Major H.P. (Pat) Boland papers mainly concerning the Royal New South Wales Regiment, 1870-2005

MLMSS 9264
R 2137
LR 104
PXA 1953

fonds

1870-2005

Textual Records, Objects, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

881208

1 album (31 photographs) - 10 x 15 cm
1 badge - metal - 2.5 x 2.5 cm
2 buttons - gilt metal - 2 x 2 cm
2.10 metres of textual records (14 boxes)
1 flag - silk? - 68 x 76 cm

Major H.P. Boland was born in 1921. In 1940 he enlisted in the 24th Australian Light Horse (Gwydir) Regiment. In 1944 he was transferred to 2/7th Australian Infantry Battalion and saw active service in the Aitape-Wewak campaign, 1944-45. After the war he was commissioned in the CMF and was promoted to Major in 1957. In 1962 he was appointed Historian of the Royal New South Wales Regiment (RNSWR) by the Regimental Council. In civilian life he worked as a building surveyor and as part time curator at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, specialising in Numismatics. In 1977 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study Numismatics in British museums.

Reference:
'Waratah Rifleman', Vol. 2, No. 2, Dec. 1993

SUBJECT FILES
BOX 1
17th Battalion, 1999
Papers on the Army Reserve, 2005
Bookplates, 1996
Est. ALH (Australian Light Horse) Regiment, 1933
American Civil War Studies ‘Round Table’ NSW, 2001
Outline History of Australian Army, 1995
Designated Battalions/Colour Patches, 1995
Handicapped Children’s Fund, 1987
6th Division, 1940, 1990-1991
Stationary
Battle Honour ‘Villers Bretonneux’, World War I, 1989-1994
Battle Honours World War 2, 1994-1996
17 RNSWR Freedom of Entry Parades, 1981-1996
Battle Honours of the Australian Army
RNSWR – General Research, 1980s-1990s
Briefs on matters concerning the RNSWR, 1989-1990

BOX 2
Colour Patches, 1992-1995
RNSWR History Format, 1990s
General Interest re RNSW, 1980s-1990s
RAA (Royal Australian Artillery), Freedom of Entry Parades, 1990-1991
Articles –Early Australian Army, 1991-1994
Research
Regimental Affairs Committee – RNSWR, 1979
Badges
RNSWR - Allied Regiments, 1980s-1990s
RNSWR – Outline History
RNSWR – VCs (Roll of RNSWR Victoria Cross winners)

BOX 3
‘Waratah Rifleman’, 1992-1994
18th Battalion Colours, 1990
Illustrations (Australian Light Horse), 1981, 1995-1996
RNSWR Events, 1989-1996
Handbook Part 2, 1993
4th Infantry Battalion RNSWR- History, 1960s-1990s
17th Battalion RNSWR Parts 1 &2, 1920s-1990s
19th Battalion RNSWR, 1970s-1995
RNSWR – Active Battalions, 1980s

BOX 4
41st Battalion RNSWR, 1969-1993
1st/19th Battalion, RNSWR, 1972-1996
The Gettysburg Conference papers, 2001
Israel- Remembrance Day (Mountwitten), 2000-2003
Colours, 1925-1993
Battle Honours Parts 1 & 2, 1920s-1998

BOX 5
RNSWR - Inactive Business, 1986-2003
Linking 4/3 and 2/17 RNSWR, 1987-1989
Lineages post 1960
Reorganisations 1918-1921
Colonial Forces in Newcastle
Commonwealth Defence Act 1903
Dress Regulations late Colonial Era
Engineers, 1977
Rules of Volunteer Rifle Companies 1870
Pre Colonial and Early Colonial plus NSW Corps
History Drafts Filing (General Hutton)
‘An Outline Structure Vol. 1 The Development of Infantry in Colonial and Early NSW 1788-1904’, by H.P. Boland, 2004
RNSWR History Correspondence, 1983-1993
RNSWR Council Minutes, 1983-1995

