• Title
  Claude Stanley Smith letters to his sister Gwyn Smith, 1914-1915, and two issues of newsletter Kangaroo published on board the troopship Afric, 1914
• Creator
  Claude Stanley Smith
• Call number
  MLMSS 9783/Folder 1X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1914-1915
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1323905
• Physical Description
  0.57 metres of textual material (1 outsize folder)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Private Claude Stanley Smith, a manufacturer's agent of Petersham, New South Wales, was born in Newcastle. He enlisted 24 Aug. 1914 aged 28, and embarked on board Transport A19 Afric with the First Expeditionary Force from Sydney on 18 Oct. 1914. He served in Gallipoli with 1st Infantry Brigade, 26 Apr. 1915, was wounded on 9 Aug. 1915, and hospitalised with influenza in England. He married Marjorie Knaggs, April 1917 and returned to Australia on the Balmoral Castle, 2 Dec. 1918. He died in 1947.
  
  The first issue of 'The Kangaroo: Out of His Element' was published in October 1914. The last marine issue was published in November 1914.
  
  Reference:
  State Library of NSW catalogue, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au (accessed 29 March, 2016)
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Letter from Smith to his sister, October 1914. The letter is written on the back of the first issue of 'The Kangaroo: Out of His Element', a newsletter published on board the troopship 'Afric'. The newsletter is printed on cloth in black ink.
  
  2. Another issue of 'The Kangaroo; Out of His Element', vol. 1, no. 23, 28 November 1914, printed on cloth in red ink.
  
  3. Typed transcript of a letter from Smith to his sister, written from Gallipoli, 15 June 1915. Transcribed by his youngest daughter, Elaine Mayer, 2014-2015. Original letter not included.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Published before 1955 - applies to issues of newsletter Kangaroo
  Copyright status:: In copyright - applies to letters
  Research & study copies allowed: Applies to material in which the author has been deceased for more than 50 years
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Name
  Afric (troopship)
  
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Australia--Periodicals
  World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula.
  World War, 1914-1918--Correspondence, Australian.
  Soldiers--Australia--Correspondence.
  
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  IE8979956

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