Garden, Charles Douglas (Sergeant, b.1894 - d.?)

Accession Number PR04616
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1 wallet: 1 cm.
Object type Diary, Letter, Document
Maker Garden, Charles Douglas
Place made Australia, Egypt, Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Date made 1914-1921
Access Open
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.
Description

Collection relating to the First World War service of 378 Sergeant Charles Douglas Garden, 8th and 3rd Light Horse Regiments. Collections consists and three original handwritten diaries covering 1915 and 1918; plus a typed transcript the two 1915 diaries. Also included is a soldier's pay book and related correspondence; a letter from the King (and envelope); a statement of account; a 1915 letter to his mother; a single page diary entry from 1915; and assorted scraps of paper that appear to have been letter.