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Title
Benson war diary kept while a prisoner of war in Germany, 1917-1918 / Claude Corderoy Benson
Creator
Claude Corderoy Benson
Call number
MLMSS 885
Level of description
sub-fonds
Date

1917-1918
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
423106
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Physical Description
0.05 metres of textual material (1 folder) - Typescript with MS. corrections and additions
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Corporal Claude Corderoy Benson, a tailor of Kogarah, Sydney was born in Armidale, New South Wales and enlisted at Liverpool, 6 June 1915. He embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A9 Shropshire, 20 Aug. 1915 and served with the 13th Battalion A.I.F. He was captured 11 Apr. 1917 on the Hindenburg Line near Riencourt, France
Scope and Content
Describes capture, confinement in France and Germany and experiences at the Exchange Barrack at Gustrow, Germany where he cared for sick prisoners. He describes the camp and hospital at Gustrow and escape from Aachen into Holland. Includes postcard photographs of Gustrow Camp, some with letters to his wife on back, 23 Jan.-29 July 1918
Copying Conditions
Copyright status:: In copyright
Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
Rights and Restrictions Information:: May be copied for reference and publication
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Finding Aids
Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2011/D11977/a2754.htm
General note

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
Microfilm located at CY 3662, frames 1 - 72
Digital order no:Album ID : 1063845
Name
Australia. Army. Battalion, 13th
Benson, Claude C.
Shropshire (ship)
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons, German.
Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
Soldiers--Australia.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
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