The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the service of 51 Sergeant Charles Horace Lewis, 13 Battalion, AIF, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, England. Collection comprises letters written by Sergeant Lewis to his family in Liverpool, England; snapshots; two notebooks; a newspaper cutting; a small New Testament; and four letters written by Sergeant Lewis' brother Private Frank Ernest Lewis, to his mother.
Biographical note: Sergeant Charles Horace Lewis, 13 Battalion, AIF, who was mortally wounded on 3 July 1918 near Villers Bretonneux, and died the following day. Other biographical details concerning him are: clerk; of Sydney, NSW' born Bradford, Yorkshire, England; educated at Oxford College, Waterloo, Liverpool, England; served for 18 months as a volunteer in the Royal Naval Reserve, England; came to Australia when 18 years old; age at time of death, 25; enlisted in the AIF in August 1914, serving in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France; was wounded on a number of occasions, at least five (his father says eight times). His brother, Private F. E Lewis, 1/10 Scottish, British Army, was killed on 19 June 1918 in France.
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
Informal portrait of soldiers of the 13th Battalion framed in the doorway of a hut. In this group is 51 Sergeant (Sgt) Charles Horace (Bob) Lewis, (probably second from the top, right), a pipe in his
Collection relating to service of 2337 Gunner Charles John Bissell, 13 Field Artillery Brigade, Liverpool, NSW, 1915. Collection includes letters written home to family in England. Biographical not
Collection relating to service of Lance Sergeant Harold A Fischer, Otago Battalion NZEF, Egypt and Gallipoli, 1914-1919. Collection includes letters written home to family in Melbourne, Victoria. B
Collection relating to the First World War service of 2429 Sergeant Charles Court Serjeant, 14 Battalion, Gallipoli and France. Collection consists of 45 letter handwritten letters sent by Serjeant t
Letters written by Sergeant Charles Frederick Reeve describing his service with the 22 Battalion and the British Army Flying Corps; experiences in Egypt and Gallipoli and recreation leave in England.