The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the service of 721 Lieutenant George Simpson, 6 Battalion, AIF, France, 1918. Collection consists of one letter written by Lieutenant Simpson to his parents, in August 1918.
Biographical note: Lieutenant George Simpson, 6 Battalion AIF, who on 23 August 1918 was killed in action at Cerisy on the Somme. Other biographical details concerning him are: farmer; of Mildura, Victoria; born Harrogate, England; educated at Sidleigh School, Yorkshire; underwent a course at the Guelph Agricultural College, Ontario, Canada; came to Australia when 21 years old; enlisted in the AIF in August 1914 with the Army Service Corps; served in Egypt (including the expedition against the Senussi Arabs on the Eastern Frontier), Gallipoli and France; sent to officers' training school at Cambridge University and was commissioned in August 1917; was wounded in November 1917; age at time of death, 26.
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant William Stephen McShane, 6 Battalion AIF. Collection consists of a letter from Herbert Bellamy of Burgh Castle, Great Yarmouth to Lt. McShane, a lette
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Reginald John Hunter, 19 Battalion AIF, France, 1917. Collection consists of a notebook containing handwritten course notes for 2 Divisional Wing, 1 A
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Howard Victor Morey, 58 Battalion, AIF, France, 1917. Collection consists of a typescript copy of a letter written by Lieutenant Morey to his mother.
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Mervyn Digby Knight, MC,60 Battalion, France, 1917. Collection consists of biographical notes, a handwritten copy of a letter from General William Bir
Collection relating to the service of 1918 Sergeant Francis James Kellaway, 36 Battalion AIF, England & France, 1916-1918, and of 3174 Private George Gordon Byron Kellaway, 53 Battalion AIF, France, 1
Collection relating to the service of 2787B Private Charles Archibald Simpson, 10 Battalion, AIF, France, 1916. Collection consists of typed extracts from seven letters written by Private Simpson to