• Title
  Box 9 Item 01: Charles Bathersby letters, 1915
• Call number
  MLMSS 9264/Box 9/Item 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1915
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials
• Reference code
  1087228
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript, printed
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Charles Bathersby, a boundary rider of Inverell, N.S.W., enlisted aged 28, 18 Jan.1915, embarked from Sydney on HMAT A29 Suevic, June 1915 and served with the 1st and 12th Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli, Sept. 1915. He was admitted to hospital in Alexandria with enteric fever Nov. 1915. He returned to Australia on H.T. Ulysses for 3 months change, Jan. 1916 and was discharged Aug. 1916
• Scope and Content
  Seven letters, a post card and a Christmas card, written to his brother Edward (Ted) and Grace Bathersby, while at sea, from Gallipoli, Oct. 1915, from hospital in Alexandria and while convalescing at Port Said, Dec. 1915
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D26100/a9844.html
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1094464
• Name
  Suevic (Troopship)
  Ulysses (ship)
  Australia. Army. Light Horse Regiment, 1st
  Australia. Army. Light Horse Regiment, 12th
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE467286

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