• Title
  Autograph letter signed from Fred Wills to his friends Mr. and Mrs. Dundas, with portrait of Fred Wills on postcard, 28 July 1916
• Creator
  Fred Wills
• Call number
  MLDOC 3260
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  28 July 1916
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials
• Reference code
  950560
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript, printed
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Alfred Henry Wills was born in England and served for 2 1/2 years with the 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry during the Boer War. He enlisted in the A.I.F. in Queensland at the age of 40 in Jan. 1916 and embarked from Brisbane on HMAT A46 Clan MacGillivray, 1 May 1916. He fought in France Dec. 1916-1917, was evacuated from Etaples in Jan. 1917, hospitalised for two weeks with malaria contracted in 1900, and invalided home 26 Sept. 1917 on HT Borda
• Scope and Content
  Letter written as a private of the 4th Pioneer Battalion, Reinforcement 3, expressing his dislike of war
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Compiled from the Manuscripts MLDOCs (7-1154C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012
• General note
  
  Author is assumed to be Alfred Henry Wills. The date on the letter was possibly added later and may be incorrect
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1023888
• Name
  Clan MacGillivray (ship)
  Borda (ship)
  
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
  World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Australian.
  Soldiers--Australia.
  Soldiers--Australia--Correspondence.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE380503

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