Onions, Bert

Place Europe: France
Accession Number PR88/045
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1 wallet: 1cm
Object type Papers, Photograph, Newspaper cutting, Poem
Maker Onions, Bert
Date made 1916-1918
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM315 749/116/036
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.
Description

A small collection relating to 1967 Bert Onions who served with the 53rd Bn AIF, during the First World War. Collection comprises 5 items; a pocket size notebook presumably belonging to Onions, with names and address and a poem titled 'Packs'; a small extract from a letter written by JW and F Onions; a photographic postcard of studio portrait of uniformed soldier, dated 14/09/18; a small sketch with name 'Pte A.E Lown' written on back; a small newspaper clipping reporting that Cpl Victor Simpson and Signaller C.J. Stimson had been reported wounded in France.