The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX16036 Lieutenant Cecil Frederick Greenwood, 2/17 Australian Infantry Battalion, Australia, North Africa, New Guinea, 1940-1944.
The collection consists of four handwritten diaries compiled in variously sized card-covered notebooks by Greenwood and covering the period 20 July 1940 to 29 October 1944. Entries, written in a direct style, detail Greenwood's training in Australia, voyage to the Middle East and active service in North Africa (including accounts of operations in and around Tobruk and his unit's involvement in the Battles of El Alamein) with the 2/17th Battalion. The diaries also detail his involvement with an Infantry Training Battalion in Palestine, return to Australia in 1943, officer training and commission and subsequent service in New Guinea with the 22nd Employment Company and 22nd Battalion. Note the entries in the two later diaries, covering his post-North African service are more intermittent and less detailed than those for the two earlier volumes. Also included in the collection is an illustrated typescript memoir of service with full transcription of the original diary entries and additional biographical details regarding Greenwood's pre-war life.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 424584 Pilot Officer Bruce Frederick Greenwood, 51 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, c.1943-1945.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VF398012 Corporal Norma Isobel Greenwood (née Simpson), Australian Women’s Army Service, and VX10665 Lieutenant Arthur Alton Greenwood, Australia
DIARIES COVERING 1940-1943 WITH ENTRIES DESCRIBING VOYAGE FROM AUSTRALIA TO NORTH AFRICA AND BATTLES AT BENGHAZI AND TOBRUK AND IN PALESTINE
Collection relating to service of 1763 Private Arthur Greenwood, 8 Battalion, Gallipoli. Collection consists of one letter from Private Arthur Greenwood to his family in Jumbuk, Victoria, describing
Collection relating to Second World War service of VX46163 Lieutenant Ronald Keith Monro, Land Headquarters Military History Section, Palestine,1940-1945. Collections consists of transcripts of 9 dia
A diary covering the period December 1939 - December 1940, with detailed regular entries covering both training and service in the Middle East. Also includes correspondence from the families of soldie