The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1204 Private Walter Scott Kennedy. Collection consists of the original handwritten memoir written by Pte Kennedy. Also includes a bound photocopy of the handwritten memoir titled, "From Anzac Cove to Villers Bretonneux the story of a soldier in the Fifteenth Battalion 1st AIF: Dedicated to Alf Stein Killed at Gallipoli, 2 May 1915". The memoir describes the experiences of Pte Walter S Kennedy serving with the 15 Battalion (4 Infantry Brigade) in the Gallipoli campaign and subsequently in France during the First World War. Notable entries cover the landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, service at Quinn's Post, being wounded and eventual hospitalisation at 3rd London General Hospital (Wandsworth); and his return to active service in France and operations on the Somme in 1916. The memoir contains some interesting thoughts on "shell shock" and vivid descriptions of the fighting and conditions on the Western Front. Also included is a typed transcript (68 pp) of the memoir, in both digital and printed formats.
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1204 Private Walter Scott Kennedy, 15 Battalion and 4 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1914-1918. Wallet 2 of 3 - Collection consists of a typed
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1204 Private Walter Scott Kennedy, 15 Battalion and 4 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1914-1918. Wallet 3 of 3 - Collection consists of the orig
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1204 Private Walter Scott Kennedy, 15 Battalion and 4 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1914-1918. Wallet 1 of 3 - Collection consists of a bound
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1204 Private Walter Scott Kennedy, 15 Battalion and 4 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1914-1918. Wallet 2 of 3 - Collection consists of a typed
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1204 Private Walter Scott Kennedy, 15 Battalion and 4 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1914-1918. Wallet 3 of 3 - Collection consists of the orig
Collection relating to the First World War service of 619 Private Harold Emanuel Collins, 1 Field Ambulance. Collection consists of an original handwritten diary kept by Pte Collins while on active s
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1677 Corporal Charles Smith, 14 Australian Infantry Battalion, Australia, c.1920. Wallet 1 of 3 - consists of a typewritten reflection entitled '
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX190472 (N43087) Sergeant Colin Kennedy, 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, New Guinea and Australia, 1942. Coll