A03061
Photograph A03061 First World War, 1914-1918Studio portrait of Colonel R J Millard CMG CBE of the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC).
Millard, Reginald Jeffery (Colonel, b.1868 - d.1943) Accession Number: 1DRL/0499
Description
Collection relating to the First World War service of Colonel Reginald Jeffery Millard, CMG, CBE, Army Medical Corps, Egypt, Gallipoli, Mudros Island, 1914-1915. Collection consists of a typescript copy of extracts from Colonel Millard's personal diary, written between 8 December 1914 and 26 January 1916. The diary describes his arrival in Egypt, camp life, sightseeing, and his duties at Mena House Hospital. It also gives a detailed description of the trip to Lemnos Island, preparations for the Anzac landing, and life and conditions on Gallipoli from the perspective of the Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services. Typescript copies made by Australian War Memorial. Location of originals unknown. A second typed copy of the extracts from Millard's diary, and two foolscap typed pages dated Egypt 2.5.15 and titled 'Evacuation of wounded from Anzac Landing' are also included. An account of a trip of the temporarily utilised Transport 'Derflinger' by Major (Now Col. Millard) AAMC', is located in the Official Records Collection: AWM25, 481/144.
Contextual Description
The diary extracts which make up this collection give a remarkably detailed and vivid account of Colonel Millard's service in Egypt and Gallipoli. Millard's first-hand accounts of the Anzac landing, the torpedo attack on the SS Southland (2 September 1915) and the allied evacuation of Gallipoli, are of particular interest.
Details
Accession Number
1DRL/0499
Classification
Private Record
Object Type
Diary
Measurement
Overall transcript: 330 mm x 204 mm
Date Made
1914-1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Collection
Item Count
4
Access
Open
Copying Provisions
Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.
Provenance
AWM93 12/11/3401
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
People
Conflicts
Places
Events
Units
Tags
- Christmas
- Funerals and burials
- Sightseeing
- Diaries
- Dugouts
- Casualty movement
- Hospitals
- Canteens
- Water supply
- Water purification
- Dust
- Gas warfare
- Nurses
- Camp life
- SS Queen Elizabeth
- SS Southland
- Hospital ships
- Hospital ship Delta
- HMS Triumph
- Boredom
- Canned foods
- Doctors
- Snipers
- Frostbite
- Measles
- Smallpox
- SS Huntsgreen
- Canteen funds
- Scarlet fever
- Diphtheria
- Trench foot
- Accidents
- Hepatitis
- HMAT Seang Bee A48
- SS Dunluce Castle
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