Diaries, 1914-1918, 1942 [manuscript]. 1914-1918, 1942.

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Diaries, 1914-1918, 1942 [manuscript]. 1914-1918, 1942.

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Comprises five diaries written by Albert Ernest Coates of the 7th Battalion during World War One. Also, some photographs of Egypt and two tins - one for cigarettes and one for butterscotch. Also, a 1942 diary kept during and after the fall of Singapore. Also, a medical notebook n.d.

3.0 cm.

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Coates, Albert Ernest, Sir, 1895-1977

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Albert Ernest Coates served as a medical orderly in 1914 and then saw action on Gallipoli and in France. He undertook medical studies after the war. In 1941 he was appointed lieutenant colonel and Senior Surgeon to the second AIF in Malaya. He became a prisoner of the Japanese and treated the prisoners of war on the Burma-Thailand Railway. From the description of Diaries, 1914-1918, 1942 [manuscript]. 1914-1918, 1942. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 635897863 ...