| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | PR82/008 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 box: 9 wallets: 10 cm |
| Object type | Papers |
| Maker |
Various |
| Place made | At sea, France |
| Date made | 1914-1917 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM315 419/101/021 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)
Description
Collection consists of letters, postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs and negatives relating to various soldiers serving in France and the Middle East during the First World War. The items were sent to the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) from the relatives of soldiers serving in France and the Middle East to be offered for possible publication as correspondence from the troops. The items mention in detail the living conditions experienced on the front, in trenches and at sea; camp life; the Gallipoli campaign; hospitalisation, injuries and servicemen killed in action; conscription; and the home front. Within each wallet there is an itemised finding aid pertaining to the contents of the wallet.
Wallet 1
Subjects covered include: convalescence and hospitalisation; Gallipoli and the Anzac trenches; enlistment; camp life in Cairo; the Egyptian peoples, tourism, landscapes and agriculture; censorship and the mail.
Wallet 2
Subjects covered include: trench warfare; Australian Red Cross; landing at Gallipoli; injuries, casualties and hospitalisation; proposed referendum in Australia; and the welfare of the troops.
Wallet 3
Subjects covered include: Empire Day; perspectives on the war; living conditions; and trench warfare.
Wallet 4
Subjects covered include: Gallipoli; Ypres; camp life in France; convalescence and hospitalisation; stretcher bearers; returning home; mental effects of trench warfare and conditions on the front.
Wallet 5
Subjects covered in clude: training; women in the workforce and votes for women; nursing, hospital treatment and conditions; courage of ponies in extreme conditions; perspectives on the war; and HMAS Brisbane.
Wallet 6
Subjects covered include: conflict in France; the Navy and naval action in Rabaul; hospitalisation in England; and prisoners of war (POW) in Germany.
Wallet 7
Subjects covered include: honours and awards; hospitalisation; conscription; mail to troops; POW in Germany; the Comfort Fund; war correspondent Charles Bean; soldier settlement blocks, pensions, soldier welfare and returning home; and the sinking of the Emden.
Wallet 8
Subjects covered include: transport of troops; living conditions and camp life; recruitment; injury and hospitalisation; Gallipoli campaign; and German prisoners.
Wallet 9
Subjects covered include: the Armistice; propoganda and pamphlet drops; training; celebrating Christmas; Gallipoli; and burying the dead.
- Letter from Florence Whitty to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 16 February 1916
- Letter from John Albert Morgan to his parents, 5 November 1915
- Letter from 443 William Hilder (Bill) to his father, 5 December 1915.
- Letter from J M Jarvis to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October 1915
- Letter from Eric Lorentzen to his wife and daughter
- Letters from Samuel (Sammy) Greer to his mother
- Letter from Miss F Jackson to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January 1916
- Letter from Harry Peacey to his mother and all at home, 29 July 1915
- Letter from J M Jarvis to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 25 January 1916
- Letter from Private Harrold Consett Davis to Tom, 5 December 1916.
- Letter from Herbert Cropp to his friend W Richardson, 29 February 1916
- Letter from 'brother' [Unknown] to his sister "Win", 4 May 1915
- Letter from Harold (Kelly) Westman to “Dear old pal”, 6 August 1915.
- Letter from unknown 31 July 1916
- Letter From Harold Westman to "Peter and the boys", 15th August 1915
- Letter from [unknown] to Sue, 23 August 1915
- Letter from Sydney Mahoney to his mother, 20th April 1916
- Letter from Ida Hovenden to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November [1915]
- Letter from William Edward Greenwood, 18th Battalion to his mother, 1 September 1915
- Letter from William 'Willie' Robert Felton to his sister Jean, 11 October 1915
- Letter from Lance Corporal James Bernard Maguire, 4th Battalion to his uncle, 22 August 1915
- Letter from Stanley George Jury, 4th Battalion to his mother, [30 August 1915]
- Letter from William Robert Felton, 13th Battalion, to his Aunt and Uncle, 11 October 1915
- Letter from "Yeldihc" to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June 1915.
