• Title
  Maurice John Pickrell papers, 1915-1919
• Creator
  Maurice John Pickrell, 1894-
• Call number
  MLMSS 8836
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1915-1919
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1013736
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Maurice John (Jack) Pickrell, was born in Sussex, England in 1894 and arrived in Australia around 1910 (as a 16 year old). He travelled around the country. He worked on an orange orchard at Mangrove Mountain and on a dairy farm. In 1914 he was employed as a driver for a doctor in Glen Innes. He drove a horse and buggy for the doctor and transported him on all his house calls.
  
  While in Brisbane visiting an aunt, he walked into a recruitment office on 18 September 1914 and walked out an enlisted soldier in the A.I.F. at the age of 20. It would be over 4 years before he returned to Glen Innes. His enlistment in Brisbane was within 2 days of his father in England and older brother in Africa enlisting. His father (a journalist), brother Leslie (a Lieutenant in 3rd Kings African Rifles) and M.J.P. (with supplies) all survived through the war.
  
  His skills as a driver were used; he served in Egypt, was briefly at Gallipoli (delivering stores) and then served in Northern France.
  His good knowledge and acquaintance with horses led to his placement in the 4th Divisional Transport. John had a familiarity with horses and told a story of horses (and men) bathing in the ocean prior to Gallipoli. He also recalled holding the horses trying to keep them calm in Northern France during strikes.
• Scope and Content
  Maurice John Pickrell's Will (required to fill out in France), 1917
  Instructions for Officers and Men Proceeding on Leave [2 pages], 1917
  Commonwealth of Australia - Department of Defence - final amount of pay received by John Pickrell at the end of World War I
  Small notes from inside pairs of knitted socks from the Australian Comforts Fund, including one note written by an 11 year old boy from Victoria
  Photocopy of letter written to Maurice John (Jack) Pickrell by John's mother after the Armistice, 14 November 1918
  Photocopy of photograph of Maurice John Pickrell in uniform
  Tramway tickets; postcard from the Army Veterinary Corps, 14 December 1916; Australian YMCA, London promotional card; invitation from The Lord Mayor to the Citizens of the City of Sydney at an Anzac Picnic, Killarney, Middle Harbour, 11 January 1919
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I papers
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1063942
• Name
  Australian Comforts Fund
  
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918.
  Transportation--Tickets
  Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)
  Wills.
  Soldiers--Australia--Correspondence.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Quick March! The Children of World War I - State Library of New South Wales (16 March - 13 October, 2019). Applies to: Handwritten note from inside pairs of knitted socks from the Australian Comforts Fund, written by an 11 year old boy from Victoria
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE483178

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