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Collection relating to the First World War service of 3947 Corporal Glen William Warnecke, 19 Australian Infantry Battalion, Egypt, France and Belgium, 1915-1917.
Wallet 1 of 3 – Consists of four original handwritten notebooks covering the period 1915 to 1916. The notebooks contain regular undated entries or "chapters" that recount Warnecke’s enlistment, embarkation from Australia his daily experience whilst training in Egypt, and fighting in France on the Western Front. Warnecke’s "chapters" document his journey from Marseille to the Western Front and contain observations of daily life in the trenches, German prisoners of war, company deserters, aircraft dogfights and his interactions with other soldiers and French villagers.
Wallet 2 of 3 - Consists of six original handwritten diaries and two bound notebooks covering the periods 1915 to 1917. Warnecke's diaries are numbered in a sequence, and four of them contain pressed wildflowers and botanical specimens including poppies, daisies and violets, ivy leaves and seed pods collected from the Western Front. The diaries contain regular entries that document Warnecke’s daily duties on the front-line at Pozières, including the mending and digging of trenches, training exercises in local cathedrals and his observations of casualties, and the effect of shelling on the natural and built environment. Warnecke’s dairies also contain diagrams on how to build trenches, holes and dugouts, and his notebooks (one appears to have been made retrospectively) contain his training notes on artillery formations, and list the service number, name and casualty status of soldiers in the 19th and 20th Australian Infantry Battalions.
Wallet 3 of 3 - Contains two folders. Folder 1 of 2 contains two newspaper clippings (one article written by Warnecke), two fragments and five bundles of notes containing official correspondence, one map of the British front in France and Flanders, one book of maps of the Western Front, three envelopes (one containing annotations and appearing to be retrospective), one soldier's stamped pay slip, one writing pad cover, one letter of typed correspondence to the editor of the Hurdcott Herald and one handwritten short story by R. Owens.
Folder 2 of 2 contains two carbon paper Field and Army Service Correspondence Books comprised of official correspondence and reports from the period August 1916 to December 1916. Warnecke's Field Service books are filled with regular short entries written to military personnel and contain messages and correspondence including company and trench relief orders, camp inspection notes, diagrams, lists of inventory including the service number, name and rank of soldiers across multiple battalions fighting on the Western Front.
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Colonel Terence Patrick McSharry CMG, DSO & Bar, MC, 15 Australian Infantry Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1914-1918. Custom box 1 o
Collection relating to the First World War service of 128 Private Herbert William Ransom, 6 Battalion, AIF, Australia, Egypt, Gallipoli, Malta, England, 1914-1915. Wallet 1 of 3 - Consists of two fol
TWO DIARIES COVERING 1916 AND 1917 WITH BRIEF ENTRIES RECORDING CONDITIONS AND ACTIONS ON THE WESTERN FRONT. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING DEATH IN ACTION OF PRIVATE REID
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1284 Sergeant James Glenville Shepherd, 30 Infantry Battalion, Egypt and France, 1915-1916. Wallet 1 of 3 - Consists of one anatomical drawing of
Collection relating to the First World War service of 286 Corporal Arnott Craigmyle Smith, 7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Egypt and Gallipoli, 1914-1915. Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of two original h
Collection relating to the First World War service of Private Wilfred Denver Gallwey, France and England, 1916-1919. Wallet 1 of 1 - contains two folders. Folder 1 contains one demobilisation paper.