The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection consists of letters, postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs and negatives relating to various soldiers serving in France and the Middle East during the First World War. The items were sent to the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) from the relatives of soldiers serving in France and the Middle East to be offered for possible publication as correspondence from the troops. The items mention in detail the living conditions experienced on the front, in trenches and at sea; camp life; the Gallipoli campaign; hospitalisation, injuries and servicemen killed in action; conscription; and the home front. Within each wallet there is an itemised finding aid pertaining to the contents of the wallet.
Wallet 1
Subjects covered include: convalescence and hospitalisation; Gallipoli and the Anzac trenches; enlistment; camp life in Cairo; the Egyptian peoples, tourism, landscapes and agriculture; censorship and the mail.
Wallet 2
Subjects covered include: trench warfare; Australian Red Cross; landing at Gallipoli; injuries, casualties and hospitalisation; proposed referendum in Australia; and the welfare of the troops.
Wallet 3
Subjects covered include: Empire Day; perspectives on the war; living conditions; and trench warfare.
Wallet 4
Subjects covered include: Gallipoli; Ypres; camp life in France; convalescence and hospitalisation; stretcher bearers; returning home; mental effects of trench warfare and conditions on the front.
Wallet 5
Subjects covered in clude: training; women in the workforce and votes for women; nursing, hospital treatment and conditions; courage of ponies in extreme conditions; perspectives on the war; and HMAS Brisbane.
Wallet 6
Subjects covered include: conflict in France; the Navy and naval action in Rabaul; hospitalisation in England; and prisoners of war (POW) in Germany.
Wallet 7
Subjects covered include: honours and awards; hospitalisation; conscription; mail to troops; POW in Germany; the Comfort Fund; war correspondent Charles Bean; soldier settlement blocks, pensions, soldier welfare and returning home; and the sinking of the Emden.
Wallet 8
Subjects covered include: transport of troops; living conditions and camp life; recruitment; injury and hospitalisation; Gallipoli campaign; and German prisoners.
Wallet 9
Subjects covered include: the Armistice; propoganda and pamphlet drops; training; celebrating Christmas; Gallipoli; and burying the dead.
Collection relating to 2008 Private Robert 'Roy' Smith of 22 Battalion. Collection consists of correspondence written by Private Smith to his mother describing training at Seymour Camp, Victoria, life
Collection relating to First World War Service of Lieutenant Sydney Robert Traill, 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, France, 1918. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection comprises of a diary kept in 1918
LETTERS DESCRIBING CAMP LIFE IN AUSTRALIA AND ENGLAND AND TRENCH WARFARE IN FRANCE. GIVES OPINION OF THE WAR, AND DESCRIBES FRANCE. COVER PERIOD APRIL 1916 - OCT 1917; SERVED WITH 37 BATTALION.
DIARY WRITTEN TO BE SENT HOME IN LETTER SECTIONS. COVERS SERVICE FROM ENLISTMENT, CAMP LIFE IN EGYPT AND SERVICE ON GALLIPOLI. DESCRIBES HOSPITAL CONDITIONS GRAPHICALLY. ALSO DESCRIBES CONDITIONS IN T
Collection relating to the First World service of 190 Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Ralph Hutchinson, 13 Field Ambulance. Collection consists of an original diary for the period August 1914 to August
Collection relating to the First World War service of 3256 Private William Francis "Will" Walton, 54 Battalion, At sea, England, France and Belgium, 1916-1918. Wallet 3 of 3 - Collection consists of
