Gladman, Charles Frederick 'Charlie' (Sergeant, b.1893 - d.1917)

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Accession Number PR03633
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement Extent: 2 cm; Wallet/s: 1
Object type Diary, Letter, Document, Postcard, Serial, Souvenir
Maker Gladman, Charles Frederick
Various
Place made Australia, Belgium, Egypt, France
Date made 1914-1918
Access Open
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Collection relating to the First World War service of 3111 Sergeant Charles Frederick 'Charlie' Gladman, 8th Infantry Battalion, France and Belgium. Collection primarily consists of two diaries. The first diary contains only one page of diary notes for August 1917 with the rest of the diary made up of lecture notes mainly on gas, lists of men, and a record of letters received from friends and family. With the diary is a leather wallet in very poor condition. The second diary is written on loose pages, which may have been posted home in installments. This diary commences on 1 January 1916 with his arrival in Suez, and covers: visiting the local sights, marches and drills, catching up with friends from home, and the move to a new camp. March recounts landing in France, being in trenches at Fleurbaix for all of May, and moving out of the trenches in June – describing rations and looking after gas masks. July sees him on the move but all was fairly quiet until end of month. August see him move to Sausage Valley where he was slightly wounded and sent to a convalescent camp. September sees him back with battalion, on the move to Belgium, but all is mainly quiet. October sees him moving around. November and December, see more movement and some rest time. January and February 1917 covers: some training, moving back to France, some bombardments, time back in the trenches. March is quiet. April and May see him in the trenches again. There is nothing recorded for June, he is on leave in England in July. There are no more entries after July, he was killed in action in September 1917.

In the collection are also six letters written by his sisters and brother with news from home; a few empty envelopes – some marked ‘returned to sender’ and ‘deceased’; postcards sent home from Chester while on leave in England; some unused German ‘Feldpostcarte’ (field postcards); a few news clippings; and a copy of an In Memoriam program for a service held in Melbourne on 17 November 1918.

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