Miscellaneous Documents

Lot 4961    Session 17 (11.30am Friday 23rd November)    Miscellaneous Documents

Estimate $50
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $100

FRANK CLUNE BOOKS, The Forlorn Hope, 1945, 31pp with card cover, signed by the author 'to Elma O'Sullivan'; Starlight, 1945, 28pp with card cover, signed by the author 'To Elma O'Sullivan with Kind regards Easter 1961'; The Greatest Liar on Earth, 1945, 23pp, card cover, signed by the author; Meccano Magazine Vol XLI No.7-12, July - December 1956 stored in a binder (6 issues); Dr Max Herz Surgeon by Joan Clarke, 1976, 188pp with b&w photos, hard cover with dust jacket, with personalised message at front fly page. All items with age toning and some tears or repairs, otherwise very good and some really interesting and nostalgic reading material. (10)

Together with newspaper articles on the German born, naturalised Australian Dr Max Herz, an acclaimed orthopaedic surgeon and his disgraceful treatment by the Sydney branch of the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Australian government when World War I broke out with Germany. He was interned at Trial Bay Jail north of Kempsey and later at Liverpool Camp and when war ended the BMA requested that he be deported which delayed his release from the internment camp until eighteen months after the Armistice had been signed. After his release he set up his own hospital at Rushcutter's Bay in Sydney and never rejoined the BMA.