Welch, James Hamilton (Major)

Places
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
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.