The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to service of 1050 Sergeant Leslie Sydney Horder, 1 Light Horse Regiment. Collection consists of five original handwritten diaries, containing regular entries covering: sea voyage to Egypt, training, and active service on Gallipoli from 28 September to evacuation on 19 December. Continues with service as a machine gunner during campaigns in Sinai and Palestine, including the battles at Romani, Gaza, Beersheba, and the advance up the Jordan valley. Comments on natives, terrain and weather conditions, periods of continuous contact with Turkish forces and skirmishes with Bedouin tribes. The diaries also cover leave in Jerusalem, Cairo and after the Armistice in England and France, hospitalisation with malaria and dysentery, inspections and addresses by senior commanders including Chauvel, riots in Egypt in early 1919, and final return to Australia.
Collection relating to the First World War of 111 Lance Corporal George Booley, 5 Battalion. Collection consists of three diaries written by Booley, describing his service experiences during 1914-191
Collection relating to the First World War service of 3565 Sergeant Francis Viney DCM, 3rd Australian Field Artillery Brigade and 25th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, Egypt and France, 1915-1918.
Diaries of No. 181 Sergeant Ronald Campbell Ross (8th Australian Light Horse Regiment). There are eight original diaries, some being contemporary rewritings (with minor amendments) of others by the wr
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Robert Samuel Farnes, 2nd Signal Troop. Collection consists of three personal diaries, three copies of unit diaries, leave pass, lette
Collection relating to the First World War service of 2347 Staff Sergeant Henry 'Harry' Langtip, 4 Light Horse Regiment. Collection consists of three diaries for 1916, 1917 and 1918. The diaries des
Collection relating to the First World War service of 18715 Sergeant Clive Lander Neill, Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company. The collection contains two versions of the same diary: an