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Title
Gibson diaries, 17 November 1914-6 March 1916 / Hunter Gibson
Creator
Hunter Gibson
Level of description
sub-fonds
Date

17 November 1914-6 March 1916
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
422492
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Physical Description
0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Hunter Gibson, a clerk of Bundarra, New South Wales enlisted 17 Aug. 1914 and embarked from Sydney on board Transport A14 Euripides, 20 Oct. 1914. he served with the 4th Battalion, 1st Division A.I.F., later being transferred to 1st Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery. He trained in Egypt and landed at Gallipoli in Apr. 1915 where he was wounded and sent back to Egypt. He returned to Gallipoli and in Aug. 1915 was invalided back to Egypt, and later served in France and returned to Australia in Dec. 1918
Scope and Content
ITEM 01
Hunter Gibson diary, 17 November 1914-March 1915

ITEM 02
Hunter Gibson diary, March 1915 – March 1916
General note

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
Microfilm : CY 4874, frames 1 - 80
Subject
Euripides (Troopship).
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
Soldiers--Australia.

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