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A comparison of facts : BB rheumatic pills
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Source : Dodd family, PRG 244/13/16
Date of creation : ca. 1915
Format : Ephemera
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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Pamphlet advertising BB rheumatic pills, published by BB Pill Co., 102 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. It firstly compares BB pills with 'the brave boys at the front' and 'our gallant lads in blue' as being responsible for defending against enemies, in the case of BB pills, 'from invasion by malign germs'. The pamphlet then describes the benefits of taking BB pills, and gives testimonials from satisfied customers.


Subjects
Period : 1914-1918
Further reading :

Bean, C. E. W. Gallipoli mission, Sydney : ABC Enterprises in association with the Australian War Memorial for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1990

Carlyon, Les. The great war, Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2006

Gammage, Bill. The broken years : Australian soldiers in the Great War, Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books, 1990

Kent, David. From trench and troopship : the experience of the Australian Imperial Force, 1914-1919, Alexandria, N.S.W. : Hale & Iremonger , 1999

Luckins, Tanja. The gates of memory : Australian people's experiences and memories of loss in the Great War, Fremantle, W.A. : Curtin University Books, 2004

Macdougall, Anthony. Australians at war : a pictorial history, Nobel Park, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2002

McKernan, Michael. The Australian people and the Great War, West Melbourne : Nelson, 1980

Robertson, John. Anzac and Empire : the tragedy & glory of Gallipoli, [Richmond, Vic.] : Hamlyn Australia, 1990

State Library of South Australia. Conscription and enlistment, [Adelaide]: State Library of South Australia, 1997

Internet links :

AIF Database: Australian Anzacs in the Great War 1914-1918 [Australian Defence Force Academy]

Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: World War 1

Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs]

Australian War Memorial See: Australians at War: Australian Military History Overview: First World War 1914-1918

Australian Army History Unit [Department of Defence]: See: History in focus [several sections about World War One]

Official history of Australia in the war of 1914-1918 [Australian War Memorial]

RSL Virtual War Memorial

Victorians at War - Oral History project [Department of Veterans' Affairs and State Library of Victoria]

World War I and its Aftermath 1914 - 1921 [New South Wales High School Certificate (HSC) online]


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