Records of the European War Collecting Project, established by the Trustees of the Mitchell Library in 1918

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Textual Records, Graphic Materials

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`During the war period the Trustees sought to acquire original letters and diaries of Australian soldiers. A considerable sum was expended in the purchase of such records, and many were received as gifts. The collection includes a presentation copy of Sir Ian Hamilton's "Gallipoli diary" with a tribute to the Australian troops under his command, and a part of his original typescript despatch with his own corrections in pencil; also the original telegraphic despatches from Gallipoli of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, and typescripts of his Gallipoli diaries. There are letters from Viscount Allenby, Sir William Birdwood and Sir Henry Rawlinson, and a large number of valuable diaries of members of the Australian Imperial Forces.'

Reference:
The Mitchell Library, Sydney : historical and descriptive notes / issued by the Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in the centenary year of the founder / Ida Leeson. Sydney : The Library, 1936.

Records listed alphabetically:

Addy diaries, 9 August 1915-20 March 1920 / Francis Vincent Addy
Alcock diary and reminiscences of experiences in the first World War, 1917-1919 / Thomas H. Alcock
Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander
Allsop war diaries, 1915-1917 / Wilfred Joseph Allan Allsop
Alwyne war diary, April - May 1915 / Charles Alwyne
Antill war diary, 1915-1916 / John Macquarie Antill

Bailey narrative of life aboard an Australian troopship, 22 October-28 December 1918 / Ernest Bailey
Baker diary, 1918-1919 / Charles Albert Baker
Baker letter, 17 December 1919 / H. Baker
Balme letter and diary, 29 April 1918 / Gerald Archibald Balme
Bartlett diaries, 3 April 1915-1919 / Leonard Victor Bartlett
Barwick diaries, 22 August 1914 - 26 January 1919 / Archibald Albert Barwick
Bell diary, 11 December 1915 - 21 July 1916 / James E. Bell
Bell papers, 14 April 1917-14 May 1918 / George William David Bell
Bell war diary, 16 December 1915 - 26 October 1916 / Roy Pinto Bell
Bendrey war diaries, 16 May 1915-17 September 1916 / William Ewart Bendrey
Benham scrapbook, May 1918-March 1919 / Alfred Horace Benham
Bennett war diary, 1914-1915 / J. Bennett
Benson war diary kept while a prisoner of war in Germany, 1917-1918 / Claude Corderoy Benson
Berry war diaries, 1915-1918 / Herbert Vincent Berry
Birkbeck papers, 1915-1919 / Gordon Tunstall Birkbeck
Blake diary, 1917-1919 / Frank Blake
Bleackley log of H.M.A.S. Australia, 1914-1916 / Hubert Bleackley
Blundell diaries, 1915-1918 / Richard Blundell
Booth war journal, 1915 / John Booth
Bordeaux diary and papers concerning the ship Emden, 29 July 1914-3 January 1915 / Franz Bordeaux
Bowler war diary, 21 May-July 1917 / William (Bill) Gordon Bowler
Bray war diaries, 1915-1919 / Alfred Ernest Cornelius Bray
Brewer diaries, 1914-1919 / Hector Brewer
Brewer papers, 20 June 1917-16 April 1919 / Francis Joseph Campbell Brewer
Brewster 'A Glimpse of War through a Private's Eyes', a retrospective account of experiences in World War I, 1915-1917 / John James Brewster
Brierley letters, 1918-1919/ Norman Brierley
Britton war diaries and field messages, 8 September 1916-19 February 1919 / C. J. Britton
Brooks war diary, 23 October 1916-19 November 1918 / J. Brooks
Brown diary, 1916-1917 / Allan Dunn Brown
Brown war diary, February 10, 1914 - November 5, 1918 / Herbert A. Brown
Bryan war diary, 17 August 1914-4 July 1918 / Edward Patrick Bryan
Burgess diaries, 3 September 1914-15 December 1918 / Joseph George Burgess
Burgis war diary, 26 June - 29 October 1915 / Frederick Carrington Burgis
Burrell diaries, 20 December 1915-1 July 1919 / William Henry Thornhill Burrell
Burstal's narrative of demobilisation events, 1919 / John Acheson Burstal

