| Places | |
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| Accession Number | 1DRL/0504 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 1 cm |
| Object type | Papers |
| Maker |
Moody, Harold Eric |
| Place made | Egypt, France, Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli |
| Date made | 1915-1916 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM93 12/11/1386 |
| 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. |
Moody, Harold Eric (Lieutenant, b.? - d.1916)
Description
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Harold Eric Moody, 7 Battery, 3 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, 1915-1916. Collection consists of letters, and copied extracts of letters, written by Moody to his family in Australia, and a pocket diary kept by Moody between January and August 1916.
History / Summary
Biographical note: Lieutenant Harold Eric Moody, 7 Battery, Field Artillery, AIF. Solicitor, of Yorketown, South Australia, born Adelaide; educated at St. Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide; served in the Adelaide artillery as a Lieutenant; joined the AIF as a 2nd Lieutenant in May 1915 and was posted to reinforcements for the 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, 3 September 1915 - taken on strength of the 7th Battery; 15 October 1915 - Lieutenant; 20 August 1916 - wounded at Pozieres; 28 August 1916 - died of wounds, aged 23. Son of Clarence Percival Moody and Eleanor Maud Moody, of Newcastle, New South Wales.