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Accession Number | RCDIG0000069 |
Collection number | 3DRL/3376 9/3h |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 18 |
Object type | Papers |
Physical description | 23 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Various |
Date made | 1919-1950 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
Telegrams and letters sent or received by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, 1919-1950
Birdwood, Lord William Riddell (Field Marshal, b.1865 - d.1951)
- Series 9: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1903 – 1950
< Previous Record | Next Record >This folder contains 17 telegrams and letters received by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood between 15 January 1919 and 18 April 1950. The subjects covered include Birdwood’s visit to Australia in 1920, Christmas and New Year greetings, invitations, promotions, and Anzac Day.
This file contains:
Telegram from Grand Marechal Comte De Merode to Birdwood, 9 January 1919 [written in French]
Telegram from Birdwood to William Morris Hughes, 15 January 1919
Telegram from Old Cliftonians to Birdwood, 15 January 1919
Telegram from [Australian soldiers on] HMAT Medic to Birdwood, 14 April 1919
Telegrams to Birdwood from Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson, Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, William Morris Hughes, Colonel Sir James Allen, William Ferguson Massey, and Sir Henry Galway, 17-25 December 1919.
Telegram from Trumble to Birdwood, 13 April 1920 [includes reply from Birdwood to Troopers, 14 April 1920]
Telegram from Troopers to Birdwood, 4 May 1920
Telegram from Irving to Birdwood, 19 May 1920
Telegram from Andrew Fisher to Birdwood, 8 September 1920
Telegram from George Lloyd to Birdwood, 17 October 1920
Telegram from Senator George Foster Pearce to Birdwood, 24 December 1920
Telegram from Alexandra of Denmark to Birdwood, 26 June 1924 [Used with the permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II]
Letter from Edward Frederick Lindley Wood to Sir John Lawrence Baird Stonehaven, 16 June 1926
Telegram from George Holland to Birdwood, 4 August 1937
Letter from Major E S Harston to Birdwood, 18 April 1950 [includes telegram from Kippenberger to Birdwood, 17 April 1950]