Eustace Emile (Dick) Dietsch papers, 1956, 1972

MLMSS 9959

fonds

1956, 1972

1009114

0.16 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript, typescript, printed

In 1956, Eustace Emile (Dick) Dietsch, a plumber, was a spectator at the Melbourne Olympic Games. He travelled from Sydney to Melbourne on the new Sydney-Melbourne Daylight Express train and returned to Sydney by air. In 1972 he travelled around Australia by car.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Papers relating to Dick Dietsch’s trip to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and his diary of a road trip around Australia in 1972. Also included are two photographs of Dietsch.

1. Manuscript diary entitled ‘Being the account of a trip to Melbourne for the XVIth Olympiad’, 30 November-9 December 1956
2. Typescript itinerary for Olympic Games trip, 1956
3. Sydney-Melbourne Daylight Expresses brochure and annotated TAA Flight Souvenir, ca. 1956
4. Official Melbourne Olympic Games programs (annotated) for fencing, athletics, boxing, hockey, wrestling, association football, cycling, swimming, gymnastics and the closing ceremony, 1956
5. Manuscript diary of a road trip around Australia, 14 April-18 October 1972
6. Two photographs of Eustace Emile Dietsch as a young man

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