Camroux papers, 2 March 1915-15 November 1920 / W. H. Camroux
Cave letters, 1915-1919 / Harrie Joseph Cave
Choat war narrative, 1916-1918 / Wesley Paul Choat
Cicognani diary, 1 November 1914-September 1915 / Henry Claude Cicognani
Clarke diary, 1916-1917 / William Owen Clarke
Clarke war diaries, 17 November 1915-14 December 1916 / Eric Roy Clarke
Cleary diaries, 1916-1919 / Thomas Joseph Cleary
Cocks letter diary, 1916-1919 / Verner Cocks
Cohen war diaries, 1916-1919 / Benjamin Alfred Cohen
Colley-Priest diary, 9 November 1915-11 June 1919 / Langford Wellman Colley-Priest
Compton diaries, 17 March 1915 - 11 January 1919 / Albert Richmond Compton
Copley war diaries, 9 October 1915-5 January 1918 / Harold William Robert Copley
Cox diaries, 21 March 1916-10 April 1919 /Rudolph William Arthur Cox
Crooks war diary, 11 February 1915 - 24 May 1918 / Thomas Ray Crooks

Darchy war diaries, 16 June 1917-9 May 1919 / Thomas Darchy
De Mouncey diary, 1917-1918 / Ernest de Mouncey
Donnell papers, 1915-1919 / Anne Donnell

Edmonds diaries, 21 December 1917-27 January 1918 / Frederick Leonard Edmonds
Edmondson diaries, 1916-1918 / George Edward Edmondson
Evans war diaries, August 1914-December 1918 / Maurice Cann Evans

Farrell war diary, 2 February-17 September 1915 / Herbert W. Farrell
Fell war diaries, 1916-1919 / Robert Valentine Fell
Fisher diaries, 15 January 1917 - 31 December 1918 / Culbert Cecil Fisher
Flanagan diary, 1916-1917 / Edwin John Flanagan
Fletcher letters, 1914-1919 / Archie George Fletcher
Fox diary, 25 June 1915-20 December 1916 / Stanley Josiah Fox
Francis William Roberts papers, 1918-1919
Freebody war diaries, 1916-1919 / Arthur Henry Freebody
Fuljames diary, 5 June-3 October 1917 with 2 letters, 29 October 1917? and 18 April 1918 / Harris John Foljambe Fuljames

Geddes diaries, 31 March-5 September 1918 / Clifford Mervyn Geddes
Gibson diaries, 17 November 1914-6 March 1916 / Hunter Gibson
Giles papers, 16 May 1915-12 April 1919 / John Albert Giles
Giles papers, 9 May 1914-13 May 1919 / Arthur Clyde Giles
Gill war diaries, 8 August 1915-15 February 1919 / G. T. Gill
Gillett war narrative, 6 March 1916-30 July 1920 / Walter Edward Gillett
Gissing war diaries, 1914-1919 / Henry Ernest Gissing
Goodwin war diaries, 25 April 1915-4 December 1918 / Thomas Edward Goodwin
Gordon war narrative, ca. 1914-1917 / Alexander Dundas Gordon
Gower war diaries, 24 April-19 September 1915 / George Ernest Gower
Grant papers, 1917-1918 / Douglas Grant
Green diary, 14 August 1915-3 March 1919 / James Green
Greig war diary, 21 October 1916-18 March 1917 / Malcolm Murray Alexander Greig
Grinyer diaries, 29 March 1916-3 January 1918/ Alfred E. Grinyer

