844001
- TitlePartridge diary, 1914-1917 / Darrell Partridge
- Creator
- Call numberMLMSS 2939
- Level of descriptionsub-fonds
- Date
1914-1917 - Type of material
- Reference code844001
- Issue CopyDigitised : 2014
- Physical Description0.03 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Sergeant Darrell John Partridge, a railway employee of Dungog, New South Wales enlisted aged 23 on Aug. 28 1914 and embarked from Sydney on board Transport A23 Suffolk, 18 October 1914. From July 10 1915 he served with the Australian Army Medical Corps of the 2nd Battalion at Gallipoli and in France. He was promoted to Corporal on Aug. 12 1916 and to Sergeant on Jan. 24 1917. He was hospitalised in England with trench fever, May 1917. He was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field at the Battle of Bullecourt and was discharged on Nov. 29 1917. - Scope and ContentDescribes the voyage from Sydney to Egypt on the S.S. Suffolk, Oct. 16-Dec. 9, 1914, camp life at Mena Camp near Cairo, experiences at Gallipoli April 25-Nov. 28, 1915 including stretcher bearing during the Lone Pine engagement, military operations in France Mar. 27 1916- May 3 1917 including Battalion movements and engagements at Pozieres and Bullecourt, and return to Sydney Oct. 27, 1917.
- Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright<br>
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder<br> - Finding AidsRead the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2011/D02650/a2339.htm
- General note
Microfilm available at CY 2982, frames 1 - 56
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
Digital order no:Album ID : 879074 - Conservation note
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