Gillies, Kenneth James (Quartermaster Sergeant)

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Accession Number PR00925
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1cm (9 items)
Object type Papers
Maker Gillies, Kenneth James
Date made 1916-1917
Access Open
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Paybook, medical casualty movement forms and two photographs relating to the service of 4419 Quartermaster Sergeant Kenneth James Gillies 17 Battalion AIF and specifically to the way in which a medical casualty was officially processed. The medical forms include a Medical Transfer Certificate (Army Book 172) issued 22 May 1916, a Patients Pass issued 24 May 1916, a Field Medical card (Army Form W3118) issued 29 October 1916 and a tag (Army Form w3083) issued 6 November 1916. The papers also include a letter to Mrs. E.S. Gillies from the Department of Defence 1 May 1917 notifying her of her son's expected arrival in Australia.