Ida Rumery papers and appreciation board

MLMSS 12018
ML 1616

fonds

1917-1921

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9669922

0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder)
Framed photographic collage - 66cm x 56cm (framed)

Comprises WWI correspondence and ephemera including 12 original letters from soldiers on Active Service Abroad, 1917-1919; a Post Card thank you note from the Sock Fund, 6 May 1918; New South Wales Division of the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Membership Tickets, 1918-1919; Australian Red Cross Society Membership ticket,1921 and a France's Day Sports Committee ribbon, Riverstone, 18 August 1917

A glass and framed photographic souvenir collage comprising photographs from the Returned Soldiers of the Riverstone District to Miss Ida Rumery in appreciation of voluntary services rendered during and on return from the Great War, 1914-1919. Produced by Ernest Griffin and believed to one of 34 manufactured (ML 1616)

Includes some background information, images of material and typed transcripts of correspondence prepared by the donor

List of correspondents:

On behalf of Mary Drummond for the Sock Fund at 'Theulda', Neutral Bay, 6 May 1918

Private Harry Lewis, service number 2401, 1917
Herbert Davis, 15 June 1918
Private Herbert James Rimmington, Service number 643, 2 July 1918
Private Ernest Edward James Brooks, Service number. 4069, 4 July 1918
Corporal William Stewart Mackay, Service Number 7509, 4 July 1918
Private William H. (Hugh) Gilmour, Service number 54676, 30 July 1918
Sapper Edward C. (Claude) Gibson, Service number 16452, 2 August 1918
Sapper William Nathaniel Hibberd, Service number 18944, 8 September 1918, 18 December 1918, 9 March 1919
Major Frederick Charles Seaborn, Service number 60530, February and 29 June 1919

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