The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to N242653 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Herbert Kirkman Bridge, whilst serving with the Australia Army in, before transferring to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in March 1943. Comprises an original handwritten memoir titled 'Dulacky', written by L/Cpl Bridge based on his personal diaries kept at the time, and written shortly after the events with which it deals. The memoir is 120 pages in length and deals with Bridge's service with the 3rd Battalion Australian Military Forces and the part the Battalion played in the Owen Stanleys and the Battle of the Kokoda Trail, September to December 1942. A second handwritten memoir titled 'The Third', also written by L/Cpl is included, which appears to be an initial draft of the 'Dulacky' memoir, with changes and annotations by the author. Physically added to the collection in November 2012 was an 80 page typed transcription of 'Dulacky'. This typescript was completed by in 2009 by Peter Bridge, the son of Herbert K. Bridge.
Memoir titled "Aviation medicine as remembered by a Typhoon pilot" (9 pages), written by Herbert Arthur Copeman, a doctor who trained and served in RAAF and RAF in Europe with 137 Squadron during 1941
Collection relating to service of 504 Private Henry Bridge, 2 Machine Gun Battalion, France, 1916-1918. Collection includes letters written home to family in England from training camp in Australia a
Collection relating to the First World War service of No 2190 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Douglas Herbert Harrison Morton, 9th Battalion AIF. Collection consists of one black soft covered exercise book in
Manuscript titled 'Dave's way: A POW Memoir' compiled by Cherie Lawton in 2014 from taped cassettes containing the oral memoirs of the wartime experience of VX64170 Driver David Herbert Clark. Driver
Collection relating to the Second World War Service of 430281 Flying Officer Vaughan Thomas Hilton. Collection consists of a 53-page memoir titled "Dare to Discover" written by Hilton, with a foreword
Collection relating to the service of Sapper Bede Lawrence Wall during the occupation of Japan. Collection consists of a memoir, with attachments, titled "A Young Soldier's Story : The Army of Occupat