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16 Results

  1. Auto Diary of Charles Malcolm Smith, 1916-1918

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Smith, Charles Malcolm

    Typed transcription of the shorthand diary relating to the First World War service of 6682 Private Charles Malcolm Smith, 25th Battalion. This diary was made by Smith after the war from his originals....

    AWM2018.19.89

  2. Diary of Gerard Henderson Cowan, January - April 1917

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Cowan, Gerard Henderson

    Diary relating to the First World War service of 6733 Private Gerard Henderson Cowan, 11 Australian Infantry Battalion. This diary, written by Cowan between 12 January and 26 April 1917, contains det...

    AWM2019.22.256

  3. Diary of James McConnell, 1917-1919

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: McConnell, James

    Collection relating to the First World War service of 693 Private James McConnell, 57 Infantry Battalion and 5 Machine Gun Battalion, Australia, Sierra Leone, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, at sea, ...

    AWM2020.22.33

  4. Diary of John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 1915-1916

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Turnbull, John Henry Llewellyn

    Diary relating to the First World War service of 1433 Private John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 8th Battalion. This is the second of six detailed diaries transcribed by Turnbull after the war and documen...

    RCDIG0001107

  5. Diary of Oberlin Herbert Gray, April 1916 to June 1917

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Gray, Oberlin Herbert

    Diary relating to the First World War service of 2552 Private Oberlin Herbert Gray, 3rd Australian Field Ambulance. Herbert Oberlin Gray and his brother Frederic chose to join the medical corps, as th...

    AWM2018.785.53

  6. Letters from David Gerald Evans to his family, 1916

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Evans, David Gerald

    File of letters relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant David Gerald Evans, 8th Infantry Battalion. Known as Gerald at home, these letters written between January and December 1916 menti...

    AWM2018.785.61

  7. Letters from Ernest Oswald Collett to his family, 1916-1917

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Collett, Ernest Oswald

    Letters relating to the First World War service of 19618 Bombardier Ernest Oswald Collett, 29th Battery, 8th Australian Field Artillery Brigade. The letters begin by describing life in camp at Larkhil...

    RCDIG0001548

  8. Letters from William Edward Peach to his family, 1916

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Peach, William Edward

    Letters relating to the First World War service of 4272 Lance Corporal William Edward Peach, 7th Battalion. These letters were written by Peach to his family between 2 January and 17 December 1916. I...

    RCDIG0001564

  9. Letters from William James Gunn Murray to his family, 1916

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Murray, William James Gunn

    Letters relating to the First World War service of 5147 Private William James Gunn Murray, 58th Battalion. In these letters to his family, Murray details the voyage from Australia to Egypt and the tra...

    RCDIG0001369

  10. Letters of Gerard Henderson Cowan, 1916-1917

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Cowan, Gerard Henderson

    Letters relating to the First World War service of 6733 Private Gerard Henderson Cowan, 11 Australian Infantry Battalion. In his letters to his family written between 1916 and 1917, Cowan describes ...

    AWM2019.22.250

  11. Letters relating to Cecil Charles Harpur Baldwin, 1916-1918

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Baldwin, Cecil Charles Harpur Birdwood, William Riddell

    Letters relating to the First World War service of 3019 Sergeant Cecil Charles Harpur Baldwin, 3rd Infantry Battalion. In a series of letters to his mother, Baldwin details his experiences whilst serv...

    RCDIG0000912

  12. Manuscript by Harold Sutton Shapcott, 1934

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Shapcott, Harold Sutton

    Manuscript relating to the First World War service of 1288 Private Harold Sutton Shapcott, 42nd Infantry Battalion, 1934. This typescript novel by Harold Sutton Shapcott titled 'War Babies' is based ...

    AWM2018.19.27

  13. Memoir of Richard Roberts, 1914-1918

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Roberts, Richard

    Memoir relating to the First World War service of 773 Private Richard Roberts, 3rd Battalion. In this memoir of his service compiled in 1935, Roberts documents the period from his enlistment and embar...

    RCDIG0001570

  14. Typescript memoir of Robert Richards, 1914-1918

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Roberts, Richard

    Memoir relating to the First World War service of 773 Private Richard Roberts, 3rd Battalion. This typescript copy of Roberts’ original memoir was created by his daughter in 1993. The original memoir,...

    RCDIG0001571

  15. Wallet 1 of 1 - Extracts from letters of Private Robert Mactier VC, 1917-1918

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Mactier, Robert

    Collection relating to the First World War service of 6939 Private Robert Mactier, VC, England, Belgium, and France, 1917-1918, 23 Battalion. Wallet 1 of 1 - Extracts from letters relating to the Fir...

    AWM2020.22.107

  16. Wallet 1 of 1 - Letters from Colin Stewart Cameron to George Broomfield, 1943

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Cameron, Colin Stewart

    Letters relating to the Second World War service of 422410 Flight Sergeant Colin Stewart Cameron, No. 10 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, April - August 1943. This file is comprised of four lett...

    AWM2018.785.93

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