The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the First World War service of 656 Private Walter Ransome de Vaux, 24 Australian Machine Gun Company, England, France, Malta, 1916-1943.
Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of diaries, correspondence and documents relating to de Vaux's service and experiences on the Western Front. Two ration books and three small diaries outline de Vaux's experiences between 1916 and 1918, and include postings and movements, the weather, hospitalisation, and medical discharge. A copy of the Special Orders from Captain Frank Bethune MC has been signed and annotated; the orders compel No. 1 Section, 3 Australian Machine Gun Company to hold a position at Passchendaele at all costs. Several items appear to have been souvenired by de Vaux, including two money orders for a Monsieur Emilie Goffaur, and nine postcards from several German soldiers, dated between May 1917 and August 1918. The wallet also contains an empty envelope from a Maltese prisoner of war letter, and a report from Burma, dated 3 May 1943.
Collection relating to the First World War experiences of Gertrude Maude Northeast, England, 1915-1919. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consists of one album, relating to Gertrude Northeast and containing messages a
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX50109 Lance Corporal Charles Matthew Tennent (Chas) Watson, 4 Australian Reserve Motor Transport Company, prisoner of war, The collection con
Collection relating to the pre-war and First World War service of 26417 Gunner Griffith Sanderson Lloyd, 110 Howitzer Battery, 10 Australian Field Artillery Brigade, Australia, United Kingdom, France
Collection relating to the First World War service of Private Henry James 'Harry' Snedden, A Section, 9 Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps, United Kingdom, France, 1916-1918. Wallet 1 of
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant David Stanley Evans, 23 Australian Infantry Battalion, France, 1917. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consists of a diary maintained by Evans between 1
Collection relating to the First World War service of 2nd Lieutenant Harold Vynne Woods, 4 Field Ambulance and 16 Battalion, Gallipoli, France and Belgium, 1914-1919. Wallet 1 of 1 consists of a type