- Letter from [Lewis Pentreath Curnow] to his mother, 2 May 1915
- Letter from George to his mother, 2 May 1915
- Letter from Spencer Grove to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 28 June 1915
- Letter from Lewis Pentreath Curnow to Mrs Flemming, 15 February 1916
- Letter from Albert Edward Dowse to Gladys, 19 September 1915
- Letter from Granville de Laune Ryrie to Fred Flemming, 4 December 1915
- Letter from Edward John Joseph Ringrose to his brother, 2 June 1915
- Letter from Daniel William Dignam to his mother, 16 August 1915
- Letter from Mrs Penson to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 2 April 1916
- Letter from George Henry Price to Ead and Frank, 24 May 1915
- Letter from Michael De Avila, 4th Battalion to his mother, June 1915
- Letter from Captain O.C. D'Alton to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October 1915
- Letter from Harry Gwyder Aldridge to his mother 16 May 1915
- Letter from Harry Gwyder Aldridge to his mother and wife, 4 May 1915
- Extract of a letter from Trooper John Byers Fisher to his parents received a few days after his death
- Letter from Alfred Frederick Jordan to Mr Shotton, 10 June 1915
- Letter from Bandsman E Clarke, 18th Battalion Band to Mr Ward, 9 September 1915
- Letter from M Dunlop to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 25 April 1916
- Letter from H Marsh to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald 1 July 1915
- Letter from William Babington Dynes to Mr Reeve, Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 1916
- Letter from G McConnel to the editor of the Sydney Morning Hearld, 24 June 1915
- Letter from Mrs Blackburn to the Sydney Morning Herald Office.
- A hand written copy of a letter by Leslie Garling by his father, Clarence Garling
- Letter from Cedric Campbell Holding to Mr Henley, 9 October 1916.
- Letter from Harold Glynn Massey to Len, 25 July 1916
- Copy of a letter from Arthur Dennis, to his family, 18 August 1916
- Typed letter forwarded from Jas Sawer to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Corporal S Humphries
- Letter from Arthur Henry James Nixon to Dave, 27 May [1915]
- Letter from George Sullivan, to his Wife, 1 May 1915
- Letter from Alexander James Boyd to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 17 August
- Letter from Ida Daunt to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Arthur Paton to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 1916.
- Letter from Sydney Woollams to his parents, 18 July 1916
- Letter from Walter Harold Mobbs to Mr Cottnell, 19 October 1916
- Letter from Louie Samuels to Mr Heney, In the Field, 8 October 1916
- Letter from Herbert Alexander Legge to Mr Paton, France, 13 January 1917
- Letter from M Hannaford to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, 3 October 1916
- Letter from Private Joseph Criss to his sister, 12 August 1916
- Incomplete letter to 'Alec', H. M. S. Queen Mary
- Letter from William Cope to [James Oswald] Fairfax
- Letter from Sydney Luckett to The Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Cyril Charles Bentley Samuels to Mr Reeve
- Letter from Alfred George Semple to the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter From Hilda Cope to Mrs Irvine
- Letter from Anne Cheater to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Personal account by Maurice William Victor Mulready
- Letter from Gladys Brian to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter From Mrs C Gralton to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from 4933 Albert Anderson to Sir
- A note from Private Harry Field, 12th Battalion to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Nellie MacGee to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- An account written by Col Chaplain James Green
- Letter from William Babington Dynes to Mr Reeve, Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from [Unknown] to his brother Fred
- Letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from John Oswald Forsyth to his father
- Letter in french from a son to his parents
- Two letters from 'Harry' to his father
- Letter from Charlie to his Father
- Letter from Walter Mervyn Carne to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from 1804 Alexander James Boyd to Mr Reeve
- Typed account of action 'From Our Correspondent' to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from [Aunt Robie] to Ethel
- Letter from Nita Keerle to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Gerald Holmes to Mr Wallace
- Letter from Mrs Jordan to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Norman Victor Powe to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from J Heatherington to Mr Jerrems
- Letters and Postcards from Charles Spink to his family
- Letter from Mary Taylor to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from A Anderson to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Mrs F Reid to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Thomas Humphries Mollard to J Fairfax and sons
