The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Correspondence with sister `Nan', mentions family news, training camp in Puckapunyal, troopship,and sight-seeing in Egypt and Palestine. Includes lettercards sent while a prisoner of war in Germany, hardly mentions illness or hardship although Private MacDougal dies there in February 1945. Also includes list of POW parcels sent by sister, newspaper cuttings, information regarding grave site, and letters of sympathy written to sister. Cheerful nature of correspondence suggests a desire to spare family from the harsher realities of war.
Letters to family describe service in Egypt and Palestine with 6 Squadron, 2nd Remount Unit and AIF Canteen, ANZAC Mounted Division. Mentions duties, mail, sightseeing and home news. Includes narrativ
Papers of Lt Dakin who was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme in 1917. The collection includes correspondence with his family describing leave activities, training and family matters, officia
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX48471 Private Sidney Russell Core, 2/18 Battalion, prisoner of war, 1941-1946. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection includes nine letters Core wrote to
Collection of 130 picture postcards sent by 1958 Private Charles Reckenberg (46 Battalion) to his wife and other family members during the First World War. His correspondence covers his time in Wilts
Collection includes service records, transcripts of oral history tape recorded in 1983, prisoner of war diary and lettercards, telegrams and correspondence between Sergeant Heckendorf, his family and
Papers of Gunner Bert Atkins of 3rd Training Battalion, 10th Reinforcements, 12th Bn; 45th Battery, 12th Brigade; and No 1 Battery, RBAA; and Private Ern Atkins of 5th Battalion. Letters and postcards