Hall papers, 2 May 1915-October 1916 /Peter Roiden Hall
Halse war diary, 1 February 1916-4 May 1917/ Edward George Halse
Hamilton war diaries, 13 March 1916-1 July 1919 / Robert Saunderson Hamilton
Hamilton-Kenny letter diaries, 29 August 1914-26 February 1915 / Frederick Hamilton-Kenny
Hardy diaries, 9 October 1915-26 November 1917 / William Daniel Hardy
Hargreaves diaries and papers, 1914-1953 / Charles Hargreaves
Harris diaries, 17 August 1914-27 December 1918 / Robert Harris
Harris narrative of the capture of S.S. Matunga and experiences as a prisoner of war, ca. 1918 / Keith Harris
Harris war diaries, 1915-1919 / Benjamin Harris
Harris war diaries, 6 September 1915-25 May 1919 / Herbert H. Harris
Harslett diaries, 3 June 1915-31 December 1918 /Cyril Harslett
Hawkes diaries, 13 May 1916-16 December 1917 / Thomas Chudleigh Hawkes
Hayne war diaries, 13 May 1916-21 August 1919 / Stanley Hayne
Hellmann diaries, 17 August 1914-1 November 1915 / Arthur Langley Hellmann
Hennell war diary, 6 October 1916-18 August 1919 / W. T. A. Hennell
Hill's letter from The Front, sent from London, 29 August 1915 / William John Rusden Hill
Hockey war diary, 31 October-25 December 1918 / Reginald Hockey
Hodge war diary, 17 December 1915-6 July 1919 / P. Hodge
Holt diaries, 4 June 1915-13 October 1919 / Oliver Lucien Samuel Holt
Horton war diary, ca. 1918 / Douglas David Horton
Hurley war diaries, 29 September 1915-22 November 1916 / Percival Joseph Hurley
Hutton war diaries, 1915-1918 / John Thomas Hutton
Hyder's letter to his mother, written 27-28 July 1915 / Laurie E. Hyder
Hyman diaries and papers, 22 August 1914 - 13 December 1915 / Arthur Wellesley Hyman

Iles war diary, 1914-1919 / G. H. Iles

James war reminiscences, August 1914-August 1918 / Mrs Britomarte James
Job letters and diary, 29 July 1917-16 May 1919 / Bernard Cedric Job
Joyce diaries, 19 January 1916-31 December 1917 / John Joyce

Keary papers, 19 August 1915-1918 / John F. Keary
Keatinge diary, 25 November 1916-13 November 1918 / M. B. Keatinge
King diary, 1 April-31 August 1917 / James Clive Selwyn King
King war diary, 8 May-21 September 1915 / Henry Aubrey King

Laseron diary, December 23, 1914-April 29, 1915 / Charles Francis Laseron
Lee diary, 14 August 1914-18 February 1915 / C. Lee
Letters written on active service during World War I, 1914-1919
Lewis war diary, August 1917-March 1919 / James Ray Lewis
Liddle diary and notebook, June 1915-December 1918 / James Robert Liddle
Linton war diaries, 1916-1918 / Noel Glendenning Linton
Lowe diary, 17 September-12 November 1918 / John Henry Lowe
Luders war diaries, 18 October 1914-8 November 1917 / Edward Michael Luders

