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