Pockley family papers, 1863-1959

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1863-1959

Textual Records, Objects, Graphic Materials, Photographs

422127

Partly Digitised : 2014

(2") box

Captain Brian Colden Antill Pockley and Lieutenant John Graham Antill Pockley were the sons of Dr. Antill Francis Pockley.
Brian Colden Antill Pockley, medical practitioner of North Sydney, was appointed Captain in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, 18 Aug. 1914. He was the first Australian officer to be killed in action during World War I, when going to the aid of W.G.V. Williams, who became the first Australian serviceman to die, at Bita Paka, Rabaul 11 Sept. 1914.
John Graham Antill Pockley, farmer and grazier of Yarran Springs, N.S.W., embarked from Sydney on the Anchises 24 Jan. 1917 and served with the 63rd and the 33rd battalion in France where he was killed in action, 30 Mar.1918

ITEM 01
Brian Colden Antill Pockley papers, 1910-1917

ITEM 02
Letters to Dr. Francis Antill Pockley regarding his sons Brian and John Graham Antill Pockley, 21 August 1890-19 February 1926

ITEM 03
Hooke family papers, 1863-1959

ITEM 04
University of Sydney, Public Examination, 1875

ITEM 05
Pockley family photographs, ca. 1866-1918

ITEM 06
Pockley family realia : Albert chain possibly belonging to Brian Colden Antill Pockley : an ivy leaf from a vine Carlyle planted in his garden at Chelsea : fabric writing case

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

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