Wallet 1 of 1 – Photostats of letters from Archie Graham Mackay to his family, 1914-1915

Places	Africa: Egypt Africa: Egypt, Alexandria Africa: Egypt, Cairo, Heliopolis Africa: Egypt, Suez Canal, Port Said Approximate locations: At sea Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli) Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli), Quinn's Post Area, Quinn's Post Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows, Broadmeadows Camp
Accession Number	AWM2020.22.46
Collection number	1DRL/0440
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Folder
Item count	1
Object type	Letter
Physical description	48 Image/s captured
Maker	Mackay, Archie Graham
Place made	At sea, Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows, Egypt: Alexandria, Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis
Date made	1914-1915
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

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Accession Number

AWM2020.22.46

Collection number

1DRL/0440

Collection type

Digitised Collection

Record type

Folder

Item count

Object type

Letter

Physical description

48 Image/s captured

Maker

Mackay, Archie Graham

Place made

At sea, Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows, Egypt: Alexandria, Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis

Date made

1914-1915

Conflict

First World War, 1914-1918

Source credit to

This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Collection relating to the service of 313 Private Archie Graham Mackay, 15 Battalion, AIF, Australia, Egypt. Collection consists of photostat copies of nineteen letters written by Private Archie Mackay to various members of his family, between November 1914 and April 1915. Photostat copies made by Australian War Memorial. Location of originals unknown.

Wallet 1 of 1 – Photostats of letters relating to the First World War service of 313 Private Archie Graham Mackay, 15 Battalion, AIF.

Wallet contains nineteen photostats of letters written by Private Archie Mackay to various members of his family, between November 1914 and April 1915. The letters describe life at Broadmeadows training camp and local conditions at Heliopolis and Alexandria including visits to the Pyramids and several mosques. Private Mackay's last letter was written while on board a troopship bound for Gallipolli, dated Saturday 17 April 1915. He was killed in action at Quinn's Post on 9/10 May 1915.

The wallet also includes biographical notes for Private Archie Graham Mackay and Gunner Alexander Sutherland Mackay.

Photostat copies made by Australian War Memorial.