Accession Number | AWM2021.7.384 |
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Collection number | 1DRL/0533 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | Wallet |
Item count | 1 |
Object type | Diary |
Physical description | 27 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Norgard, William |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Wallet 1 of 1 - Norgard, William (Sapper, b.1890 - d.1950)
Description
Collection relating to the service of 18563 Sapper William Norgard, 14th Reinforcements, 4 Division Signal Company, AIF, at sea, 1917. Collection consists of a typescript transcription (carbon copy) of a diary compiled by Sapper Norgard covering the period 3 August 1917 to 2 October 1917. The collection is notable for Norgard's description of life aboard HMAT Themistocles and her passage through the Panama Canal in August 1917.
[This document may in fact be a compilation of letters written by Sapper Norgard while on active service, and combined into a diary format for donation to the Australian War Memorial.] Location of original diary/letters unknown.