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Papers of Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Robert Claud Vivian Humphrey covering his army career over 1915-1944. He first joined 3rd Battalion in the First World War and served in France, later transferring to the Royal Australian Corps of Signals (from 1934) and the Merchant Navy (from June 1944), before being lost in action on 16 July 1944. His Signals Corps posts included the Signal Training Depots (Greta and Tamworth), 2nd Signal Training Battalion (AWAS) and the Army School of Signals (Casula). The collection comprises (i) officers' school lecture notes, particularly concerning musketry and rifle fire (1916) (ii) small sketchbook with battle, camp and French rural scenes and captions in English and French (1918) (iii) 'A Section Wireless Diagram', 7th Australian Division (iv) promotion certificates, official records and news clippings regarding Lt Col Humphrey's signals career (1934-42) (v) programs, invitations and other souvenirs, (vi) notebook of lectures given by Major J.E. Lee at Sydney's Victoria Barracks in 1937.
NX119988 Major (Maj, later Lieutenant Colonel) Robert Claud Vivian Humphery signalling with a heliograph from Tamworth lookout to Warral Siding, about ten miles away. Maj Humphery served as 6518 Corpo
PHOTOCOPIED LETTERS FROM GALLIPOLI AND FILE CONTAINING PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE SERVICE CAREER OF LT COL VERNON
Collection relating to the Second World War service of WX3306, Lieutenant-Colonel Eileen Veronica Joubert (nee Kenny), 2/11 Australian General Hospital (Middle East), Australia, 1944-1946. Collectio
Collections of letters written home by Lt Harry Attwood of 7 Battalion, between 18 August 1915 and 15 September 1917. In them he mentions censorship and his work as a military policeman in Cairo. H
Collection relating to VX22 Lieutenant Colonel (Lt-Col) Geoffrey Hutton Brock, 2/7 Battalion. Lt-Col Brock served in Greece and the Middle East, where he was promoted to the rank of Major and awarded
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant (Lt) Kenneth Hamlyn McConnel, 1st Battalion AIF. Includes Lt McConnel's original handwritten diary kept from March to August 1916 which