BOX 6
Eureka Stockade 1854. Primary Police Reports
Defences of NSW Reports by Jervois, Schaw, & Bevan Edwards, 1877, 1887, 1889
‘Lineage of Infantry in NSW’ by J.K.H, 2002
‘Military Forces of the Colony’, 1883-1904
Book Launch ‘Tales of Valour from the RNSWR’ by Gordon Maitland, 1992-1993
RNSWR Handbook, 1992
1st Battalion RNSWR, 1959-1991
2nd Battalion RNSWR, 1966-1993
3rd Battalion RNSWR, 1981-1988
Major J.H. Crummer 28th Regiment of Foot

BOX 7
‘Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa War’, 1908, 1911
Colonial and Early Federal Colours
Establishments of Volunteer Infantry Corps 1854-1900
Volunteer Corps Act 1867
Archives Office of NSW Index Colonial Military Matters
Mobilisation Studies & Establishments, 1939, 1940, ca. 1980
Draft History of 2nd Battalion, RNSWR, 1987
17/18 Infantry Battalion Standing Orders

BOX 8
Loyal associations 1800-1810. Early Proposals for a Colonial Militia in NSW
RNSWR History Project Committee, 1996-2000
Lineage Charts of Antecedent Units of the RNSWR by John Haken, 1990s

BOX 9
NSW Soudan Contingent 1885.
‘Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Military Service of NSW’, 1892.
‘Stand To’ May-June 1963.
Churchill Fellowship Report, 1977-1978.
‘The Second World War 1939-45. The Final New Guinea Campaign 1944-45’. An assignment by Major Boland’s granddaughter, Amelia, using his military memorabilia. The memorabilia (realia) and a photograph album have been removed and transferred to new locations (see below for details). The assignment also contains two US Army War Department Maps of Aitape East and Seno East; on the reverse of the latter is a diagram of a "Fuze M 52".

WORLD WAR I MATERIAL
Seven letters, a post card and a Christmas card from Charles Bathersby, 12th Light Horse Regiment, to Edward (Ted) and Grace Bathersby, written from Egypt and Gallipoli, 1915.
‘Souvenir 14th Australian Field Ambulance’ card and Christmas card sent by Edgar Upton to A. Upton, 1918-1919.
Volume containing typescript copies of citations for military decorations awarded to Australian soldiers during World War I.

'THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFANTRY IN COLONIAL AND EARLY FEDERAL NSW 1788-1904' by Major H.P. Boland
BOX 10
Chs. 1-8, Chs 9-18 & Ch2 19-22.

BOX 11
Conclusion of Vol. 1, Chs. 23-29 & Chs 31-53.

BOX 12
Synopsis
Outline Structure

BOX 13
Chs. 1-3. Original draft
Chs 5-11'. Original Draft.
Chs 12-16. Original draft.

BOX 14
'Colonial Volunteers at War 1863-1902'. (Waikato, Sudan & China). Original draft.
'Colonial Volunteers at War' 1863-1902. NSW Volunteers to the Second South African (Boer) War 1899-1902'. Original draft

REALIA
R 2137
Item 1. Universal type Japanese officer's helmet star, 51 Division Imperial Japanese Army, 1945.
Item 2. Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces (Marines) officer’s gilt button, 1945.
Item 3. Imperial Japanese Navy officer’s gilt button, 1945.
Item 4. Japanese soldier’s pay book [?], 1945

LR 104
Personal flag of Japanese soldier W/O Maeda Mitsuhara signed by friends, family & colleagues and carried as a personal charm & rallying point marker. Taken in the clearance of Maprik villages, New Guinea, April 1945 by a platoon of 2/7th Infantry Battalion, AIF, whose members also signed the flag.

PHOTOGRAPHS
PXA 1953
Album of photographs documenting operations of 2/7th Infantry Battalion, AIF, in New Guinea, Feb.-Oct. 1945.

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