• Title
  Balme letter and diary, 29 April 1918 / Gerald Archibald Balme
• Creator
  Gerald Archibald Balme
• Call number
  MLDOC 1286
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  29 April 1918
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  423301
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  0.05 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Gerald Archibald Balme, insurance inspector of Geelong, Victoria embarked on HMAT A16 Port Melbourne 21 Oct. 1916 and fought with the 29th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement in France and Belgium. He was gassed 18 Mar. 1918 and admitted to the County of Middlesex War Hospital, St. Albans. He attended Senior Officers School, Aldershot July-Aug. 1918 and returned to Australia on the Port Melbourne 5 July 1919
• Scope and Content
  Letter to his wife from England, 29 Apr. 1918 enclosing MS. transcript of his shorthand diary kept as the sergeant of a working party on Messines Ridge, Belgium, 15 Nov. - 18 Dec. 1917
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales<br>
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: May be copied for reference and publication<br>
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2013/D12323/a4057.htm
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I papers
  Available on microfilm : CY 4887, frames 52 - 66
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1025715
• Name
  Port Melbourne (ship)
  
• Subject
  Messines (Belgium), Battle of, 1917.
  World War, 1914-1918--Belgium--Messines.
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
  Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
  Soldiers--Australia--Correspondence.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1513948

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