The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to service of 2249 Lance Corporal Frederick John Gibbons, 26 Battalion AIF, Tasmania, Egypt and France. Collection includes letters written by Gibbons to his aunts in Oxfordshire, England, between June 1915 and June 1916 describing camp life.
This collection reflects the attitudes of a man who had lived most of his life in England and appears to have thought of himself as an Englishman rather than an Australian. The letters include numerous references to the disposal of his personal property in the event of his death.
Biographical note: Lance Corporal Frederick John Gibbons, 26 Battalion AIF, who on 29 July 1916 was killed in action at Pozieres. Other biographical details concerning him are: brewer (in England) and store manager (in Tasmania); of Launceston, Tasmania; born Eynsham, Oxfordshire, England; educated at the Grammar School, Woodstock, Oxfordshire; arrived in Australia when about 32 years old; age at time of death, 38.
Collection relating to service of 3484 Lance Corporal James Lindsay Jones, 52 Battalion AIF, Egypt, England, France, Belgium, 1915-1918. Collection consists of 13 letters from Lance Corporal Jones to
Collection relating to service of 3683 Lance Corporal Colville Frederick Armstrong, 4 Machine Gun Battalion, France, 1917-1919. Collection includes letters from Armstrong to his family, and letters t
Collection relating to the service of 340 Lance Corporal Arthur Hurtle Morphett, 32 Battalion, AIF. Collection consists of biographical details only. Biographical note: 340 Lance Corporal Arthur H
Collection relating to service of 3500 Lance Corporal John 'Jack' Cohen, 24 Battalion, France, 1916. Collection includes copies of letters written home to his parents in Melbourne, Australia. Copies
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Charles Frederick Yeadon, 22 Battalion, AIF, at sea, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, 1915-1917. Collection consists of thirty letters written by Yeadon to h
Collection relating to service of 495 Sergeant John James [Jack] Atkinson, 26 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1915-1918. Collection includes letters written by Atkinson to his family in England. B