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Letters written by Surgeon-Lieutenant John Anthony Bloomfield, RAN, to his wife and daughter, during October 1953 - July 1964, while serving as a ship's doctor on the frigate HMAS Murchison during UN peacekeeping operation in Korea. The letters provide an excellent insight into the day to day life on board ship, the minutiae of professional medical duties (including his particular concern with VD cases), descriptions of Hong Kong, Sasebon (Japan) and Yong Pyong-Do (an island off west coast of Korea). They also express his clearly felt sense of separation from his wife.
Additional material includes a letter (dated 21 May 1954) written in an unwittingly humorous parody of English prose by Surgeon-Lieutenant Bloomfield's Hong Kong tailor; a US Navy souvenir certificate (dated 17 December 1953 and attached to the letter written 19 December 1953) commemorating Surgeon-Lieutenant's status as "Honorary Submariner", following his 'dive' in the USS Pickerel (SS524), four Hong Kong Tramways tickets, photographs and negatives belonging to Bloomfield (including images of a 'crossing the line' ceremony and various ephemera he collected while in Hong Kong and Japan.
Letter of a British Naval medical officer, Surgeon Lieutenant Gerald Sylvester Harvey, to his aunts in Ireland dated 30 April 1915. The letter, written on the battleship HMS "London", graphically desc
Collection relating to the Korean War service of O33624 Wing Commander Drummond, RAAF, Japan and Korea, 1951-1953. Wallet 1 of 2 - contains letters from Drummond written in Korea prior to being repor
Collection relates to the Vietnam War service of Chaplain Stanley John Hessey, 8 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), Vietnam and Australia 1969–1970. Collection consists of 9 wallets with 519
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX124 Lieutenant Colonel James Miller, 2/31st Infantry Battalion. Collection consists of three letters written by Miller home to his family. Th
Collection of six (6) personal letters written between Max Taylor and his close friend Barbara Coleman. The collection includes four letters written to Coleman during 1953-54 whilst Taylor was servin
Collection relating to the Vietnam War service of 276640 Captain Terence John Smith, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, Royal Australian Infantry Corps, Vietnam, 1971-1972. Wallet 1 of 1 – Contai