| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | 3DRL/3376 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 2.6 shelf metres: 12 boxes plus 5 oversize flat. |
| Object type | Papers |
| Maker |
Birdwood, William Riddell Various |
| Place made | France, Greece, Ottoman Empire: Turkey |
| Date made | 1910-1930 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM315 419/010/007 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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| Copying Provisions | Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required. |
Birdwood, Lord William Riddell (Field Marshal, b.1865 - d.1951)
Description
Collection of papers relating to Field Marshal Lord William Riddell Birdwood, commander of the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. The papers consist of diaries, correspondence, draft speeches, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, original orders and reports of battles for Gallipoli and Bullecourt. Other material, including a certificate from the Mayor of Hobart, relates to Birdwood's visit to Australia in 1920. Correspondents include Prime Minister William Hughes, Sir Keith Murdoch, Sir George F Pearce, Lord Liverpool, Sir James Allen, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir George Arthur, General Sir Ian Hamilton, Charles Bean, Austen Chamberlain and Lady Birdwood.
- Series 1: Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood's Personal Diaries, 1915-1920
- Birdwood, Lord William Riddell (Field Marshal, b.1865 - d.1951)
- Series 2: Wartime correspondence and papers, 1915-1919
- Series 3: Correspondence between Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood and Lord Liverpool, 1915-1919
- Series 4: Correspondence between Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood and Sir James Allen, 1915-1918
- Series 5: Correspondence between Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood and Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, 1916-1918
- Series 6: Correspondence between Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, and Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, 1915-1919
- Series 7: Correspondence with Sir George Foster Pearce, 1915-1919
- Series 8: Personal correspondence, 1912-1918
- Series 9: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1903 – 1950
- Series 10: Addresses and speeches given by Birdwood and others during the First World War, interwar period and Second World War.
- Series 11: Correspondence and other papers 1915 - 1930 related to the Dardanelles Campaign
- Series 12: Documents related to various campaigns including Gallipoli, Bapaume and Bullecourt
- Series 13: Federal Election and the Second Conscription Referendum, 1917
- Series 14: Personal papers, 1910-1920
- Series 15: Photographs and postcards, 1914-1930
- Series 16: Ephemera, 1915-1930
- Series 17: Newspaper Cuttings, 1902 - 1940