Description
Collection relating to the service of Captain Keith Heritage, MC, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) and 19 Battalion, Rabaul and France. Collection consists of photostat copies of five letters written by Captain Heritage to his father.
Contextual Description
Biographical note: Served in the AN&MEF in German New Guinea, and the 19th Battalion, AIF. He was killed in action at Pozieres on 26 July 1916. Other biographical details concerning him are: Traffic Manager, Union Steamship Company; of Launceston & Strahan, Tasmania, & Sydney, NSW; born Longford, Tasmania; educated at Longford & Invermay state schools, Tasmania; age at time of death, 35. For several years before the war had been a member of the local volunteer forces at Launceston, Tasmania. He was well know as an oarsman (writes his father), having rowed in the winning crew, interstate eight-oar competitions, at Perth, Brisbane, & Sydney, also at Henley, England. He was one of a family of eight sons, five of whom were members of the AIF, among them Lieut. Col. Heritage , Victoria Barracks, Melb. & Lieut Austin Heritage, MC.
Details
Accession Number
1DRL/0347
Classification
Private Record
Measurement
Archived measurement
Copying Provisions
Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.
Provenance
AWM93 12/11/52
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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