Parkes, Murray (Sapper, b.1890 - d.1968)

Places	Europe: United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh Middle East: Iraq, Baghdad
Accession Number	PR03015
Collection type	Private Record
Record type	Collection
Measurement	2 boxes: 35cm
Object type	Letter, Postcard, Book, Object
Maker	Parkes, Murray Various
Place made	At sea, Australia, Mesopotamia, United Kingdom: Scotland
Date made	1915-1919
Access	Open
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions	Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.

Places

Accession Number

PR03015

Collection type

Private Record

Record type

Collection

Measurement

2 boxes: 35cm

Object type

Letter, Postcard, Book, Object

Maker

Parkes, Murray
Various

Place made

At sea, Australia, Mesopotamia, United Kingdom: Scotland

Date made

1915-1919

Access

Open

Conflict

First World War, 1914-1918

Copying Provisions

Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.

Collection relating to 17539 Sapper Murray Parkes, 1st Australian Cavalry Divisional Signal Squadron and 1 Australian Wireless Squadron, 1916-1919. This large collection contains correspondence between Parkes and various family members including his mother, sister and aunts; training notes; photographs; notebooks with poetry and stories; miscellaneous tickets and souvenirs; handwritten notes etc.

Content listing as follows -
Box 1:
- Wallet 1 - Molly: letters to and from Parkes' sister Molly (44 items in 5 folders)
- Wallet 2 - Mother: correspondence from Parkes' mother (30 items in 3 folders)
- Wallet 3 - Mother: correspondence to Parkes' mother 1917 & 1918 (47 items in 2 folders)
- Wallet 4 - Mother: correspondence to Parkes' mother 1919 & undated; postcards from various authors, letters from her son Norman (47 items in 4 folders)
- Wallet 5 - Aunts: correspondence from Parkes' aunts undated, 1917 & 1918 (50 items in 3 folders)
- Wallet 6 - Aunts: correspondence from Parkes' aunts, 1919 and correspondence from Parkes to his Aunts (78 items in 2 folders)
Box 2:
- Wallet 7 - Letters between various people and Parkes (35 items in 7 folders)
- Wallet 8 - Letters between various people and Parkes (30 items in 5 folders)
- Wallet 9 - Unidentified and incomplete letters, handwritten notes and poetry (41 items in 4 folders)
- Wallet 10 - Training and battle notes (8 items in 1 folder)
- Wallet 11 - Miscellanous items and photographs (47 items in 2 folders)
- Wallet 12 - Unattached envelopes (34 items in 1 folder)