John Stanton Davis Mellick Archive

Photographs date from Mellick's time as a cadet in 1937, training at Enoggera, 1939; Lytton Camp, 1940; Royal Military College, Duntroon; Milne Bay, 1943.

Many images are captioned.

Photographs of: Salamau 1942; Milne Bay 1943; Toowoomba, Mareeba, Brisbane, 1944; Lae, 1944; Japanese surrender, Morotai 1945.

Many images are captioned.

Folder 1 Certificates

• Commission for Lieutenant, Commonwealth Military Forces (CMF), 1939
• Certificate of Service, CMF & Australian Military Forces (AMF) 1940-1945
• Mentioned in Despatches, 1947
• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Queensland, 1978
• 50th Anniversary of the Victory in the Pacific, 1945-1995
• Award of the Medal of the Order of Australia, 2005

Folder 2 Photographs

• Group, Officers Mess, Signals, non commission officers, 1940 (image is captioned)
• Major Mellick, studio portrait, signed, 3 March 1940
• Major Mellick, undated in military uniform
• Major Mellick, 1939-1945
• Group, Officers and Staff, HQ 5th Division, 1945
• Dr Mellick in graduation gown, c1978
• Lieut. Colonel Mellick, 4th Signal Regiment with memorial plaque

Military insignia mounted on A3 sized board:

• Shoulder patch, HQ, 1st Australian Army
• Shoulder patch, HQ, 5th Australian Division
• Shoulder patch, Signals, 5th Australian Division
• Overseas service stripes
• Lapel insignia, AIF

• Routine order, 1 January 1942 
• Report of Patrol by No.3 Section, Milne Bay, 3 March 1943 
• Map Gili Gili of Milne Bay area, New Guinea, 1943
• Japanese occupation invasion currency

• Guinea Gold newsletters, 10 January 1945; 8 May 1945; 9 May 1945; 29 June 1945; 15 August 1945; 16 August 1945; 17 August 1945
• The Courier Mail, 4 September 1939; 8 May 1945
• The Telegraph,  8 May 1945

• Army Driving Licence
• Australian Soldiers Pocket Books
• Record of service book
• Booklets regarding life in the army
  • Return to Civil Life handbook
  • Physical Training Without Apparatus handbook
  • Customs of the Army
• Salt 22 October 1945
• Soldiers paybooks
• Extract re 'Mentioned in Despatches'

• Travel authority
• Certificate of service 
• Documents of discharge
• Several letters sent to Mellick while serving overseas
• Cartoons clipped from magazines and newspapers 
• Poems and song lyrics

Selected content available online

Documents, orders and instructions relating to the surrender of Japanese forces, New Guinea, September 1945.

Includes two maps of Ocean Island, and one of Nauru, 1945

• List of items to be carried by fire watchers
• Identity card in the name of Lucretia Katts
• Civil defence instructions
• 'The Australian Red Cross' December 1939
• Notes relating to defence installations in Queensland during the Second World War

• Aerial photographs of Lae and Buna areas, New Guinea
• Maps of Salamaua and surrounds
• Message of congratulations re the capture of Salamaua

Commemorative issues and articles relating to major events during the Second World War.

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs relating to members of HQ 5th Division Association.

Correspondence, papers relating the Mellick's association with the 4th Signal Regiment

Correspondence, papers relating the Mellick's association with the Royal Australian Signal Corps

Correspondence, papers and commemorative items relating to memorial plaques:

• Pacific Islands Regiment
• Royal Australian Corps of Signals
• Australian Women's Army Service
• 5th Australian Division Signals, Townsville
• Rocky Creek War Memorial Park, Tolga

Notes, articles, correspondence and photographs relating the late Lieutentant-General Sir Thomas Joseph Daly KBE, CB, DSO (1913-2004) who served with Mellick in New Guinea during the Second World War.

Inventory created by Mellick detailing many but not all documents in the collection that relate to his military service.

Correspondence relating to the proposed donation of material to the Australian War Memorial by Mellick

Copy of plan of operations devised by staff of HQ First Army, for the capture of Rabaul; principally prepared by Mellick in conjunction with Lieutenant Colonel K. Shave, it does not include the original maps.

• Wartime shaving mirror
• Identity disc and chain for Jack Mellick #1768, Australian Flying Corps

• Leighterton Airfield, England
• No.4 Squadron Australian Flying Corps
• Mellick with fighter aircraft
• German tank, Villers Bretonneux

• 1 November 1917, to his mother
• 20 December 1917, to his sister Ivy
• Xmas New Years 1918-19 greetings

• Program, Anzac Day 1919, Rouelles, France
• Menu, Leighterton Transport dinner, 1919
• Beltana Bugle, shipboard publication issued as a memento of the voyage of HMAT A72 June-July 1917

Biographical notes relating to several men who served during the First World War

• Kenneth Murray #3339, 38th Infantry Battalion
• Leon Maxwell Gellert (1892-1977) #392, 10th Infantry Battalion
• Stanley Charles McPhee #3741, 57th Infantry Battalion

Links to their service records, National Archives of Australia

Certificates of achievement and education; examination results; souvenir booklets

• Central Technical College
• Queensland University of Technology
• St John Ambulance Association
• University of Queensland

Includes 'Dutton Park State School centenary 1884-1984' which Mellick attended 1925 to 1932

Correspondence relating to Mellick's academic appointments and achievements from:

• Buranda State School (Boys)
• Brisbane Grammar School
• Royal Military College, Duntroon
• Association of Accountants of Australia
• University of Queensland

Includes several versions of his 'curriculum vitae' detailing his academic and military career.

