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Accession Number | PR02078 |
Collection type | Private Record |
Record type | Collection |
Measurement | 1 wallet: 1cm |
Object type | Letter, Object, Certificate, Papers |
Maker |
Various |
Place made | Australia: South Australia, Korea |
Date made | 1952-1966 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Korea, 1950-1953 Period 1960-1969 |
Welch, James Hamilton (Major)
Description
Collection relating to 3961 Sergeant James Hamilton Welch, A Company, 1 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), Korean War. Collection comprises a letter written to his parents, dated 6 July 1952; service documents including a leave pass and air travel authority certificate; leave passes, safe conduct pass, food rations, railway tickets and cartoons; and a photocopy of a daily wireless log for 1RAR. Other collection items include letters written by Major B S O'Dowd, including correspondence relating to a painting commissioned by 3RAR on Kapyong, 1966.
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