The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
6 handwritten diaries June 1916-February 1918 kept by 10796 Lieutenant Victor Philip Allan, 3rd Divisional Train, 22nd Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) and 39 Battalion, detailing his voyage to England on HMT Persic (A34) and subsequent experiences in Lark Hill Camp, Salisbury Plains, England; La Creche and St. Omer, France; and Dickebusch, Belgium (near Ypres) July - November 1917. The diaries describe in detail personal feelings, management of horses and mules, movement of rations and supplies, observation balloons and aircraft and camp routine. A notebook of anecdotes kept in late 1916 appear possible drafts of articles submitted to the 3rd Divisional Train magazine The Astra. Diaries refer to Dan (later Sir Daryl) Lindsay who illustrated articles in The Astra, and in 1918 commenced work as an Official Medical Artist at Queen Mary Hospital at Sidcup, Kent.
FOUR DIARIES, 1914-1918, WITH TRANSCRIPT KEPT BY PARTRIDGE AND DESCRIBING COMBAT, DAILY DUTIES AND HIS WOUNDING IN FRANCE; ALSO COURSE CERTIFICATES, 1923-1930, FROM HIS TIME WITH THE AUSTRALIAN INSTRU
Collection relating to No 908 Private Charles Herbert Taylor who served with 34 Battalion during the First World War. The collections consists of two original diaries for 1918 (one appears to be a du
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant James Murray Aitken, MC, 11 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 5 December 1914-12 May 1918. Letters and diaries provide detailed descriptions of Aitken'
Papers of Lieutenant Stanley Thomas Parkes who served with the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance during the First World War. Parkes kept four diaries documenting the period 1915-1918 during operations
Collection relating to the First World War service of 20985 Sapper Harold Douglas Grant, 3rd Division Signal Company. Collection consists of three diaries recording the sea voyage from Melbourne to Su
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Edgar Sydney Worrall, 24 Battalion, AIF, Australia, at sea, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, England, Belgium, 1915-1917. Collection consists of photostat an