
A471/8338651 Personal Record of NX54916 Private Sydney Vivian Edward Quillan
A471/8370074 Personal Record of NX17246 Private Reginald Alexander Tait
B883/4901273 Personal Record of NX18306 Private John Wilson
Australian War Memorial Second World War Diaries
AWM52, Item 8/3/17
2/17 Infantry Battalion
<www.awm.gov.au/collection/records/awm52/diary.asp?levelID=1056>
Australian War Memorial Second World War Official Histories
Australia in the War of 1939–1945, various volumes