The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to service of Captain Claude Elmhurst Benson, 9 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1915-1916. Collection includes extracts from letters written to his mother. Extracts made in 1927 by Benson family in response to request by Australian War Memorial. Location of originals unknown.
Biographical note: Captain Claude Elmhurst Benson, DCM, 9 Battalion, Australian Infantry. Killed in action, France, 2 July 1916. Age 26. Son of Edward Ernest and Elizabeth Benson, of Lane Cove Rd., Ryde, New South Wales.
Collection relating to service of Captain Walter Granleese Boys, 25 Battalion, France, 1916. Collection includes letter written to family in Maryborough, QLD describing the Battle of Pozieres. Copy
Collection relating to service of Captain Francis Coen, 18 and 19 Battalion, Gallipoli, Egypt and France, 1915-1916. Collection includes typewritten copies of letters sent home to his mother in Yass,
Collection relating to service of Captain Herbert Spencer Dickinson, 57 Battalion, At Sea and France, 1914-1917. Collection includes a handwritten copy of a narrative of the Sydney - Emden encounter
Collection relating to service of 2454 Lieutenant John George Cosson DCM, 16 Battalion and 48 Battalion. Wallet 1 of 1 – Contains handwritten extracts from a diary written by Cosson while on Gallipol
Collection relating to service of 467 Sergeant Arthur Edward Bathurst Beresford, 26 Battalion, Egypt, Gallipoli and France, 1914-1918. Collection contains extracts from letters and diary. Extracts
Collection relating to the service of 5649 Private Alexander Boswell Armstrong, 4 Battalion, 1916. Collection includes letters written by Armstrong to his sister, Lydia. Biographical note: 5649 Pr