The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the First World War service of Captain Mervyn Bournes Higgins, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment. Collection consists of a bound volume of typed transcripts of letters and extracts, telegrams, reports, etc written by various people between 1915 and 1918. The typescripts consists of: a few letters written by Higgins to his mother (including one handwritten letter); descriptions of events at Gallipoli that Higgins would have participated in; condolence letters written to his father the Hon Mr Justice Henry Bournes Higgins KC following the death of his son at Magdhaba on 23 December 1916. Also included is a news cutting from 1915 entitled "Battle Ended - Lone Pine Trenches Taken - Another Attack Fails", and a 1917 letter to the Hon Mr Justice Henry Bournes Higgins KC notifying him of the award of Mentioned in Despatches made to his son.
Biographical notes: Captain Mervyn Bournes Higgins, Adjutant, HQ, 8 Australian Light Horse. Mentioned in Despatches. Killed in action 23 December 1916. Age 29. Son of Justice Henry Bournes Higgins and Mary Alice Higgins, of Doona, Malvern, Victoria, Australia.
Some officers of the 8th Light Horse Regiment. Seated on left, looking around, Captain Joseph Terrell Crowl; with hands on hips, Lt Mervyn Bournes Higgins, son of Mr Justice Higgins; dressed in single
Collection relating to the Second World War service of WX9926 Captain Mervyn James Keley, 2/32 Australian Infantry Battalion, Borneo, 1945. Collection consists of a six-page handwritten letter with e
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant John Laidley Merivale, 6 Light Horse Regiment & 4 Battalion, AIF, Gallipoli, 1915. Collection consists of four letters [typescript carbon copies] writ
Letters (typescripts and copies of originals) written to his family by Lieutenant Douglas St George Rich whilst serving with the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen in South Africa, covering the period 25
Collection relating to the Second World War service of brothers Driver John Henry Ball, 23 Battalion and 2 Machine Gun Battalion; and Lance Corporal Allan Ernest Ball, 2/5th Field Ambulance. Collecti
Collection relating to the service of 2nd Lieutenant Ronald Mackenzie, 20 Infantry Battalion, AIF, Gallipoli, Lemnos, Egypt, 1915-1916. Collection consists of three letters written by 2nd Lieutenant