Description
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Harold Eric Moody, 7 Battery, 3 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, 1915-1916. Collection consists of letters, and copied extracts of letters, written by Moody to his family in Australia, and a pocket diary kept by Moody between January and August 1916.
Contextual Description
Biographical note: Lieutenant Harold Eric Moody, 7 Battery, Field Artillery, AIF. Solicitor, of Yorketown, South Australia, born Adelaide; educated at St. Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide; served in the Adelaide artillery as a Lieutenant; joined the AIF as a 2nd Lieutenant in May 1915 and was posted to reinforcements for the 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, 3 September 1915 - taken on strength of the 7th Battery; 15 October 1915 - Lieutenant; 20 August 1916 - wounded at Pozieres; 28 August 1916 - died of wounds, aged 23. Son of Clarence Percival Moody and Eleanor Maud Moody, of Newcastle, New South Wales.
Details
Accession Number
1DRL/0504
Classification
Private Record
Measurement
Archived measurement
Copying Provisions
Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.
Provenance
AWM93 12/11/1386
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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