W. Hilton Saunders manuscript collection [manuscript]. 1915-1965.

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W. Hilton Saunders manuscript collection [manuscript]. 1915-1965.

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Comprises diaries, badges, newspaper clipping, correspondence, cards, ration books, leave pass, photographs and memorabilia relating to Hilton Saunders' World War I service in France, 1915-1965.

10 cm (2 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7042069

Libraries Australia

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Saunders, W. Hilton.

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W. Hilton Saunders was 21 when he joined the first Coo-ee recruiting march at Wongarbon, N.S.W. on October 10, 1915. The men marched the 320 mile trek on the Coo-ee trail from the mid-western farming town of Gilgandra to Sydney, gathering about three hundred volunteer troops on the way, and reaching Sydney on November 12, 1915. After four months of training at the Liverpool camp the Coo-ees embarked on March 8, 1916 on the HMAT Star of England transport A15 as the 15th Battalion, disembarking at...

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

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