Letters from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, 1916

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Accession Number RCDIG0001269
Collection number 1DRL/0427
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 31
Object type Letter
Physical description 77 Image/s captured
Maker McCrae, Geoffrey Gordon
Place made At sea, Egypt: Alexandria, Egypt: Cairo, Gezira, Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis, Egypt: North Egypt, Choubra, Egypt: North Egypt, Moascar, Egypt: Suez Canal Zone, France
Date made 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
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Description

Letters relating to the First World War service of Major Geoffrey Gordon McCrae, 60th Battalion. These letters from McCrae to members of his family span the period January 1916 to his death in July 1916 and cover: return to Egypt from Lemnos in January; recollections on the period preceding the evacuation in December 1915; hospitalisation due to enteric fever with No. 2 Australian General Hospital at Gezireh Palace; convalescence in Choubra; sketches of views outside while in hospital; convalescence in Heliopolis with No. 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital; sightseeing in Cairo; transfer to 60th Battalion; staging camp at Moascar; departure from Egypt and voyage to France; sketch of the devastated French countryside; last letter on 19 July 1916 talking of leading 60th Battalion into action at Fromelles. McCrae was killed at Fromelles on 19 July 1916. This file contains:
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, H.M.T. Empress of Britain, 4 January 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his sister, H.M.T. Empress of Britain, 4 January 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Ghezireh Palace, 14 January 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae [to his parents], No. 2 General Hospital, Gezireh, 18 January 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, No. 2 General Hospital, Gezireh, 23 January 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae [to his family], No. 2 General Hospital, [Gezireh], 26 January 1916 to 10 February 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Gezireh, 5 February 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, No. 2 [Australian General Hospital], Gezireh, 10 February 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his sister, No. 2 Australian General Hospital, Gezireh, 14 February 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, No. 2 [Australian General Hospital], Gezireh, 15 February 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, No. 2 [Australian General Hospital], Gezireh, 22 February 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Schoubra [sic], 2 March 1916;
Handwritten transcript of letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae [to his family], Choubra, 2 March 1916 [transcript made by father];
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Choubra, 5 March 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his father, Choubra, 6 March 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Choubra, 9 March 1916 [includes sketch of Choubra];
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Choubra, 17 March 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, No. 3 Auxiliary Hospital, Sporting Club, Heliopolis, 2 April 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, No. 3 Auxiliary [Hospital], Heliopolis, 11 April 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, No. 3 Auxiliary Hospital, Heliopolis, 18 April 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, [Heliopolis], 23 April [1916];
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, April 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Ras El Tin, Alexandria, 3 May 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Staging camp, [Suez] Canal zone, 22 May 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Moascar, 8 June 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Moascar, 15 June 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, [about to embark on RMS Kinfauns Castle], 21 June 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, RMS Kinfauns Castle, 26 June 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, Somewhere in France, 13 July 1916;
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae to his family, 19 July 1916.
Letter from Geoffrey Gordon McCrae, [n.d.] [includes colour sketch of McCrae and Perry family crests and of a baby, presumably Charles Stewart Perry].