McDowell, George Stanley (Lieutenant, d.1972), MC

Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant George Stanley McDowell, 13th Australian Infantry Battalion. Letters to his family describe training in Australia and Egypt; active service at Gallipoli and later France; and leave in the United Kingdom. McDowell writes about trench warfare (particularly as O.C. of a bombing platoon), attacks, artillery bombardments, mud, and his friendship with Colonel Harry Murray (VC). His growing maturity and increasing disenchantment with war are evident. The collection also includes a photograph and congratulatory letter from General Birdwood upon McDowell's award of the Military Cross (MC).

A later addition to the collection includes an "Introduction to Letters of Lt G S McDowell" and a typescript of the letters by McDowell's daughter, Winsome Paul.