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Reference number |
Name |
Description |
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HH Moule |
Letter from Trooper HH Moule, 3rd Light Horse, Palestine, to Miss Fenton, with thanks for Comforts Fund gifts 1917 |
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| D 4975
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Arthur Sydney Hutton |
Diary by A.S. Hutton, signaller, No 10 H.Q. Staff, 3rd Light Horse Regiment AIF, describing his experiences in Egypt, the fighting around Quinn's Post, and the illnesses contracted in the field, requiring transfer to Alexandrina and Lemnos 1915 |
| D 5895
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A Jamieson Meikle |
Letter written to F.B. Puckridge of Port Lincoln from Gallipoli while serving with the Medical Unit at Anzac Cove 1915 |
| D 6529
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AF Walker |
Diary written en route from Port Adelaide to Gallipoli on the Botanist by a member of the 5th Regiment, 3rd Lighthorse 1915 |
| D 6544
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Lloyd Chenoweth |
Diary by a member of the 1st Anzac Cycle Battalion 1916-19 |
| D 6867
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Harold Ernest Johnson |
Reminiscences by a member of the 50th Battalion in France and Belgium 1914-19 |
| D 7167
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James W Mundy |
Diary of Private Mundy D. Company 16th Battalion 4th Brigade Egypt 1916-18 |
| D 7720
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Jack Jensen |
Letter describing his stay in Cairo and the Cairo riots, and his part in the Gallipoli campaign when he landed on 25 April 1915, his wounding and his time in England during his convalescence 1915 |
| D 7992
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Claude James Garfield Symonds |
Diary kept by Private Symonds while serving as a stretcher bearer in the 8th Field Ambulance Corps in Egypt and France, after leaving Melbourne on 10 November 1915 on HMAT Ascanius. He also spent time recuperating in England after being injured 1916-17 |
| D 8540 |
Henry Francis Leader |
Account of journey from Adelaide to Goolwa on the Cobb and Company coach via Noarlunga (Horseshoe Bend), Willunga and Port Elliot in April 1867 |
| D 8719 |
Thomas Chappell |
Diary kept by Private Chappell while serving in the Middle East, describing (often critically) the trip from Australia to Port Suez, his initial training in the desert, and subsequent activities under combat conditions 1917-19 |
| PRG 8/1
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Rev Samuel Forsyth |
Journal of his voyage from Ireland to Australia and experiences as a chaplain on the troopship Marathon 1916 |
| PRG 18/17 |
Sir Ross Smith |
56 detailed letters by flying ace Ross Smith to his mother from Port Said, London, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Aboukir, Baghdad and India 1914-20 |
| PRG 18/19 | Sir Ross Smith | Diary with good detail by Ross Smith of No.1 Squadron, A.F.C. 1916-18 |
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Len Hussey |
Letters from driver Hussey in the 50th Battalion describing his training at Morphettville Army Camp, activities while on active service on the Western Front, in Egypt, and convalescence in hospital in England 1915-18 |
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Various writers |
Letters advising of the death of Howard George Dodd while on active service at Gallipoli 1916 |
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Lance Lewis and family |
Letters describing Lewis's service in Egypt and Gallipoli, and his convalescence in England 1915-17 |
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Thomas Gilbert |
Letters numbering 150 written to his parents and other family members chiefly from India where he was a civil servant, including periods as a cavalry officer and a member of the Royal Flying Corps on active service 1913-25 |
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Victor Voules Brown |
Letters by Brown, member of the 48th Battalion 1916-18 |
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Louis Willyama Avery |
Diary with entertaining and interesting detail kept by a member of the 3rd Field Company Engineers, 1st Division AIF. Avery served on the Suez Canal defence, was part of the Anzac landing on 25 April 1915, was in France on the Somme and at Ypres, attended officer training in England 1917, and returned in 1918 to France 1914-18 |
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Irene Bonnin |
Letters written by nurse Bonnin from Egypt where she was stationed for some 9 months, subsequently transferring to northern France in conjunction with the 1st Australian General Hospital’s evacuation from Heliopolis via Alexandria to depart ex H.M. Hospital Ship ‘Salta’ 1915-16 |
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Irene Bonnin |
Two diaries kept by nurse Bonnin kept on board the S.S. Wandilla and in Egypt, and in England 1915-18 |
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Malcolm Cornelius Bonnar |
Diary kept by a Signals Sapper in the 2nd Division from 1915-19 |
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James Churchill-Smith |
Five diaries kept by Captain (later Major) Churchill-Smith during his service in the AIF in Gallipoli and in the 50th Battalion in France and in England 1915-19 |
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Arthur Oxer |
Diary of a member of the 16th Battalion, who was part of the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915 and was killed there in August 1915 |
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William Keneally |
Official letters of appreciation to the 'young, strong, lively and jaunty Australian troops' from the citizens of Dinant and Anserne, Belgium 1919 |
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Frederick Albury |
Diary kept while serving as a driver with the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Forces in France and while on leave in England 1917-18 |
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Lieutenant Harry Thomson |
Diary kept with 50th Battalion after arrival in France at Fricourt and into the front line near Bernafay Wood, Flers, and the battalion's first major engagement at Mouquet Farm, Pozieres, 11 January to 15 November 1916 |
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Frederick Leopold Terrell |
Five diaries kept in Adelaide, Gallipoli, France, Belgium and England 1914-18 |
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Walter Allison |
Letters to and from WH Allison of the 5th Australian Pioneer Battalion 1916-19 |
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Walter Allison |
Reminiscences: including some relating to WW1 on pages 6-8 and 17-20 |
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Arthur Bruce Durdin |
Letters written from France, Belgium and London on active service 1916-19 |
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Edmund George Oswald |
Letters from a member of D Company of the 27th Battalion of the AIF, from Egypt, Gallipoli, No. 3 Auxiliary Hospital in Heliopolis, Western Front in France and Belgium, on leave in London 1915-21 |
The Advertiser Newspaper
6 October 1915 page 10.
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