The Wardmaster

According to the book, 'The Veritas Library employs Returned Soldiers who, owing to disablements and other causes, are unable to follow their pre-war occupations. Every returned soldier or other salesman who has authority to sell this book, carries a letter of declaration from the Publishers, constituting their authority to sell.

Thomas was a 'lineman' possibly later known as a 'linesman' when he enlisted at Melbourne on 24 July He served in the 21st Battalion. According to the donor he was pictured on a recruiting poster before he went overseas. Thomas was wounded in the nose and arm on the Western Front on 9 October , and on receiving medical treatment it was noted he had been suffering from trench fever for nearly a month.

He was repatriated to Australia in February After the War he divided his time between a shack in Ballarat where he worked his own gold mine and his home in Bokhara Road, Caulfield where his family lived. He found gold over the years but spent most of it, including one occasion when he went to Melbourne on a spending spree and came home with only a white satin waistcoat. He also variously worked as a mechanic and postal employee over the years. He died of a seizure on Anzac Day, , at the age of Cover title printed in black with simple motif of black rectangle.

Front cover detached and very creased and torn at spine; back cover missing. Pages are yellowed and have rounded corners; foxing throughout. Two rusted staples bind the book. This book is typical of many published in the years immediately after World War I, to be sold by disabled soldiers for fund-raising or to assist soldiers and their families in post-war life. The book claims to contain formulas 'costing thousands of pounds', and helpfully suggests how some recipes might be changed if they are to be sold, acknowledging that some former soldiers may need to rely on their own enterprise.

The book was apparently written by Wardmaster T. Holmes soon after World War I. The Disabled Men's Association of Australia, established in , ostensibly supported disabled men, whatever the cause of their disability. Blamey as well as civilians. However, some sources claim that the Association refused to support disabled ex-soldiers since they had been given a 'certain glamour' that the incapacitated civilian lacked, and therefore already had an advantage.

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Do they not breathe the same air, buy in the same markets, have the same rents to pay? Many have met with their incapacity since marriage. Have they not homes and children to provide for? Is not theirs a greater need? A veteran with a 'crook leg' complained against the favouritism shown to the limbless. The date does not appear on Museum Victoria's copy.

Atlas Press , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia , circa The publisher is identified by the State Library of Victoria's catalogue of an apparently identical publication. The name does not appear on Museum Victoria's copy.

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He served in the 21st Battalion. According to the donor he was pictured on a recruiting poster before he went overseas. Thomas was wounded in the nose and arm on the Western Front on 9 October , and on receiving medical treatment it was noted he had been suffering from trench fever for nearly a month.

He was repatriated to Australia in February After the War he divided his time between a shack in Ballarat where he worked his own gold mine and his home in Bokhara Road, Caulfield where his family lived. He found gold over the years but spent most of it, including one occasion when he went to Melbourne on a spending spree and came home with only a white satin waistcoat.

He also variously worked as a mechanic and postal employee over the years. He died of a seizure on Anzac Day, , at the age of Cover title printed in black with simple motif of black rectangle. Front cover detached and very creased and torn at spine; back cover missing. Pages are yellowed and have rounded corners; foxing throughout.

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