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Title
Francis William Roberts papers, 1918-1919
Creator
Francis William Roberts, d. 1918
Call number
MLDOC 1361
Level of description
sub-fonds
Date

1918-1919
Type of material
Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings
Reference code
422316
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Physical Description
0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder) - carbon typescript with MS. corrections and additions
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

F. W. Roberts, orchardist of Upper Hawthorn, Victoria enlisted 23 Feb. 1916 aged 27 years. He embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT A11 Ascanius, 11 May 1917. While serving with the 21st Battalion, 6th Brigade, 2nd Division of the Australian Imperial Force, commanded by Major-General Charles Rosenthal, he was killed in the attack on Mont St Quentin, France on Sunday, 1 Sept. 1918
Scope and Content
Copies of extracts from his diary, 1 July - 30 Aug. 1918 and from letters to his wife, 9 July - 23 Aug. 1918. Includes papers re his active service in France, as a private in the 21st Battalion, including photograph of Roberts and poems. Also includes a newspaper cutting re the proposed memorial of the Mont St Quentin attack
Copying Conditions
Copyright status:: In copyright
Copyright holder:: assignee of J. Roberts
Approval for reproduction required:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
Finding Aids
Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2013/D12163/a4815.htm
General note

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I papers
Microfilm : CY 2972, frames 1 - 27
Digital order no:Album ID : 1025706
Name
Ascanius (Ship)
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
Soldiers--Australia.
Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
Soldiers--Australia--Correspondence.
World War, 1914-1918--Australia.
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