File 1: Pockley family correspondence, photographs and other material, 1890s-2015

MLMSS 10374/Box 1X

file

1890s-2015

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings

9650105

0.43 metres of textual material (1 box), includes photographs

John Graham Antill Pockley, farmer and grazier of Yarran Springs, N.S.W. was born at St Leonards in 1891. After enlisting in the Army Medical Corps in July 1915 he embarked for England on the Orsova as a medical orderly. He returned to Australia in 1916 and after attending Officers Training School at Duntroon was commissioned as a lieutenant. In January 1917 he embarked on the Anchises. Pockley was serving with the 33rd Infantry Battalion in France when he was killed in action at Hangard Wood, near Villers Bretonneux on 30 March 1918. He had been shot in the stomach but refused to be carried back telling the stretcher bearers to take another wounded man in his place. He was survived by his wife Nancy née Sargood and a son, Brian Edmund Antill Pockley.
Reference:
Australian War Memorial, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1654178

Brian Colden Antill Pockley, medical practitioner, was born at North Sydney in 1890. In 1914 he was commissioned as a captain in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF). He took part in the first landing at Kabakaul in German New Guinea on 11 September 1914. During the advance towards an enemy wireless station, Able Seaman William Williams was shot in the stomach. After tending to Williams, Pockley gave his Red Cross armband to another naval serviceman so he could safely carry Williams to the rear. Shortly afterwards, Pockley was also wounded. Pockley and Williams were taken aboard HMAS Berrima, where they both died that afternoon. Pockley was the first Australian officer to be killed in action during World War I.
Reference:
Australian War Memorial, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10675788

Correspondence, photographs and other material from the family of Brian Edmund Antill Pockley (1916-1998). The collection also contains photographs of the Sargood, Watson, Danby and Parkes families and manuscript articles relating to the Pockley and Sargood families.

FOLDER 1
33 handwritten letters written from, to and about John Graham Antill Pockley, 21 June 1914-24 May 1968. A typescript list of letters and selected transcripts by Clare Cunnington, ca. 2015.

FOLDER 2
Leave pass belonging to John Graham Antill Pockley, 29 August 1916.

FOLDER 3
Family tree of Captain Robert F. Pockley and Selina Antill
Annotated manuscript of 'Families, houses, war and the finding of live: stories for all' / by Rodney Cavalier
Printed email from Rodney Cavalier regarding the Pockley, Sargood and Antill families, 29 June 2015
Clippings from 'Newsletter' regarding the Sargood family, June 2013 and April-May 2015
Annotated manuscript of 'The Pierces of York', November 2007

FOLDER 4
'Dr Brian Colden Antill Pockley'
3 photographs of Brian Colden Antill Pockley, August 1901-ca. 1905 / The Falk Studios, Sydney
News clipping regarding Brian Pockley’s death in 1914, Daily Telegraph, 29 December 1927
Copy of a handdrawn map showing where Brian Colden Antill Pockley was killed, 1914. The map was originally drawn by a captured German officer (see letter from Frank Pockley to John Graham Antill Pockley, 18 October 1914) in FOLDER 1
Bound copy of ‘Baptism of Fire: the story of Abel Seaman W.G.V. Williams and Captain B.C.A. Pockley’.

FOLDER 5
2 photographs of Brian Edmund Antill Pockley (1916-1998):
Aged one month with Nancy Antill Pockley (mother), 1916 / May Moore
Brian Edmund Antill Pockley, ca. 1917

FOLDER 6
'John Graham Antill Pockley'
4 photographs taken onboard troop ship, Sydney to Dover, ca. 1915-1917

FOLDER 7
Photograph of Phyllis Danby nee Pockley with children, Brian, Anthony and Mary, ca. 1923

FOLDER 8
2 photographs ca. 1900
Fred Sargood at Mill Hall
Marian and Nancy Sargood

FOLDER 9
7 photographs of John Graham Antill Pockley's property at Tullamore, New South Wales, ca. 1915

FOLDER 10
14 photographs of Brian Edmund Antill Pockley and his mother, Nancy Julia Antill Pockley, nee Sargood, 1917-1924. Includes views of Sussex Inlet, New South Wales.
1 album of 12 photographs "With best wishes Xmas 1918", includes photographs of Brian Edmund Antill Pockley, 1918

FOLDER 11
11 photographs of Ernest Watson, David and Elizabeth Ann(e), Daphne and Geraldine Watson and Brian Edmund Antill Pockley, ca. 1924-ca. 1946

FOLDER 12
2 photographs (duplicates) of the Parkes sisters, including Agnes Penrose Parkes, mother of Nancy Sargood Antill Pockley, ca. 1890s

FOLDER 13
9 photographs including portraits of Phyllis Danby nee Pockley and Nell Pockley nee Partridge, ca. 1890s-ca. 1940s, and a menu from Town Hall, Leek, 26 November 1937.

FOLDER 14
Photograph of John Graham Antill Pockley, 1896 / J. Hubert Newman, 314 George Street, Sydney

FOLDER 15
6 photographs of Dr Francis Antill Pockley (1857-1941). A family tree has been written on the verso of one photograph.

FOLDER 16
6 photographs including three of John Graham Antill Pockley, ca. 1914-1918, one of Nancy Sargood and one of Armidale Camp, 1916

LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS
Sydney Church of England Grammar School Football Team, including John Graham Antill Pockley, 1908
No. 7 Platoon, 3rd Officers Training School, Duntroon, July August 1916 / F. A. Oscars, Sutcliffe & Akers, Cromwell Bldgs, 366A Bourke St, Melbourne
First Hospital Ship A.I.F., Sydney 1915 / Kimbel

Original folder arrangement retained.

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Descriptions based on information provided by donor with amendments by cataloguer