Harry Mann memoirs, 1892-1979, mainly relating to life at sea and on the Edie Creek goldfields, East New Guinea, with miscellaneous material, ca. 1926-1971

MLMSS 3628
SAFE/MLMSS 3628/Box 2/Items 21-22 (Safe 3/128)

fonds

1892-1979

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings

913299

2 boxes of textual material - typescript, printed

Harry Mann first went to sea in 1908 when he joined the sailing ship Armadale as a deck boy on a voyage from England to Australia. In 1926 he went to work on the Edie Creek goldfields, East New Guinea and, after some time in the Solomon Islands, returned to Australia in ca. 1938

BOX 1
Items 1-15
a. Memoirs, 1892-1919, relating to schooling at London Orphan School, life at sea on the sailing ships, Armadale, Deckmont and Inverurie, first years in Australia and work on the transport ships H.M.S. Barunga, Runic and Boonah during World War I

BOX 2
Items 16-22
Memoirs, 1919-1979, relating to the Edie Creek goldfields, East New Guinea, a position as plantation manager in the Solomon Islands and subsequent life in Australia

Item 23
b. Letters received, 1928-1971
c. Papers, including miner's rights and recruiter's licences, 1926-1929
d. Newscuttings, ca. 1926
e. Printed material, no date

This collection includes pictorial material at Pic.Acc.4603 in Pic. Source File

Partly restricted: Applies to memoirs at SAFE/MLMSS 3628/Box 2/Items 21-22 (Safe 3/128)

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (1-318C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Keyword subject:
Orphanages--England--London
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries