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Collection relating to service of 2619 Sergeant William Patrick Cosgrave, 55 Battalion, France, 1915-1918. Collection includes extracts and copies of letters written home to family in Australia; copies of Red Cross statements concerning the death in action of Cosgrave, and copies of concert programmes from the "Euripdes". Copies made by the Australian War Memorial, 1928. Location of originals unknown. Collection bound into AWM file cover.
Biographical note: Sergeant, 55th Bn, AIF. 2619 Sergeant William Patrick Cosgrave, 55 Battalion, killed in action 17 April 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux. Grocer of Redfern and South Kensington, NSW. Born Fitzroy VIC, educated Cleveland Street School Sydney, member of the Randwick Band, played club cricket, was in junior football team and served in the Senior Cadetsand Citizen Forces (26 Regiment), enlisted AIF 25 July 1915; joined 55 Battalion in Egypt, early 1916; landed in France, July 1916; took part in the Battle of Fromelles, and was with his battalion (according to his father) in every other engagement until his death. Age at death 23 years 10 months. A younger brother 13867 Philip Cameron Cosgrave, 14 Field Ambulance, was wounded September 1917 in Battle of Menin Road, and survived the war. (AWM93 0012/0011/0567)
Collection relating to service of 2619 Sergeant William Patrick Cosgrave, 55 Battalion, France, 1915-1918. Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of extracts and copies of letters written home to family in Austra
Collection relating to service of 2619 Sergeant William Patrick Cosgrave, 55 Battalion, France, 1915-1918. Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of extracts and copies of letters written home to family in Austra
Collection relating to service of Lieutenant Thomas Whiteway Eales DCM, 21 Battalion, England, 1916-1917. Collection includes handwritten copies of letters sent by Eales to family in Australia. Copi
Collection relating to service of 911 Company Sergeant Major George Samuel Feist, 52 Battalion and 12 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1915-1916. Collection includes copies of a letter sent to family
Collection relating to service of Lieutenant Vincent Charles Callen MM, 34 Battalion. Collection includes a photocopy of a publication of Callen's letters written home to his family in Newcastle, NSW
Collection relating to service of 1938A Private Wilfred William Barber, 36 Battalion, France 1917. Collection includes letters written from France to Barber's family. Barber had served in 6 Light T
Collection relating to service of 806 Sergeant Henry Arundel Cheney, 50 Battalion, Gallipoli, 1915. Collection includes a typewritten account of the Landing at Gallipoli, as presented in a talk by Ch