Postcards from Henry Miller Lanser to his family, 1914-1916

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Accession Number AWM2018.19.20
Collection number PR00394
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 29
Object type Postcard
Physical description 58 Image/s captured
Maker Lanser, Henry Miller
Place made At sea, Australia: Western Australia, Albany, Egypt, Egypt: Alexandria, Egypt: Helouan, Egypt: North Egypt, Zeitoun, France, Greece: Aegean Islands, Lemnos, Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Date made 1914-1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

Postcards relating to the First World War service of 712 Second Lieutenant Henry Miller Lanser, 1st Australian Infantry Battalion, 2 November 1914 - 19 September 1916.

In this collection of postcards from Henry Miller Lanser to his family, the author writes about domestic matters, his arrival in Albany soon after embarkation, and active service in Egypt, Turkey and France. The majority of these postcards visually depict places and people directly related to Lanser's active service, with accompanying notes on subjects such as training at Mena Camp, visiting the Pyramids, travelling to the front in Turkey, the landscape on the Gallipoli Peninsula and artillery used against Australian troops during the first landing at Anzac Cove.

This file contains:

Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother and father, Albany, Western Australia, 2 November 1914;
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his brother, Basil [Edward] Lanser, Mena Camp, Egypt, [14 December 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his sister, Edith Lanser, Mena Camp, Egypt, [14 December 1914];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his father, [Egypt], [16 December 1914];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother, [Egypt], [16 December 1914];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his sister, [Egypt], [18 December 1914];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother, [Egypt], [21 December 1914];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother, Mena Camp, Egypt, [c. December 1914];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his sister, [Egypt], [c. December 1914];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother, [Egypt], [c. December 1914];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his father, Alexandria, Egypt, [c. December 1914];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his brother, Basil [Edward] Lanser, [Egypt], [23 January 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his sister, Edith Lanser, [Egypt], [25 January 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother, [Egypt], 7 March 1915;
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his father, [S.S. Minnewaska], [9 April 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother and father, S.S. Minnewaska, Alexandria Port, [c. 9 April 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his sister, [Ethel Lanser], [19 April 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother, [Kasr-el-Arne, Cairo, Egypt], [5 May 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his sister, Edith Lanser, [Helouan, Egypt], [14-19 May 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his brother [Basil Edward Lanser], Helouan, Egypt, [14-19 May 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother, [Zeitoun, Egypt], 29 June 1915;
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother, at sea, T.S.S. Borda, 27 July 1915;
Field service postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his sister, Ethel Lanser, [Gallipoli], 2 August 1915;
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his mother, [Murdos Harbour, Lemnos, Greece], [15 August 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his father, [c. 1915];
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his father and sister, [Ethel Lanser] [France], 2 August 1916;
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his brother, Basil Lanser, France, 26 August 1916;
Postcard from Henry Miller Lanser to his sister, Ethel Lanser, 19 September 1916;
Postcard titled 'Albert en 1918', France [date unknown].