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Title
Letters to Mrs R. H. Caldwell, from her son Robert Douglas Caldwell and other soldiers, 1917-1919
Creator
R. H. Caldwell
Call number
MLMSS 5389
Level of description
fonds
Date

1917-1919
Type of material
Textual Records, Graphic Materials
Reference code
887468
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Physical Description
0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript, typescript
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Robert Douglas Caldwell , a jackeroo of Burwood, Sydney enlisted 19 Feb. 1917 aged 19 and served with the 2nd Battalion, 25th Reinforcement. He embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board H.M.A.T. A20 Hororata, 14 June 1917 and returned to Australia Jan. 1919
Frank Gordon Grange, a clerk of Newtown, Sydney embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A32 Themistocles, 12 May 1915 and served with the 17th Battalion, C Company. He was killed in action, 9 Oct. 1917 and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, altered to Military Medal.
Frank Bailey, a law clerk of Armidale, New South Wales embarked from Sydney on board H.M.A.T. A20 Hororata, 14 June 1917 and served with the 2nd Battalion, 25th Reinforcement. He returned to Australia 27 Sept. 1918
Scope and Content
Letters and 2 postcards from Robert (Bob) Caldwell, written at sea June 1917, from Durrington camp, Salisbury Aug. 1917, Sutton Veny camp Oct. 1917, from France Dec. 1917-Sept. 1918, from hospital in England, Oct. 1918 and at sea on board HMAT Kamala, 6 Feb. 1919.
Includes letter from Frank Gordon Grange, 17th Battalion, written from France 21 Feb. 1917, and letter from Frank Bailey to Mrs Caldwell expressing thanks to her son Bob for carrying him out wounded.
Copying Conditions
Copyright status:: In copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder<br>
Finding Aids
Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2014/D25050/a6787.html
Description source

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
General note

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters
This collection includes pictorial material at Pic.Acc.7011
Digital order no:Album ID : 1064089
Creator/Author/Artist
Caldwell, Robert Douglas
Bailey, Frank
Grange, Frank Gordon
Name
Hororata (ship)
Australia. Army. Battalion, 17th
Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921). Battalion, 2nd.
Kamala (ship)
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--France.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
Soldiers--Australia--Correspondence.
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