The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the First World War service of Private (later Lieutenant) Gerald McHarg, London Scottish Regiment and Royal Field Artillery, France, 1914.
Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of a four-page letter by Private McHarg to his father, dated 25 November 1914. McHarg recounts his experience of fighting at the Battle of Messines with the London Scottish Regiment, describing the heavy shelling, advancing under great barrages of fire, and receiving shrapnel in his boot and equipment. He writes of a comrade being shot right next to him, digging trenches, firing into 'dark grey masses' of Germans and losing all his equipment during the battle.
Gerald McHarg was born in Melbourne in 1893. His father had established a business with offices in London and Melbourne, and at the outbreak of war Gerald McHarg was employed in the London office of his father's firm Brooks McGlashan and McHarg (a drapery or soft goods merchant). McHarg enlisted for service with the London Scottish Regiment, later becoming a lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. McHarg returned to Australia before the end of the war and married Linda Grace Neave in Melbourne in 1918. The pair likely met in England where Linda had been working as a nurse in a military hospital in Kent. After six months in Australia the couple returned to the United Kingdom and McHarg resumed his pre-war occupation. They remained in England for the next six years where their son, John Andrew, was born. In 1924 they returned to Australia and McHarg worked in the Melbourne branch of the family firm before they divorced in 1932. Gerald McHarg died in 1961 in Melbourne.
Collection relating to the First World War service of Captain David Gerald Evans MC, 8th Battalion AIF, Australia, Egypt, France and Belgium, 1914-1922. Collection consists of: - 1 typed transcript
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX111333 Lieutenant Gerald Pynt, Headquarters, Australian Army Service Corps, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, 1944. Wallet 1 of 1 –
Letter of a British Naval medical officer, Surgeon Lieutenant Gerald Sylvester Harvey, to his aunts in Ireland dated 30 April 1915. The letter, written on the battleship HMS "London", graphically desc
Collection relating to the Second World War service of TX4383 Gunner Gerald John McShane, Heavy Battery Rabaul, Second Australian Imperial Force, New Britain and Australia, 1942-1947. Wallet 1 of 1 –
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Frank Gerald Kellaway, MC, 22 Battalion AIF, Gallipoli, Egypt, France, Egypt, 1915-1916. Collection consists principally of around 70 letters written
Francis Gerald Anderson served with the 104th Howitzer Battery as Gunner (10230). Collection consists of: 1) a typed copy of his war diary that he seems to have transcribed in 1921. It is entitled "