Wallet 1 of 2 - Correspondence and photographs relating to the service of Paul Connell Nunan

Nunan, Paul Connell (Warrant Officer)

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Places	Africa: Egypt, Cairo, Ghezireh Approximate locations: At sea Europe: Belgium Europe: France Oceania: Australia, South Australia, Port Adelaide
Accession Number	AWM2019.22.305
Collection number	3DRL/6511B
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Wallet
Item count	1
Object type	Letter, Postcard, Photograph
Physical description	33 Image/s captured
Maker	Nunan, Paul Connell
Place made	At sea, Australia: South Australia, Port Adelaide, Belgium, Egypt: Cairo, Ghezireh, France
Date made	1915-1925
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

Wallet 1 of 2 - Correspondence and photographs relating to the First World War service of 4194 Captain Paul Connell Nunan MM, 6th Australian Field Ambulance.

This collection includes field service postcards, cablegrams, and postcards written and sent by Captain Nunan during his service. It also includes other ephemera, such as the Armistice Christmas dinner menu (in French), Nunan's scroll of commission as captain (1922), a blank Indian field service postcard written in Sanskrit.

This file contains:

Postcard from Paul [Connell Nunan] to [Martha Ella] Nunan, Port Adelaide, 12 August 1915;
Postcard from Paul [Connell Nunan] to Mary Acton, [At sea], 16 August 1915;
Letter from Paul [Connell Nunan] to [John Francis Nunan], 2nd Australian General Hospital, The Palace, Ghezireh, 10 September 1915;
Field service postcard from Paul [Connell Nunan] to [John Francis] Nunan, 26 September 1915;
Photograph of the Casualty Clearing Station, Anzac Beach, October 1915 [Caption on verso];
Blank field service postcard found near Indian mule camp, Anzac, 1915 [Caption on verso];
Photograph of Indian Mule Transport Corps Camp, [c.1915] [Caption on verso];
Field service postcard from Paul [Connell] Nunan to [Frances Winifred] Nunan, 1 August 1916;
Cablegram from Paul [Connell] Nunan to his family, 8 August 1916;
Postcard from Paul [Connell Nunan] to [John Francis Nunan], France, 1916;
Picture postcard from Paul [Connell] Nunan to Martha Ella Nunan, France, 8 July 1917;
Portrait of [Paul Connell Nunan] holding a smoking pipe, [c.1918] including envelope postmarked 14 [March] 1918;
The Armistice Xmas Dinner [Menu], Sargents Mess, Mallines, Belgium, 25 December 1918;
Commissioning scroll for rank of captain for Paul Connell Nunan, 19 March 1925; and
Australian Comforts Fund postcard, "Our Boys at the Front" (No.14), [date unknown].