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Title
Mercer papers, 9 December 1917-19 June 1919 / Harold Mercer
Creator
Harold Mercer, 1882-
Call number
MLMSS 1143
Level of description
sub-fonds
Date

9 December 1917-19 June 1919
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
422304
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Physical Description
0.05 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript, typescript, printed
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Corporal Harold Mercer, a journalist of Sydney, New South Wales, was born in Brisbane, Queensland and enlisted in Sydney 12 Apr. 1917 aged 35. He embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A74 Marathon, 10 May 1917 and served with the 1st Battalion in France. He returned to Australia on the Karoa, May 1919
Scope and Content
Diary describing the front near Caestre, duties with the Salvage Corps, and hospitalisation in London.
Includes poems and press contributions, published 1918-1919
Copying Conditions
Copyright status:: In copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
Finding Aids
Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2013/D14393/a3485.htm
General note

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I papers
Microfilm copy available at CY 4451
Digital order no:Album ID : 823811
Name
Australia. Army. Battalion, 1st
Marathon (ship)
Karoa (ship)
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
Soldiers--Australia.
World War, 1914-1918--Australia.

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