Willie Neville Majoribank Chester manuscript collection [manuscript], 1915-1918. 1915-1918.

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Willie Neville Majoribank Chester manuscript collection [manuscript], 1915-1918. 1915-1918.

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Copy of a brief diary kept during the First World War by Willie Chester, 1915-1918, measuring 120cm x 90cm. His diary describes shipboard life; training in Egypt and England; and the frustrations and horrors of the campaigns in France and Belgium.

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

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Chester, Willie Neville Majoribank.

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Soldier. Willie Neville Majoribank Chester was born in Papua New Guinea, and served as a Private in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Special Reinforcements, from 29 November 1915 to 10 June 1919. Chester enlisted at the Town Hall, Sydney, NSW, on the 28 August 1915, and entered Holsworthy Camp, NSW, on 28 September 1915, in DCoy, 9th Battalion. He transferred to the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) on 29 November 1915. He embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT A61 Kanowna on 29 March 1916, and d...