Letters from David Gerald Evans to his family, 1915

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Accession Number AWM2018.785.60
Collection number AWM2017.1366.1
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 1
Object type Letter, Photograph
Physical description 44 Image/s captured
Maker Evans, David Gerald
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows, Broadmeadows Camp, Egypt
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
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Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.
Description

File of letters relating to the First World War service of Second Lieutenant David Gerald Evans, 22nd Infantry Battalion. Known as Gerald at home, these letters written between February and December 1915 mention: his training in camps at Broadmeadows and in Zeitoun, Egypt; sightseeing while in Egypt; meeting people from home in the camps; the rumors he hears in camp and his frustration with the censorship rules for letters home. Also included are photographs possibly taken by Evans while stationed in Egypt.

This file contains:
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Minnie [his sister], Redcamp, Friday [12 February 1915];
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Father, Melbourne, 16 February 1915;
Letter From D Gerald Evans to Mother, Depot PO Broadmeadows, Wednesday [February 1915];
Lettercard from David Gerald Evans to Mother, Officer school of instruction, Broadmeadows, Sunday [11 April 1915];
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Father, Depot Camp Seymour, Sunday [May 1915];
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Minnie, Reinforcements Broadmeadows, Monday [20 September 1915];
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Mother, 26 October 1915 [includes envelope];
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Mother, Zeitoun, Sunday, 1 November 1915;
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Mother, 7 November 1915 [includes envelope];
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Father, Zeitoun Camp, 8 November 1915 [includes envelope];
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Mother, Zeitoun, Egypt, 28 November 1915;
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Minnie [his sister], Zeitoun, Egypt, 14 December 1915;
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Mother, Aerodrome camp, Heliopolis, 19 December 1915;
Letter from David Gerald Evans to Mother, Aerodrome camp, Heliopolis, 25 December 1915;
Photograph of a hut with the sign Australia post office;
Photograph of two men in camp;
Photograph of soldiers and supplies;
Photograph of Egyptian men getting on a boat.