Photostat copy of diary for Major Frederick Harold Tubb, 1914

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Accession Number RCDIG0000838
Collection number 1DRL/0584
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 1
Object type Diary
Physical description 19 Image/s captured
Maker Tubb, Frederick Harold
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1927
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

Photostat copy of a diary relating to the First World War service of Major Frederick Harold Tubb VC, 7th Battalion. This file consists of part two of a diary kept by Major Frederick Harold Tubb during 1914. In this diary, written between 3 December 1914 and 30 December 1914, Major Tubb describes disembarkation at Port Said, dealing with the horses, sightseeing around the Pyramids, a Masonic meeting and Christmas in Egypt. Also included is a photostat copy of a map showing the route from Australia to Egypt and a photstat copy of an account of the Sydney-Emden encounter. The copies were made by the War memorial in 1927.