Barber, George Walter (Major General, b.? - d.1951)

Correspondence of Lieutenant Colonel George Walter Barber who served with the Australian Army Medical Corps during the First World War. The majority of the 49 letters are addressed to his wife Jess, with other correspondents including Janet Salmond and Edith Hobbs, 1913-1916. Barber writes about his service in the campaigns in Gallipoli and Egypt including time at Tel-el-Kebir, Mena Camp, Cairo and Alexandria. More personal subjects covered finances and the welfare of his four children. Barber later performed an autopsy on Baron von Richthofen, an incident recorded by the Official War Historian, Charles Bean, although not mentioned in the letters.