Series 04: Francis McGarry relics, ca. 1907-1955

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series

ca. 1907-1955

Objects, Graphic Materials, Ephemera

825645

Approximately 72 objects (prayer books, reading glasses, pipes, money purse, pencils, razors, watches, cigarette lighter & holder, concert programs, medals, whistles, artefacts, post cards, patches, identify discs, photographs, leave passes, letters) (1 box)

1. War (1914-1918) articles
Certificate of discharge from the A.I.F; War badges for uniform; Colour patches; Two identification discs; Returned soldier’s badge; Two war medals (in cardboard box); War mirror; Wristlet watch used by Frank on the battlefields of France; Framed photograph of Frank with another solider boarding the Euripides on the 31/10/1917, age 20; Postcards (19) sent home during the 1914-18 war; Leave passes; Notice to Frank’s mother from the military station his arrival date home after the war ended; Holy pictures found by Frank on the battle field of France; War medals (2) British War Medal 1914-1918', silver and bronze, circular medal with 36mm diameter & 'Victory Medal 1914-1919', bronze, circular medal with suspension ring

2. Religious articles and prayer books
Crucifixes (2), 1 brass and 1 wooden and metal stations of the cross; First communion book and communion day resolutions & remembrance of first communion card, 15th August 1907, Every boy’s manual for the serving of mass, Book title `My Missal’ and Holy pictures, ; Small leather case in which is written `In case of accident send for a Priest’; small leather purse with rosary beads; Sacred heart badges (2), with St Francis of Assisi Scapulars and cords, Rose petal (St Therese the little flower)

3. Miscellaneous items
Leather money purse, cigarette lighter & holder, white clay smoking pipe given to him by Father Leen, 3 watches and chain; 1 whistle, 2 razors, 1 pencil, 3 Handkerchiefs. These items were all were used during mission days, N.T. 1935-44 and with the Native Affairs Dept.
Aboriginal artefacts from the Arunta Tribe, N.T. 1935-48); 2 pairs of glasses (reading); Sleeve links given to him by his twin sister Dorothy; Holy Communion Card 1907; Franks’s Prayer; Programs and paper cuttings concerning Frank at his Singing Teacher’s recitals & the Lepers at Little Bay, Sydney & Remembrance

Notes: Short history of Francis (Frank) McGarry of Manly, NSW, Australia and lay missionary MSC Northern Territory' [possibly compiled by Frank O'Grady]