MacArty war diary, 20 October 1914-24 July 1916 / Humphrey Warren Barker MacArty
MacDonald letters, 14 June-24 August 1918 / James Stuart MacDonald
MacDonald war diaries, 12 May 1915-13 September 1916 / Donald E. MacDonald
MacNamara diary, 19 August 1916-29 May 1919 / John Patrick MacNamara
Macrae war diaries, 12 November 1914-18 April 1918 / Gordon Macrae
Maddox diaries, 13 May 1915-11 June 1919 /John Owen Maddox
Makinson letter diaries, 10 April 1915-3 January 1916 / Frank T. Makinson
Marks war diary, 7 August 1914-21 December 1918 / Douglas Gray Marks
Marsh letter diary, 14 January-2 March 1917 / Henry James Marsh
Marshall papers, 22 February 1916-20 July 1919 / James Joseph Marshall
Martin diaries, 25 October 1916-31 December 1917 / Edwin John Martin
Martin war diary, 11 August-21 October 1914 / Jack W. Martin
McCarthy papers, 1915-1916 / Sidney McCarthy
McClintock diaries, 21 September 1915-18 July 1918 / George Thomas McClintock
McKay diary, 5 August 1916-24 May 1919 / Leslie James McKay
McKenzie diaries, 8 October 1914-5 December 1918 / James McKenzie
McKinley diaries, 1915-1916 / Thomas John McKinley
McLean letters, 18 December 1915-August 1916 / James Joseph McLean
Melly diaries, 3 January 1917-12 July 1918 / Oscar Melly
Mercer papers, 9 December 1917-19 June 1919 / Harold Mercer
Middleton diaries, 1916-1919 / William Frankfort Middleton
Minahan diary, 1 January 1917-3 January 1918 / M. Minahan
Mitchell diary, 8 May 1915-1 September 1918 / K. J. Mitchell
Molony war diaries, 26 April 1916-10 February 1919 / Frank Henderson Molony
Monk war diaries, 11 November 1916-12 November 1919 / Cecil George Monk
Moon war diary, 30 October 1916-19 March 1919 / Eric Moon
Moore diaries, 9 November 1915-2 April 1919/ Arthur John Moore
Moore letters and papers, 10 February 1907-15 March 1918 / Ralph Ingram Moore
Morleville diary, 4 August-15 November 1914 / Anthony de Morleville
Morris diary, 20 December 1915-22 August 1916 / Robert Irvine Morris
Morris war diaries, 18 October 1914-22 February 1917, with Turkish Koran, diary and proclamation / Alfred Prichard Kington Morris
Morris war diaries, 8 July 1916-7 February 1919 / Leslie Morris
Morrison diaries, 13 October 1917-8 September 1919 / J. E. Morrison
Murphy war diary, 18 October 1914-14 January 1916 / Samuel Thomas Michael Murphy
Murray diaries, 27 August 1914-5 November 1918 / E. Murray

Nash diary and miscellaneous papers, 1915-1916 / John Brady Nash
Nicholson diaries, 14 January 1916-23 May 1918 / William Henry Nicholson
Nixon family papers, 1906-1919
Norris war diaries, 1915, and narrative 1914-1916 / Sam Norris

O'Donnell diary, 6 December 1917-29 April 1918 / James Francis O'Donnell
O'Hare war diary and papers, 12 August 1914-15 October 1918 / A. O'Hare
Osborne diary, 16 December 1916-22 August 1919 / William Toovey Osborne
Ottway war diaries, 3 November 1915-10 May 1919 /Lancelot McArthur Ottway

Palmer war diary, 8 Dec. 1915-17 April 1919 / John A. Palmer
Partridge diary, 1914-1917 / Darrell Partridge
Pearce war diaries, 30 June 1915-26 December 1917 / Maurice Evelyn Pearce
Pearson diaries, 1 May 1916-2 November 1918 / William Pearson
Peters war records and letters, June 1916-August 1919 / Charles Harold Peters
Peterson diaries and sketches, 1 January 1916-3 May 1917 / William Peterson
Phelps diary, 3 May 1916-11 June 1919 / Edwin Walter Phelps
Potter diaries, 17 August 1918-16 January 1919 / Reynold Cleve Potter
Probert war diaries, 21 August 1914-19 September 1919 / John Keith Probert
Pye diaries and papers, 14 December 1914-10 January 1919 / Joseph Henry Pye
Pyke diaries, 14 September 1914-31 December 1917, and papers, 1914-1918 / Arthur Richard Pyke

Rainsford diaries, 1914-1918 / Walter Bruce Rainsford
Read war diaries, 17 August 1914-19 February 1915 / Clarence Hansby Read
Reynolds diary, 30 January- 4 November 1915 / Wynfrith Revell Reynolds
Rhodes diary, 26 June 1915-4 April 1916 / Oscar Rhodes
Richardson war narrative, 1916-1918 / Leslie Duncan Richardson
Riddell letter, 28 July 1922 / Clarence Riddell
Rider war diary, 20 March 1915-4 March 1916 / Edwin Rider
Riley diary and letter, 5 August 1914; 21 July 1913-25 January 1915 / Rev. Frederick Riley
Rodda diaries, 1917-1919 / Arthur Leslie Rodda
Rosenthal diaries, 25 September 1914-5 January 1920 / Sir Charles Rosenthal
Ruskin logs, 1914-1918 / Alfred Ruskin

