Papers of Douglas Grant [manuscript]. 1918-1988.

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Papers of Douglas Grant [manuscript]. 1918-1988.

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The papers comprise copies of correspondence seeking information about Douglas Grant obtained from the Australian War Memorial's Red Cross POW file (1918); Cigler's research correspondence on Grant (1978-1988); Cigler's handwritten copy of a "Sydney Morning Herald" article on the rejection of Aborigines for war service overseas (28 June 1915); copies of articles about Grant from "Reveille" (31 Jan. 1932) and the "Australian Army journal" (no. 268, 1973); series of articles 'Things I remember: a prisoner-of-war looks back' by W. C. Groves (Jan. 1932-Feb. 1934); copy of the "Catalogue of an exhibition of photographs and documents depicting Aboriginal involvement in the Australian Army", State Library of Victoria (April-May 1989) including a small paragraph on Grant; newspaper reviews of "Gallipoli"; and a photocopy of "The history of the Thirteenth Battalion AIF" by Thomas White (1924).

4 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7073012

Libraries Australia

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Groves, William C. (William Charles), 1898-1967

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William Charles Groves, B.A. (Melb), Dip.Ed., F.R.A.I. (1898-1967) was a Supervisor of Education in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea from 1922 till 1926. He carried out anthropological work in the Western Pacific, including New Guinea, from 1931 till 1936, as a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology under the Australian National Research Council. He was Director of Education in Nauru from 1937 till 1938 and Advisor on Education in the Solomon Islands from 1939 till 1940. After World War II h...

Grant, Douglas, c1885-1951.

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White, Thomas A. (Thomas Alexander), 1886-1962.

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T. A. White served as a Lieutenant and later as a Captain with the 13th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces, in France and Belgium, 1916-1919. From Mar. to July 1917 he was a training officer in England. He was wounded May, 1918 and after treatment in England returned to France Oct. 1918. From the description of Diaries [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225765467 ...

Australia. Army. Battalion, 13th.

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Cigler, Michael J., 1923-1990

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Papers collected by Cigler while researching a book on Douglas Grant, a full-blooded Aborigine, draughtsman and soldier who was born in the Bellenden Ker Ranges, Queensland, and adopted at 12 months by Robert Grant after his parents were killed. Grant joined the 13th Battalion AIF in 1916, was taken prisoner-of-war at the battle of Bullecourt, and held near Berlin. From the description of Papers of Douglas Grant [manuscript]. 1918-1988. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 2258...