Adams, Ralph Harley (Sergeant, b.? - d.1917)

Places	Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Pozieres Area, Pozieres Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Accession Number	1DRL/0007
Collection type	Private Record
Record type	Collection
Measurement	2 wallets: 2 cm
Object type	Papers
Maker	Adams, Ralph Harley
Place made	Australia: Victoria, Seymour, Egypt: Cairo, France, France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Pozieres Area, Pozieres, Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Date made	1915-1917
Access	Open
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain
Copying Provisions	Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.

Description

Collection (typescripts and photocopies) relating to service of Sergeant Ralph Harley Adams MM, 8 Battalion in Seymour, VIC; Gallipoli, and France. Diary extracts and letters detail trench life including difficulties encountered. Included in the collection is a photocopy of the ANZAC bulletin [publication] for 23 August 1916 describing the action at Pozieres. Photocopies made 1927. Location of originals unknown.

History / Summary

Biographical note: 2207 Sergeant Ralph Harley Adams, MM, 8 Battalion, AIF. Killed in action, Ypres sector, 4 Oct 1917. Age 25. Son of Ralph Alexander and Janet Adams of 'The Retreat', Miles, Queensland.