Jackson, Dudley, MM (Private, b.1895 - d.1970)

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Accession Number 3DRL/3846
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 3 wallets; 9 cms
Object type Document, Typescript, Postcard, Photograph
Maker Jackson, Dudley
Place made Australia: Queensland, Nambour, Egypt, Western Front
Date made 1915-1919; 1966
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM315 419/051/013
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.
Description

Collection relating to the First World War service of 2493 Private Dudley Jackson MM, 20 Battalion, Australia, Egypt, Western Front, 1915-1919. Collection consists of two notebooks containing Jackson's handwritten memoir of his military service; two typescript volumes entitled 'War Diary of D. Jackson' (each liberally illustrated with postcards and photographs); several small notes containing addenda to the typescript diary; a typescript letter, dated 13 February 1966, from William Henry Guard, a former member of 20 Battalion to Dudley Jackson; three coloured snapshots of headstones in the Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, France; a newspaper clipping featuring an informal review of Dudley Jackson's war diary.