Papers [manucript]. 1915-1928.

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Papers [manucript]. 1915-1928.

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Papers relating to W.W. I., mostly letters to his family, 1915-1928. Four letters from Eric Chinner, Duntroon Military College, May 1915--10 Oct. 1915. Forty-eight letters written while on active service at sea, in Middle East and France, 1915-1916 July 15. Letters and tributes concerning Eric Chinner's death while on active service, 26 July 1916-17 Jan 1928, including some from C.E.W. Bean, the official war historian. Also photographs and negatives, ca. 1914-1918. The photographs are not annotated, with one exception. They depict soldiers in uniform, shipboard scenes, scenes in the Middle East, and scenes of various aspects of military life.

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Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow), 1879-1968

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Historian. From the description of Historical notes [manuscript]. 1924. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225829699 Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001091.0x0001a9 Official War Correspondent for the Australian Commonwealth Divisional Headquarters, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1914-1919. From the description of War diaries [manuscript]. (Libraries Aus...

Australia. Australian Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)

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Australia. Army. Battalion, 32nd

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Chinner, Eric, 1894-1916.

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Eric Harding Chinner was born in Peterborough, S. Aust., in Jan. 1894. He was a member of the Australian Military Forces and was appointed as an officer of the Australian Imperial Force on 7 Oct. 1915 with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He was commanding officer 6 Platoon, B Company, 32nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Brigade. Eric Chinner died of wounds as a prisoner of war on 17 July 1916. From the description of Papers [manucript]. 1915-1928. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 2229...