Photostat copy of diary for Major Frederick Harold Tubb, 1914

Tubb, Frederick Harold, VC (Major, b.1881 - d.1917)

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Places	Africa: Egypt Africa: Egypt, Suez Canal, Port Said Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows
Accession Number	RCDIG0000838
Collection number	1DRL/0584
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	File
Item count	1
Object type	Diary
Physical description	19 Image/s captured
Maker	Tubb, Frederick Harold
Place made	Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made	1927
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright.

Description

Photostat copy of a diary relating to the First World War service of Major Frederick Harold Tubb VC, 7th Battalion. This file consists of part two of a diary kept by Major Frederick Harold Tubb during 1914. In this diary, written between 3 December 1914 and 30 December 1914, Major Tubb describes disembarkation at Port Said, dealing with the horses, sightseeing around the Pyramids, a Masonic meeting and Christmas in Egypt. Also included is a photostat copy of a map showing the route from Australia to Egypt and a photstat copy of an account of the Sydney-Emden encounter. The copies were made by the War memorial in 1927.