The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to 957 Private James McAhan, 9 Battalion, August 1914-May 1915 and an unknown soldier, 1918. The collection includes the diary of McAhan documenting his experiences at Gallipoli and the diary of the unknown soldier documenting his leave in England and later service in the Somme area of the Western Front.
McAhan writes about his enlistment, training, troopship voyage, the build up to the landing at Gallipoli and the general conditions experienced.
Handwritten letter by an unknown soldier serving in the First World War. Describes in detail landing at Gallipoli, trenches, shellfire, Turks and bullet wound to his leg.
Long letter dated June 1915 from a unnamed soldier ('C'), a member of a Brigade Ammunition Column, to his sister from a camp in Alexandria. It details his observations of the landing at Gallipoli on 2
Collection relating to service of Captain Charles Albert Barnes, 11 Battalion, Gallipoli 1915. Collection includes photocopies of letters and diary with regular entries of voyage to Egypt and trainin
Collection relating to 1307 Private Elliot Lloyd Gordon Wilkie, 12 Field Artillery. It includes a diary written by Private Wilkie between April-December 1915 documenting his training at Mena Camp, Egy
Typescript of a diary written by 1333 Private Oliver Thomas Giddings of 3 Battalion covering the period 27 August 1914 to March 3 1915. Entries detail enlistment and training in Australia, voyage to a
Collection relating to Second Lieutenant Thomas Francis Rowden, MM, 22 Battalion. It comprises a series of correspondence written by Rowden, 1915-1918 to his parents documenting his First World War ex