Savige diary and photographs, 2 January 1918-27 January 1919 / Stanley George Savige
Schaeffer war diaries, 14 July 1915-18 February 1919 / Louis Eugene Michael Schaeffer
Scott diary, 23 October 1917-27 May 1918 with letter 5 November 1918 re experiences in France and the Battle of Amiens, 8 August 1918 / John Philipson Scott
Sheehy log of H. M. S. Orama, 1914-1917 / D. A. Sheehy
Shipman diaries, 28 May 1915-21 May 1919 / James Shipman
Silas diary, 1914-1916 / Ellis Silas
Smith diaries, 13 December 1914-26 February 1919 / Frank H. Smith
Smith diaries, 18 October 1914-2 September 1915 / Claude Stanley Smith
Smith letters, 16 February 1914-19 August 1919 / Arthur Henson Smith
Smyth war narrative, 28 March-12 June 1919 / A. McVicker Smyth
Sparke letter diary, 23 August 1914-June 1917 / Edward Rashleigh Sparke
Sparkes papers, 1914-1917 / William Percival Sparkes
Stanley papers, 1916-1918 / Malcolm Shore Stanley
Stettler 'The Battles of the Nations': being an account of war service in France, 1916 / composed by J.H. Stettler and written by private P.J. Stettler
Stuart diaries, 18 March 1915-28 December 1916 / Leslie Kemnitz Stuart
Sullivan letter diary, 27 October 1915-9 October 1917 / Eugene Sullivan

Taylor war diary, 16 January 1916-22 July 1919 / Tom Taylor
Tennent war narrative, 30 September 1916-1 October 1919
Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd
Tomlins war diaries, 21 August 1914 - 28 April 1917 / Fred Harold Tomlins
Tucker diaries, 14 September 1914-25 April 1917 / H. F. W. Tucker

Urquhart papers, 24 October 1917-19 July 1918 / Walter James Urquhart

Vial war diary, 6 August-19 November 1915 /John James Vial
Vick letters, 1916-1918 / Frederick Harold Vick
Vowles war diaries, August 1914-September 1919 / Rupert Taylor Vowles

Wagstaff war narrative, 18-20 May 1915 / Cyril Mosley Wagstaff
Walford papers, ca. 1914-1917 / Dudley V. Walford
Ward diary, 30 October 1917-16 January 1918 / Ernest Henry Ward
Ward diary, 6 October 1914 - 28 July 1915 / Eric Harford Ward
Watson war diary, 1917 / William Charles Watson
Weir papers, 1899-1919 / Frank Valentine Weir
Wells war diary, 11 April-31 December 1917 / Donald Percival Wells
Weston message books, 1915-1917 / Phillip Herman S. Weston
Wheat war diaries and narratives, February 1914-ca. 1920 / John Harrison Wheat
Whettam diaries, 14 January 1915-21 September 1918 / Eric Whettam
White diaries, 18 May 1916-16 June 1919 / Thomas Alexander White
Whitehead papers, February 1916-March 1919/ David Adie Whitehead
William Bradbury diary, 1915-1917
Wilmot account, written in February 1932, of the training of the Australian Wireless Squadron at Parramatta Park and Prospect in 1913 / Thomas R. Wilmot
Wilson diaries, 17 May 1916-1 June 1919 / John Davison Wilson
Wiltshire diaries, 1 August 1915-11 September 1919 / Aubrey Roy Liddon Wiltshire
Wittey diary, 12 June-27 December 1915 / Leonard Arthur Wittey
Wright diaries, 1915-1917 / Walter Vicery Wright
Wynne letters to Claude Leplastrier, 29 October, 15 November 1923 / R. H. Wynne

Young diaries, 9 November 1917-6 August 1919 / J. McC Young
Young war diaries, 1916-1919 / Sydney Bond Young

This collection includes pictorial material aggregated under the title:
World War I, 1914-1919 : pictorial material

Also known as the Soldiers' Diaries Collection or War Diaries Collection

The Library holds other manuscript and pictorial collections relating to the First World War that have been acquired separately from the European War Collecting Project. This additional material may be located within collections of personal and family papers.

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State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries