Papers relating to Percy George Rupert Parkes, c. 1915-1983

Parkes, Percy George Rupert, MC and Bar (Captain, b.1891 - d.1983)

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Places	Europe: France, Nord Pas de Calais, Pas de Calais, Arras Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Le Sars Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Pozieres Area, Pozieres Europe: United Kingdom, England, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Colac Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Kerang
Accession Number	AWM2018.785.30
Collection number	PR85/195
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Item
Item count	1
Object type	Papers
Physical description	26 Image/s captured
Maker	Birdwood, William Riddell Evans, David Stanley Rossiter, Thomas Frederick Unknown
Place made	Australia, France, Ottoman Empire: Turkey
Date made	1915-1983
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Description

Papers relating to the First World War service of Captain Percy George Rupert Parkes, 23rd Infantry Battalion, c. 1915-1983.

This file contains a selection of official records such as orders and reports issued in France as well as miscellaneous papers relating to the service of Percy George Rupert Parkes. A paper titled 'Experiences of the Victorian Sixth Brigade in the Somme and Arras Battles' outlines the author's approach to leadership and addresses a variety of practical lessons learnt during the aforementioned battles.

This file contains:

Note written in Turkish, [c. 1915, annotated];
Operation Order No. 27, 6th Infantry Brigade, [France] 4 August 1916, [map sketch attached];
Secret Battalion Operation Order No. 47 by Lieutenant [David Stanley] Evans, [France] 12 February 1917;
Patrol report by Captain T.F. [Thomas Frederick] Rossiter, France, 6 March 1917;
Patrol report and instructions by Captain Percy George Rupert Parkes, France, [c. March 1917]
Map of 'Ecoust - St. Mein', Edition 3, France, [c. April 1917] [annotated];
Account titled "Experiences of the Victorian Sixth Brigade in the Somme and Arras Battles" by "One Who Knows?" [Percy George Rupert Parkes], France, 24 May 1917 [annotated];
Photocopy of a letter by W. R. [William Riddell] Birdwood to [Percy George Rupert] Parkes, 1st Anzac Corps, [France], 27 June 1917;
Statement of service relating to Captain Percy George Rupert Parkes, Australian Military Forces, Melbourne, 24 July 1919; and
Photocopy of an amended statement of service relating to Captain Percy George Rupert Parkes, [Victoria, c. 1983].