The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the service of 3755 Corporal John Richard Allan DCM, 19 Battalion, France, 1915-1918. Collection includes photocopies of letters to parents and a photocopy of a diary written whilst on active service in France, 1916-1917. Letters describe Allan's training as a signaller and later transfer to gunner and his successive frontline activities and woundings after his arrival in France. Photocopies made by Memorial 1928. Location of originals unknown.
Throughout the letters and diary Allan comments on effective military leadership and notes the changes to warfare over the period including the introduction of tanks and the increase in gas attacks.
Biographical note: 3755 Corporal John Richard Allan, DCM, 19 Battalion, Australian Infantry. Died of wounds, France, 3 Oct 1918. Age 41. Son of Emily and the late George Allan. Native of Manning River, New South Wales.
Collection relating to service of Lieutenant Gerald Archbold Allan, 19 Battalion, France, 1917-1918. Collection includes letters to mother and to wife; photographs; bible; prayer book, and papers rel
Collection relating to service of 2152 Lance Corporal Reginald Birchenough, 8 Battalion, France, 1916-1918. Collection includes diary and letters written to his brother, Will. Biographical note: 2
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Morton McLeod Allan, 12 Battalion, France, September-October 1917. Collection includes letters from Allan as printed in newspaper (unnamed) and condol
Papers of Corporal Arthur G. Thomas (3470), 6th Infantry Battalion (AIF). Letters home from the time of embarkation for overseas service on 11 October 1915. The collection is quite extensive and det
Collection relating to the service of 5969 Corporal Ernest Cecil Foss, 11 Infantry Battalion, England and France, 1916-1918. Collection includes photostat copies of Foss's letters to his mother and s
Collection relating to service of 3110 Lance Corporal William James Blake, 46 Battalion, France, 1917. Collection includes letters written home to family in Australia. Biographical note: 3110 Lance