Papers, correspondence and publications collated by Mellick which relate to his association with Alderley Presbyterian Church (1956-1976)

Papers, correspondence and publications collated by Mellick which relate to his association with Ann Street Presbyterian Church, 1988

Papers, correspondence and publications collated by Mellick which relate to his association with the Centre for Pacific Studies, (1996-2002).

Papers, correspondence and publications collated by Mellick which relate to his association with Marist College, Ashgrove. Here
Mellick donated a plaque to commemorate the use of one of the school buildings by Headquarters 5th Australian Division, during the Second World War (1992-1997).

Papers, correspondence, publications and certificates collated by Mellick which relate to his association with the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Queensland branch (1946-2005).

Mellick first qualified as a pharmacist in 1949; operated and managed 'Mellick's Pharmacy, Samford Road, Enoggera as well as Winstanley Street, Carina with his brother Oliver; was made a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, and Life Member.

Includes small album of mounted photographs taken during the award-ceremony when Mellick was made a Fellow, 24 April 2001.

Papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings and minutes collated by Mellick which relate to his association with the Presbyterian Church of Australia (1966-1997)

Papers, correspondence and publications collated by Mellick which relate to his association with St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, where he served on the Board of Governors (1964-2014).

Papers, correspondence, newsletters and programs collated by Mellick which relate to his association with St Paul's Presbyterian Church, Brisbane (1959-2015).

Mellick served as Chairman of the Restoration Task Force, St Paul’s Presbyterian Church from 1982 to 1999

Includes:

• Annual reports. Restoration Trust, 1987-1995
• 'Koinonia' quarterly newsletters, December 2002, March 2005, March 2011
• Order of service 'Gallipoli 1915 remembrance'

Papers, correspondence, and newspaper clippings collated by Mellick which relate to his association with the University of Queensland (1959-2010)

• Member, Board of Studies in Pharmacy, 1959-1962
• Lecturer, English & Australian literature at the university, from 1968 retiring as a senior lecturer in 1985
• Member, the Chairman, Grace College Council, 1981-1983

Papers, correspondence, cards, letters of appreciation, orders of service.

Photographs, correspondence and memorabilia relating to the awarding of the Medal of the Order of Australia to Mellick, 14 April 2005.

Speeches, readings, notes and correspondence

• The English Association of Queensland, 1975
• Liberal Party Health Seminar, 1976
• Brisbane Grammar School Old Boys Association, 1976
• National Trust of Queensland, 1977

Speeches, readings, notes and correspondence

• National Convention of Private Hospitals, 1978
• Pharmaceutical Society of Queensland, 1978
• Anzac Day Address, 1979
• Remembrance Day, 1979
• St Francis Theological College, 1983
• Remembrance Day, 1983
• Private Hospital and Nursing Homes Assoc.1985
• St Paul's Presbyterian Church, 1986
• Emmanuel College, 1987
• Pine Rivers High School, 1987
• Society of Women Writers, Queensland, 1987
• Grace College, 1987
• Education Department, Qld, seminar, 1987

Speeches, readings, notes and correspondence

• Expo '88, Pavillion de La France, 1988
• St Paul's Presbyterian Church, Ann Street, 1988, 1993, 1994
• King's College, 1990
• Royal Australian Signals Association, 1990
• Grace College, 1992

Speeches, readings, notes and correspondence

• St Paul's Presbyterian Church, 1997, 1997, 2002, 2011
• St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, 1999
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, 2001
• Margaret McPhee Tribute, 2002
• Friends of Fryer Library, nd

Newspaper cuttings, correspondence, commenting on works authored by Mellick.

Correspondence relating to, and bound copy of 'A man called Rollie', a biography of Rolland Arthur Busch, to which Mellick contributed.

Speech notes, correspondence relating to Mellick's work 'Writers' footprints' published in 2010

Photographs, advertisements, newspaper clippings, reviews, correspondence relating to Mellick's work 'The Passing Guest: a life of Henry Kingsley'

Mellick was awarded a doctorate in 1978 based on his thesis entitled 'Henry Kingsley: a biography' which was subsequently published by University of Queensland Press, 1983

Articles, papers, and issues of published material containing items authored by Mellick; including papers submitted for his B.A. (Hons) degree at the University of Queensland.

Publications containing items by or about Mellick.

• Annual report. Brisbane Grammar School, 1934, 1935
• Shoulder to shoulder, 1966
• The Makar, August 1967
• Brisbane Grammar School magazine, December 1986
• Pictorial history of wartime Mareeba, 1995
• Grammar news, 1998, 2005
• Australian pharmacist, 2005
• The Tattler, Tattersall's Club Brisbane, 2005
• Alumni news, University of Queensland, 2005
• Club news, United Services Club, 2008
• Newsletter, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, 2005