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422387
  • Title
    Brierley letters, 1918-1919/ Norman Brierley
  • Creator
  • Call number
    MLMSS 1281
  • Level of description
    sub-fonds
  • Date

    1918-1919
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    422387
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised : 2014
  • Physical Description
    0.03 metres of textual material - manuscript
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Norman Brierley, a farmer of Brisbane, Queensland was born in Annandale, New South Wales. He enlisted in Brisbane 15 Dec. 1917 aged 21 and embarked from Sydney on board RMS Ormonde, 2 March 1918. He served as a private with the 31st Battalion in France. After the armistice he travelled throughout France as batman to Lieutenant Hix
  • Scope and Content
    Letters (23) to his brother Herbert and sister-in-law Jess, describing a voyage to Egypt on the Ormonde, and from Egypt to Marseilles on the Indarra May 1918, torpedoing of the Leicester Castle, training at Codford camp, trench warfare in France Sep. - Nov. 1918, travels in France as batman to Lieutenant Hix and return to Australia on H.M.A.S. Port Melbourne Aug. 1919
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: In copyright
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder<br>
  • General note

    State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters
    Microfilm copy available at: CY 4930, frames 149 - 243
    Digital order no:Album ID : 1037131
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