| Places | |
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| Accession Number | 1DRL/0563 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 1 cm. |
| Object type | Papers |
| Maker |
Sampson, Victor Horatio Buller |
| Place made | Australia |
| Date made | 1927 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM93 12/11/72 |
| 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. |
Sampson, Victor Horatio Buller (Major, b.? - d.1916)
Description
Collection relating to Major Victor Horatio Buller Sampson, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) and 53 Battalion, AIF, 1914-1916, German New Guinea, at sea, Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front. Collection consists of one letter written by Major Sampson to his parents in August 1915; a handwritten copy of an address, in Pidgin English, which Major Sampson delivered to the indigenous peoples of New Ireland (New Guinea).
History / Summary
Biographical note: Major Victor Horatio Buller Sampson, 53 Battalion (late 19 Battalion), AIF, and formerly of the AN&MEF (New Guinea), who was killed in action on 19 July 1916 in the Battle of Fromelles. Other biographical details concerning him are: clerk in the AMP Society; of Sydney; born Upper Manilla, NSW; educated at a public school and afterwards at Tamworth Grammar School; age at time of death, 28.