423112
- TitleSilas diary, 1914-1916 / Ellis Silas
- Creator
- Call numberMLMSS 1840
- Level of descriptionsub-fonds
- Date
1914-1916 - Type of material
- Reference code423112
- Issue CopyDigitised : 2014
- Physical Description0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder) - Carbon typescript and manuscript
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Ellis Silas (1885-1972), painter and illustrator, sailed from London to Australia in 1907 and settled in Perth, Western Australia. He enlisted in October 1914 at the age of 30 and was made a private in the 16th Battalion, C Company. He trained as a signaller and embarked for Egypt from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on 22 December 1914. His unit landed at Gallipoli on the evening of the 25 April 1915 where he served at Pope's Hill, Quinn's Post and Bloody Angle until 28 May 1915 when he was evacuated to Egypt suffering from shell shock and fever - Scope and ContentRevised (in 1916) version of diary written Aug. 1914-May 1915. Describes training at Blackboy Hill, Western Australia and Williamstown, Victoria, voyage to Egypt on the Ceramic, Dec. 1914-Feb. 1915, experiences in Egypt, Feb.-Apr. 1915, landing at Gallipoli and fighting on the peninsula, Apr.-May 1915, voyage to Alexandria on a hospital ship and treatment in hospital in Heliopolis
- Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder - Finding AidsRead the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2011/D12154/a3262.htm
- General note
Microfilm copy available at CY 4437, frames 1-89
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
Originally titled: Diary of an Anzac
Digital order no:Album ID : 1064052 - Name
- Subject
- Exhibited in
Life Interrupted: Personal Diaries from World War I - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 21 September, 2014) - Open Rosetta viewer
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