Letters from Keith Rourke to his mother, and related correspondence to Mrs Rourke, 1914-1915

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Accession Number RCDIG0000142
Collection number PR04311
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 27
Object type Letter
Physical description 62 Image/s captured
Maker Various
Place made At sea, Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Kensington, Egypt
Date made 1914-1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

Letters relating to the First World War service of 889 Private Keith Rourke, 2nd Infantry Battalion,1914-1915. This file contains correspondence from Keith Rourke to his mother and other family members. These letters cover time spent training in Cairo, time spent at Gallipoli, including conditions, food and dispelling myths about the events of the landing on 25 April 1915. Later letters cover time spent at Afton Lodge Hospital in England.
File contains:
Letter card from Keith Rourke to his mother [n.d.];
Letter card from Keith Rourke to his mother, 1914;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, SS Suffolk, 23 October 1914;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, Mena Camp, 14 December 1914;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 3 January 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 24 January 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother 14 March 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 24 March 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 16 May 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 14 July 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 25 July 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 2 August 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 13 August 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 29 August 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 1 September 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 18 September 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 2 October 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 27 October 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 11 November 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 23 November 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother, 7 December 1915;
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother [n.d.];
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother [n.d.];
Letter from Keith Rourke to his mother and Nell [sister] [n.d.];
Postcard from Keith Rourke to his mother: Alexandria;
Poscard from Keith Rourke to his mother: Malta;
Postcard from Keith Rourke to his mother [n.d.]