- Note from C M Winnon to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from A 'Gunner' to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Ruby Murray to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from [E MacDermod] to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Captain James Malcolm Lean to Mrs M M Russell
- Letter from H G Kilby to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from A E Young to the to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Alex to his brother James
- Letter from Alexander James Boyd to Mr Reeve
- Letter from Amy D Mehnke to Mrs Ray, Stawell
- Pages from the diary of Lieutant Boyd
- Typed letter from Walter Ernest Dexter to the Commissioner
- Letter From G G Nicholist to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Lucy E Edwards to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Constable E C Wavis, Bungendore Police station to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from W.R. Davies to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from George Frederick Campbell to his mother
- Newspaper clipping from the Malta Daily Chronicle
- Letter from Surgeon-General Hayward Reader Whitehead to Mrs H.M Suttor
- Note from Prime Minster William Morris Hughes
- Letter from Nina Campbell to the editor of the Women's pages, Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Alfred Charles Bundy to Sir, Warren Camp
- A sheet of paper with details of Sergeant Herbert William Hancock
- Letter from R.A. Napier to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Envelope sent to Mrs J McNeven
- A telegram from the Sydney Morning Herald to A. J [Arthur] Paton
- Letter from John H Alston to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Los Angles
- Letter from N Wallace to John Fairfax and Sons
- Two envelopes
- Negatives sent to the Sydney Morning Herald
- Negatives sent to the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from H Beegling to Sir [Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald]
- Letter from George A Jones to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter From [Unknown] to Mr Thompson
- Photograph of Major General Sir Thomas William Glasgow
- Photographic postcard of Belgian soldiers taken on the day they were leaving for the front
- Photographic postcard of No.17 General Hospital
- Two postcards of Cassel
- Cairo- Tombs of the Khalifs
- Hand-made postcard from James John Cook to his mother
- Letter from D.P. Mulligan to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Photograph of an unknown soldier
- Studio photograph of an unknown soldier
- Letter from Harry Percy Wrigley to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Photograph of five soldiers in uniform in front of a tent
- Letter from Albert Baker to the editor
- Three photographs possibly taken by Senior Chaplain Frederick James Miles
- Two photographs taken by [Unknown]
- Two photograph taken by [Unknown]
- Photographic Postcard of the S.S “Lovat”
- Photographic postcard of soldiers in uniform sitting and standing at leisure in open pavilion.
- Photograph of Australian Volunteer Hospital Car
- Photograph of line up of men in partial uniform holding blanket rolls
- Letter from J.A. Lawrence to Sir
- A small portrait in a decorative card frame
- A photographic postcard of Chaplain Reginald Herbert Pitt-Owen
- Photograph of [2nd] Lieutant H. M. Drake
- Studio photograph of [Trooper Hordern].
- Group Photographic portrait of nineteen soldiers of the No 2 Company, Australian mining corps
- Note from [Geoffrey] C Driffield to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Robert Thomas Simpson to Sir
- Letter from letter is Ethel Macdonald to Mr Ponutrey
- Note headed “Boys of the Dardanelles” by A. C. Wallace
- Photograph of Private 951 Barker Orielly Harding
- Letter from P. Greenstreet to Sir
- Letter from F.A. Moores to Sir
- Photograph of Herschel Harris and Reverent Michael Adler
- Letter from [Grannly Correspondent] to the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from Will G Hopper to the Manager of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Photographic postcard of Harry Richmond Sparks with unknown soldier
- Letter from Private Sims to Sir
- Letter from M Price to Sir
- Letter from Mrs H Williamson to Sir
- Letter From K Whiffen to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Letter from W Palmer to The Manager of The Sydney Morning Herald
- A newspaper cutting giving information relating to the death in France of Lieutenant Eric Brodie Mckay
- Photograph of a family
- A note which would have accompanied a photograph of Private Arthur Gordon Watson
- Four loose envelops found in the Sydney Morning Herald Collection
- Letter from Percy to his mother
- Two postcards from Rose to Mrs R Venn-Brown
- Three post cards from Frederick John 'Jack' Gibbons
- Two letters on card from Bob
- Letter from H.M. Wragge to the editor of The Sydney Morning Herald
- Two postcards from Norm to S.E 'Ern' Hollis
- Folder of letters relating to the Sydney Morning Herald
- Folder of letters relating to the Sydney Morning Herald