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Collection relating to the First World War service of 3255 Lance Corporal Eldred James Stanhope Belford, 1 Australian Infantry Battalion, Australia, Egypt and France, 1915-1916.
Wallet 1 of 1 - Contains copies of letters Belford wrote to his parents and other family members, and extracts copied from his wartime diary. Belford writes of his military training, sightseeing in and his impressions of Egypt, his service in France and in the trenches of the Western Front, and of the death of his friend, [3537 Private] Jim Young. The copies and extracts were made in 1928 at the request of the Australian War Memorial.
Biographical note: 3255 Lance Corporal Eldred James Stanhope Belford, 1 Battalion, Australian Infantry. Died of wounds, France, 19 June 1916. Age 21. Son of James John and Priscilla Belford, of Fassifern, New South Wales. Born at Newcastle, New South Wales.
Collection relating to the First World War service of 3255 Lance Corporal Eldred James Stanhope Belford, 1 Australian Infantry Battalion, Australia, Egypt and France, 1915-1916. Wallet 1 of 1 - Cont
Collection relating to the First World War service of 3255 Lance Corporal Eldred James Stanhope Belford, 1 Australian Infantry Battalion, Australia, Egypt and France, 1915-1916. Wallet 1 of 1 - Cont
Collection relating to service of 1916 Lance Corporal James Boe, 1 Light Trench Mortar Battery, Gallipoli and France, 1915-1916. Collection includes copies of letters describing active service writte
Collection relating to service of 372 Sapper William James Heathcote Brook, 1 Tunnelling Company, France, 1916. Collection includes handwritten copy of extracts from diary kept while on active servic
Portrait of 3255 Acting Corporal (Cpl) Eldred James Belford, a cleaner for the NSW Government Railway, of Toronto, New South Wales. He enlisted in the 1st Battalion on 13 July 1915 and embarked from S
Collection relating to the service of Lance Corporal Herbert Gordon Akhurst, 20 Battalion, Bapaume, France 1917. Extracts from letter of 23 March 1917 describe working under the Town Hall in Bapaume
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