• Title
  Marsh letter diary, 14 January-2 March 1917 / Henry James Marsh
• Creator
  Henry James Marsh
• Call number
  MLDOC 2475
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  14 January-2 March 1917
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  888188
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder) - carbon typescript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Private Marsh, a railway employee from Wynnum, Queensland, enlisted at the age of 20, 19 Apr. 1916 and embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A64 Demosthenes, 22 Dec. 1916. He served as a signaller with the 47th Battalion in France and Belgium. He was killed in action in Belgium, 12 Oct. 1917
• Scope and Content
  A diary in the form of a letter to his friend Bob, written on board the troopship Demosthenes on the voyage from Brisbane to Plymouth
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2013/D14683/a4923.htm
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
  Microfilm located at CY 4903, frames 56 - 86
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1025687
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
  Soldiers--Australia.
  Soldiers--Australia--Correspondence.
  Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
  Demosthenes (Ship)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE142069

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