Series 1: Correspondence

MLMSS 12128/Boxes 1-3

series

1934-1945

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9679643

0.48 metres of textual material (3 boxes) includes photographs

Correspondence, mostly addressed to Tim (Margaret) from Breeze (Victor), as they referred to each other

Box 1

Folder 1
Letter and telegram from Victor to Margaret, 1934
Letters from Sydney University Regiment camp, Liverpool, ca. 1937
Notes that accompanied parcels for anniversaries, incomplete letters

Folder 2
Letters to Brigadier General Windeyer from Lord and Lady Mountbatten, 1945

Folder 3
Letters from Victor Windeyer to his mother, 1941-1943

Folder 4
Letter from Jack Creber of the 2/17 Battalion
Letter from Victor to Norman Cowper discussing his withdrawal from the 1946 election for the seat of Parramatta; Letter from father-in-law Robert Vicars, 1940

Folder 5
Letters from Victor to Margaret, August – December 1940
Letters from Victor to his son, Jim, 6, 25 December 1940

Folder 6
Letters from Victor to Margaret, January – March 1941
Letter from Victor to his Grandfather, February 1941

Folder 7
Letters from Victor to Margaret, April – June 1941
Letter from Major General Morshead to Commanding Officer 2/48 Battalion complimenting the Battalion for their efforts at Tobruk, in the week preceding 19 April 1941
Press cutting, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 April 1941
Letter from Victor to his son, Jim, 20 May 1941

Folder 8
Letters from Victor to Margaret, July – December 1941
(Victor’s brother Frank was wounded in battle 18 October and died of his wounds on 21 October 1941. He was buried at Alexandria on 8 November 1941)
Several letters from Victor Windeyer to his mother, November 1941

Folder 9
Letters from Victor to Margaret, January – June 1942
(Promoted to Brigadier- General January 1942, Awarded Distinguished Service Order 14 April 1942)

Box 2

Folder 1
Letters from Victor to Margaret, July - December 1942
(Battle of El Alamein, 23 October—11 November 1942)
Typed copy of letter from General Bernard Montgomery to the Eighth Army 23 October 1942
Typed copy of letter from General Oliver Leese 10 to the Ninth Australian Division 10 November 1942
Cover page The Palestine Post, 25 December 1942

Folder 2
Letters from Victor to Margaret, January, April, May 1943

Folder 3
Letters from Victor to Margaret, June – December 1943

Folder 4
Letters from Victor to Margaret, January - February, May - June 1944

Folder 5
Letters from Victor to Margaret, July – September 1944
Letter from Victor to his son Jim, August 1944
Letter from The Law Book Company of Australasia, July 1944

Box 3

Folder 1
Letter from Victor to Margaret, October to December 1944
Telegram to Victor’s Mother, November 1944

Folder 2
Letters from Victor to Margaret, January – March 1945

Folder 3
Letters from Victor to Margaret, April - June 1945

Folder 4
Letters from Victor to Margaret, July - September 1945

Folder 5
Letters from Victor to Margaret, October - December 1945

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