The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to service of 1938A Private Wilfred William Barber, 36 Battalion, France 1917. Collection includes letters written from France to Barber's family.
Barber had served in 6 Light Trench Mortar Battery, 63 Battalion and 36 Battalion. Letter on file AWM93 0012/0011/1896 from W. Barber, University of Sydney, 18 June 1929, relates the consideration Barber's parents gave to the request from the Memorial for Barber's letters. Letter also relates the incident which led to Barber volunteering for the Light Trench Mortar Battery. The Memorial returned most of the letters to the family but retained three as they displayed his "character and...spirit".
Biographical note: 1938A Private Wilfred William Barber, 36 Battalion, Australian Infantry. Died of wounds, Poperinghe area, Belgium, 23 October 1917. Age 24. Son of William and Eliza Ann Barber, of University of Sydney, New South Wales.
Collection relating to service of Lieutenant Vincent Charles Callen MM, 34 Battalion. Collection includes a photocopy of a publication of Callen's letters written home to his family in Newcastle, NSW
Collection relating to the service of 1063 Corporal Norman Ross Anderson, 5 Battalion, France, 1917. Collection includes extracts of letters written from France by Anderson to his mother. Extracts m
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 15724 Gunner Rupert John Arnold, 1 Field Artillery Brigade, France, 1915-1917. Collection includes letters written by Arnold to his father, Ralph Arnold. Arnold di
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 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