Bostock, Henry Phillips (Sergeant, b.1895)

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Accession Number PR83/110
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1 box: 10 cm
Object type Papers
Maker Bostock, Henry Phillips
Date made 1915-1919
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM315 419/011/045
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Collection relating to the First World War service of 1310 Sergeant Henry (Harry) Phillips Bostock, 10 Australian Light Horse. Collection consists of an extensive set of diaries, notebooks, letters, lettercards, postcards and telegrams written to his family. The diaries cover his enlistment; duties with 3 LH Bde scouts at Romani, Magdhaba, Rafa and Gaza; comments on Beersheba and Es Sale; details of specialist sniper training and scouting activities; later references to the Turkish Armistice and Arab unrest; and his return to Australia. Also included are a large number of negatives, taken at the time by Sgt Bostock.