The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 in England. Copy made 1929 by Australia House, London, in response to request made by the Australian War Memorial. Location of originals unknown.
Biographical note: Sergeant Major, 12th Bn, AIF. From AWM93 0012/0011/0724. 52 Battalion, 3-4 September 1916, killed in action during an attack upon Mouquet Farm (Pozieres). Wheat agent of Mount Kokeby, Western Australia, born Southsea, Hampshire, England, educated at Council School, Worth, Sussex, England, was a member of the London Metropolitan Police; came to Australia at 21 years, enlisted in the AIF 10 September 1914, posted to 12 Battalion; took part in the Landing at Anzac 25 April 1915, was wounded, returned again to the Peninsula and stayed until evacuation, transferred to 52 Battalion early 1916 in Egypt. Age at time of death 28 years.
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
Pre-war portrait of George Samuel Feist in cricket gear. A wheat agent from Blackboy Hill, WA prior to enlistment and originally from Sussex, England where he had been a member of the Metropolitan Pol
Collection relating to service of Lieutenant Arthur Percy Earle, 6 Machine Gun Company, Egypt, Gallipoli, France and Belgium, 1916. Collection includes letters written home to family in Australia. L
Collection relating to service of Captain Cuthbert Clive Finlay, 17 Battalion, Gallipoli, 1915. Collection includes extracts from a letter to the Australian War Memorial recalling an incident at Quin
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; copi
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