Ayliffe, Maurice (Sapper, b.? - d.1918)

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine
Accession Number 1DRL/0076
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1 wallet: 1 cm
Object type Letter
Maker Ayliffe, Maurice
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made 1927
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM93 12/11/250
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Collection relating to service of 2160A Private Maurice Ayliffe, 2 Field Squadron Engineers, Palestine, 1918. Collection includes letters to family in England. Copies made by Australia House, London in response to request to Ayliffe's family by Australian War Memorial, 1927. Location of originals unknown.

History / Summary

Biographical note: 2160A Sapper Maurice Ayliffe, 2 Field Company, Australian Engineers. Died of malaria, Damascus, 17 October 1918. Age 25. Son of Henry James and Jessie Flora Ayliffe, of 2 New Steine, Brighton, England. Born at Camberwell, London, England.