• Title
  Charles William Erskine Smith, letters and photographic postcards to family members, 1916-ca 1950
• Creator
  Charles William Erskine Smith, 1897-1986
• Call number
  MLMSS 9759/Box 1X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1916-ca 1950
• Type of material
  Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records
• Reference code
  1000022
• Physical Description
  0.16 metres of textual material, 4 photographic postcards (1 outsize box) - manuscript; black & white
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Charles William Erskine Smith was born in South Grafton, New South Wales on February 11, 1897. In August 1915 at the age of 18 he enlisted at Victoria Barracks, Sydney. He was placed in the 13th Battalion, Australian Expeditionary Force. He trained in Egypt but did not fight at Gallipoli. He was eventually sent to France where in August 1916 he was wounded and evacuated to England and then returned to Sydney where he was discharged due to medical unfitness.
  
  Reference: Library correspondence file.
• Collection history
  By descent.
• Scope and Content
  Comprises 5 letters written by Charles William Erskine Smith to his mother, and 4 postcards of soldiers and ex-servicemen.
  
  Letter, dated March 10, 1916, 13th Rein, 13th Batt, 4th Brigade, Zeitoun, Egypt. Addressed to 'Dear Mum'. Letterhead of the Young Men's Christian Association with H.M. Force in Egypt. Only 1 page of letter.
  
  Letter, dated July 28, 1916, Somewhere in France. Addressed to 'Dear Mother', from 'Your loving son Erk'.
  
  Letter, dated December 29, 1916, A5 ward, 3rd Aus Aux Hosp, Dartford, London. Addressed to 'Dear Mother', from 'Your loving son Erk'.
  
  Letter, dated January 13, 1917, A5 ward, 3rd Aus Aux Hosp, Dartford, Kent. Addressed to 'Dear Mother', from 'Your loving son Erk'. On letterhead of Australian Branch B.R.C.S.
  
  Letter, dated January 19, 1917, A5 ward, 3rd Aus Aux Hosp, Dartford, Kent. Addressed to 'Dear Mother', from 'Your loving son Erk'. On letterhead of Australian Branch B.R.C.S.
  
  1 photographic postcard of wounded soldiers. Charles Smith indicated as 'Dad'. Inscription on verso, dated November 26, 1916, addressed to 'Dear Aunty', from 'Your loving nephew Erk'.
  
  1 photographic postcard of returned soldiers, possibly preparing for an Anzac March, ca 1950.
  
  2 photographic postcards of possibly an Anzac Day March. The images are taken in Orient Street, Bateman's Bay, ca 1935. Images show the Annetts Grocery Store and the Batemans Bay Talkies Theatre.
  
  Reference:
  Cinema and Audience Research Project
  http://caarp.edu.au (accessed February 1, 2016)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Photographs created before 1955
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Letters
  Research & study copies allowed:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Name
  Australia. Army. Australian Auxiliary Hospital, 3rd
  Smith, Charles William Erskine, 1897-1986
  Australia. Army. Battalion, 13th
  
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918.
  Marching.
  Soldiers--Australia--Correspondence.
  
• Topic
  reunions
  soldiers
  returned servicepeople
  military parades
  
• Place
  Batemans Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8867419

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