Letters of Dalbert Hallenstein: On Active Service with the AIF

Hallenstein, Dalbert Isaac (Lieutenant, b.1893 - d.1918)

Places	Africa: Egypt, Cairo Africa: Egypt, Cairo, Abbassia Africa: Egypt, North Egypt, Zeitoun Asia: Ceylon, Colombo Europe: France, Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Bailleul Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Amiens Europe: Greece, Aegean Islands, Lemnos Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London Europe: United Kingdom, England, Surrey, Elmbridge, Cobham Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli) Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Cape Helles Area, Cape Helles
Accession Number	AWM2018.785.97
Collection number	MSS1688
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Item
Item count	1
Object type	Manuscript
Physical description	118 Image/s captured
Maker	Hallenstein, Dalbert Isaac
Place made	At sea, Australia: Victoria, Queenscliff, Egypt, France, Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, United Kingdom: England
Date made	1914-1918; c 1920
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Description

Bound copy of letters relating to the First World War service of Second Lieutenant Dalbert Isaac Hallenstein, 5th Australian Machine Gun Battalion. This item consists of a bound and printed copy of the letters and photographs from Dalbert to his family in Australia and England between 19 October 1914 and 29 August 1918. The letters mention: his training in Queenscliff; the voyage on board HMAT Runic; training in Egypt; the fighting at Gallipoli; his instructional duties at Gallipoli; his leave in Lemnos; his move to Alexandria to recover from an illness; his opinion on the distribution of parcels from charities and families amongst the soldiers; his feelings at being attached to the 14th Australian Machine Gun Company and moving up to the front line in France; how much he enjoys being part of a machine gun battalion; the conditions in the Somme; his leave times in England and his responses to matters mentioned in letters from home. The family had this book printed in Melbourne in approximately 1920.