The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Diaries describe voyage to England, life at Salisbury Plains, active service in France and capture at Dernancourt. Prisoner of war diary details experiences at several camps, work, church services and deaths of prisoners. Released after the armistice, McPhee then assists in the YMCA hut at Weymouth until his return to Australia. (See also PR00085).
Diaries cover service with YMCA in Melbourne and Darwin. Describes provision of facilities for games, reading and writing, concerts etc. Also describes Japanese air raids, a mobile refrigerated unit u
Diaries describe active service as a machine gunner at Gallipoli, and later as an artilleryman on the Western Front. Includes an original 1917 diary and a post war typescript of experiences.
Diaries with detailed entries describing sea voyage, training in Egypt and active service on Western Front. Comments vividly on fighting in numerous battles, the mud and freezing conditions during the
Collection relating to the First World War service of 17319 Sapper Arthur Wilson, 1st Divisional Signal Company. Collection consists of four original hand-written diaries by Sapper Wilson covering th
Collection relating to the First World War service of 17319 Sapper Arthur Wilson, 1st Divisional Signal Company. Collection consists of two volumes of typescript diaries written by Sapper Wilson cove
Papers of No. 451 Sergeant Labracht Fredwick E. Tesch (1st Battalion), comprising two original personal diaries (for 1916 and 1919) and two hand written notebooks on signalling. The 1916 diary begins