The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Vietnam War service of national serviceman Corporal Colin Talbot Nicol, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment [6 RAR], Vietnam. Collection consists of ten letters written by Cpl Nicol home to his family between June 1969 and May 1970 (2nd tour of 6 RAR). The letters are detailed and describe the various operations he was involved with, particularly the discovery of tunnels and bunkers and hidden caches of weapons and supplies. Nicols also reveals his feelings to his family, descriptions of his fellow soldiers, mine clearing, ambushes, fighting with the Viet Cong, and numbers of casualties suffered. Also included is a single letter from Chaplain N R Mills, written to Nicol's family in July 1969 after one of the operations, reporting that he had found their son in good spirits.
Letter relating to the Vietnam service of Temporary Corporal 3794133 Colin Talbot Nicol, 6 Royal Australian Regiment. Colin sent this letter to his parents during his service and mentions the mine inc
Letters written by Frank Denley to his family during service with 1 Field Squadron during the Vietnam War. They cover the years 1969-1970 and document Denley's work at Dat Do clearing minefields.
Collection relating to the Vietnam War service of Corporal Graeme Richard Hellwig, 102 Field Workshop, Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Australia and Vietnam, 1969 – 1972
Album of newspaper cuttings containing letters written by Captain Arthur Cobcroft Mackenzie during his service with the 1 Battalion, 1914 - 1918. The collection also includes a telegram reporting hi
Collection relating to 2543 Private Donald Nicol, 56 Battalion, France. Collection consists of a single paged letter, dated 16 October 1917, written by Sister Ida O'Dwyer to Nicol's mother describing
Collection of 448266 Private Manfred Bohn relating to his service in Vietnam. It includes letters to fiancee, Lyn, containing frequent messages of love, also one letter from his mother. Bohn's letters