1001474
- Title‘Hitherto’, reminiscences of early life by Catherine Mackerras, ca. 1900-1916
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- Call numberMLMSS 9852/Box 1X
- Level of descriptionfonds
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ca. 1900-1916 - Type of material
- Reference code1001474
- Physical Description0.10 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - typescript with manuscript annotations
- Scope and ContentDescribes growing up in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the household’s move from Bayswater Road to Macquarie Street, schooling in Sydney, her gradual conversion to Catholicism, departure for France on the Osterley in 1910, an extended stay in Edinburgh with her aunts and the family’s move to Rose Bay on their return from Europe. Describes the impact of the death of her uncle Normand MacLaurin at Gallipoli Apr. 1915 which prompted her father’s volunteering for medical duties with the R.A.M.C., the family’s voyage to England via the Suez and France on troopship Morea, and ends with recollections of family life and schooling in war time England, and return to Sydney on the Osterley Dec. 1916
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