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Title
Wheat war diaries and narratives, February 1914-ca. 1920 / John Harrison Wheat
Creator
John H. Wheat
Level of description
sub-fonds
Date

February 1914-ca. 1920
Type of material
Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
877572
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2012
Physical Description
0.05 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript, typescript
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

John Harrison Wheat, of Woollahra, New South Wales, was born in Sale, Victoria, 3 Aug. 1893. He served as a rating on the submarine AE2 from Feb. 1914 to 30 Apr. 1915 when it was sunk in the Sea of Marmora. He was a prisoner of the Turks, 1915-1918, working on the Baghdad Railway and was repatriated to England on the hospital ship Kanowna, Nov. 1918
Scope and Content
ITEM 01
John H. Wheat diary, 1914-1916

ITEM 02
John H. Wheat diary, 1916-ca. 1920

ITEM 03
John H. Wheat narrative, ca. 1914-1920

ITEM 04
John H. Wheat papers, ca. 1917-1918

ITEM 04
John H. Wheat photographs, ca. 1914-1918
General note

John Wheat re-wrote his diaries as a narrative. See diary narrative at MLMSS 3054/Item 3 for transcription
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
Microfilm : CY 2662, frames 42 - 243
Name
AE2 (submarine)
Kanowna (Ship)
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
World War, 1914-1918--Australia.
World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations.
Prisoners of war--Turkey.
Soldiers--Australia.

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