The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bound typescript memoirs (and original manuscript drafts) of No 802 Corporal Harry Andrew Still (31st Battalion) of Bendigo, Victoria describing his First World War service. After training at Broadmeadows, he travelled to Egypt on the SS Wandilla (A62), and underwent further training at Heliopolis and Serapeum. He crossed to France in June 1916, and his memoirs describe him going into the front line in the Armentieres area, initially at Bois Grenier, and then participating in raids on the German trench lines near Fleurbaix, during which he was injured by shrapnel and captured. They then describe his experiences in German POW camps at Dulmen, Minden, Soltan and Halmen before he was released to Holland in June 1918. One item includes copies of letters to his parents dated December 1915. Includes photographs and a POW identity card.
Diary written by Lance Corporal Arnold Branston Mason of 14 Field Company Engineers, covering 19 July 1916 to 28 August 1917 detailing his part in the Fromelles attack, being wounded in the face and s
Diary and memoirs (photocopy) kept by Chief Officer Isaac John Burch relating to his service as a merchant seaman on SS Wandilla during World War I. The diary, 17 June to 4 October 1915, details the f
Diary commenting on training and picket duty in Egypt, march from Tel-el-Kebir to Serapeum, shortage of rations, arrival in France, advance towards Mouquet Farm, German bombardment of trenches, prepar
Collection relating to Lance Corporal Ernest T Chalk, 15 Battalion. Collection consists of correspondence with his mother related to the first Anzac Day celebrations and memoirs of his POW experience
Collection relating to the First World War service of 185 Corporal James Murgatroyd 'Roy' Holgate, 30th Infantry Battalion, Egypt, England and France, 1915-1918. Collection consists of 63 items includ
Diary written by Lance Corporal Arnold Mason of 14 Field Company Engineers, covering 19 July 1916 - 28 August 1917 detailing his part in the Fromelles attack, being wounded in the face and subsequent
