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Accession Number | 3DRL/6371 |
Collection type | Private Record |
Record type | Collection |
Measurement | 9 items |
Object type | Papers |
Maker |
Baverstock, William Bosville |
Date made | 1919 |
Access | Open |
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM315 419/007/013 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Baverstock, William B (Private, 4th Bn AIF and North Russian Relief Force)
Collection relating to the North Russia Intervention service of Private William Bosville Baverstock, 201 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, North Russia Relief Force, Russia, Belgium, England, 1919. The collection contains letters from Private William Bosville Baverstock to his mother, Mrs AB Baverstock, England and at sea, 1919. The letters describe enlisting into the North Russia Relief Force as well as the journey to Russia. The collection also includes a mixed collection of other material relating to Baverstock's service in the North Russia Relief Force, including accounts of battles; resumes of events and operations, Vologda Force, July 2019; letter of passage; leave pass for Paris, November 1919; a letter of introduction from Oscar W Bennett, Belgium, date unknown; nominal roll of Australian section, 201 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps; Protection Certificate (Soldiers Repatriated Overseas), November 1919; handwritten list of Russian villages and a simple map; papers relating to back pay; newspaper printing of 'A Bolshevist Armoured Train Photographe from the Air', The Illustrated London News, 21 June 1919; note about Australians killed in action in Russia; permission slip to be ashore, December 1919.