990187
- TitlePapers relating to World War 1, 1914-1922
- Call numberMLMSS 8647
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1914-1922 - Type of material
- Reference code990187
- Issue CopyDigitised : 2014
- Physical Description0.11 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript - printed; typed; carbon typescript;
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
A collection of various documents that came to the Mitchell Library in response to the Library's general appeal for the diaries and other papers of Australian servicemen and women who served in World War 1. - Scope and Content1. Handwritten letter in Turkish Arabic, n.d. [Includes envelope which is stamped Mersine 26 July 1915.]
2. Australian Red Cross Society, N.S.W. Division Application Circular sent to Miss L. Windeyer from E. Marie Irvine, Commandant. [Includes envelope.]
3. 6 day passes giving permission to Gunner G.K Townshend, 2nd Australian Field Artillery, to leave Amiens and proceed to St. Omer, Cassel and Sailly, April 1917-October 1918. [Includes handwritten single sheet of diary entries for 19-28 July, 19--?]
4. Biographical information on: (i) Sergeant H. E. Bull, written by his mother Mrs S. Kelaher; a typed letter to Mrs Kelaher from the Australian Imperial Force Base Records Office, 21 January 1918, and a typed description of the events surrounding Sergeant Bull’s death in 1917; (ii) Trooper Herbert Langley Newell, 5th Light Horse Queensland, 6th Reinforcements; (iii) Lieutenant John Campbell Noates, 4th Australian Infantry Battalion.
5. United States Government Thrift card; includes a Thrift Stamp of US 25 cents.
6. United States of America Individual Seaman’s Application for food supplies, on board the Osterley, New York, 14 November 1918, for Assistant Purser Desmond Richardson.
7. Commonwealth of Australia Advice to Payee slip, made out to Mrs G. Connor, 2 September 1920.
8. Printed copy of a Letter from members of the 4th Battalion acknowledging tobacco sent by the 4th battalion Comforts Fund.
9. Blank A.I.F. Education Service form.
10. Printed report on the Measures taken to preclude the possibility of pollution of the Molonglo River in the Federal Territory, 6 May 1918.
11. Recruitment leaflets (i) New South Wales Recruiting Committee, 1917; (ii) Sportsmen’s Recruiting Campaign, 1917; (iii) Department of Defence, Melbourne, 1916.
12. Leaflet titled ‘Australia’s demands. “Germany must pay”’.
13. Leaflets for the “Anti-shouting campaign’, National Council of Women of N.S.W. Includes a blank petition form.
14. Documents relating to the Commonwealth Electoral (Wartime) Act 1917.
15. Leaflets relating to the Organisation of British Communities in Foreign Countries, published by The British League of Britons Abroad.
16. Documents relating to the Commonwealth Second War Loan, 1916-1918.
17. Australian Labor Party, New South Wales Branch Conference. Peace Proposal preamble.
18. Leaflet advertising the second day of Prayer for the Empire, 11 February 1918, Universal Hall, Sydney.
19. Fund raising leaflet from the Returned Soldiers Association of New South Wales for the Anzac Day Memorial Fund, 5 May 1916.
20. Reminder from the Presbyterian Church of Australia, New South Wales of the Day of Intercession, to be held on 3 January 1915 across the Commonwealth.
21. Form letter from B. Phillips, merchant tailors, Sydney, to returned servicemen. The letter includes a coupon for ten shillings towards the cost of new suit.
22. Printed pamphlet on 'Perpetual Peace and a World Federation' by C. P. W. Longdill, Auckland, New Zealand, 11 May 1918.
23. Document from the Premier’s Office, Sydney, 13 March 1919, relating to an Honor Roll for men from Parliament House who enlisted in the war.
24. Carbon copy of a typed letter from W. H. Birdwood, 23 October 1917, France, to Pritchard on his receiving the Military Cross. The medal was in recognition of Pritchard’s bravery during the operation at Polygon Wood, France, on the 26 September 1917.
25. Copy of an article by Stanley F. Allen, September 1916, on conscription. Includes a response written by Charles E. James, Stanmore, 16 October 1916.
26. Pamphlet printed for the Ceremony for the unveiling of the Roll of Honour of the Highland Society of New South Wales, 19 May 1922.
27. Pamphlet printed for the Ceremony for the unveiling of the Roll of Honour of University soldiers who have fallen, University of Sydney, 11 October 1919.
28. Copy of the speech during the unveiling of the Honour Roll for the Department of Audit, Sydney, 8 September 1919.
29. Typed letter from Thomas Joseph Ryan, Premier of Queensland, 5 April 1917, to A. G. Stephens, Sydney, accompanying a draft article Ryan wrote for an unnamed publication. Also includes newspaper cuttings of 1916 and 1917 cablegrams from the Premier of Queensland to the Agent-General in London.
30. German death card, recording the death of Soldier John Turner, 30th Battalion, 17 August 1916. Inscription on the back in pencil reads “Original German death card…….Procured by Captain Mills for the Red Cross”. 31 March 1920.
31. Ephemera relating to the A.I.F. Memorial Day, 2 August 1918.
32. Printed invitations to: (i) A lunch by Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the A.I.F., 4 July 1919, at the A.I.F. and War Chest Club, London; (ii) a Garden Fete and Sale of Work in aid of The Blue Cross Fund, May 9th, Centennial Park, Sydney. The invitation is addressed to the Misses Windeyer; (iii) the Opening Ceremony of the Australian Red Cross Day, Exhibition of War Trophies, Sydney, 23 April 1918. The invitation is addressed to Ms Wright; (iv) Lady’s ticket to the First Annual Public meeting of the New South Wales Division of the Red Cross Society in Australia, 7 December 1914, Sydney Town Hall.
33. Handwritten document explaining the production of 'The Rising Sun', a journal of the A.I.F., France, written in the field by Captain Charles Bean.
34. Printed leaflets relating to the Diggers' Loan, 1921.
35. Letter from Private Eric W. Green, 5022, 1 April.
36. Letter to Premier's Department, ca. 1918
37. Receipt and letter relating to T.S.S. Ascanius, 16 Nov. 1922
38. Newscutting "Returning soldiers arriving today"
39. Equipment list for 17th Ammunition Sub-Park lorry - Language
- Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed: Applies to those documents where the author has been deceased for more than 50 years
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - General note
1. Donated by Mr. Hyman, May 1920
5 and 6. Donated by Spear, 1920
7. Donated by Mrs. O’Connor, September 1920
8. Donated by M.F., August 1924
9. Donated Commonwealth Government, 13 April 1920
13. Donated by Windeyer, June 1917.
16. Donated by the Secretary of the Australia Day Fund, 24 December 1919.
27. Donated by Mr. Anderson, 3 March 1920
32. (i) Presented by Sergeant Watson F. Samson, 25 August 1919.
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