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Accession Number | PR83/110 |
Collection type | Private Record |
Record type | Collection |
Measurement | 1 box: 10 cm |
Object type | Papers |
Maker |
Bostock, Henry Phillips |
Date made | 1915-1919 |
Access | Open |
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM315 419/011/045 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Bostock, Henry Phillips (Sergeant, b.1895)
Description
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1310 Sergeant Henry (Harry) Phillips Bostock, 10 Australian Light Horse. Collection consists of an extensive set of diaries, notebooks, letters, lettercards, postcards and telegrams written to his family. The diaries cover his enlistment; duties with 3 LH Bde scouts at Romani, Magdhaba, Rafa and Gaza; comments on Beersheba and Es Sale; details of specialist sniper training and scouting activities; later references to the Turkish Armistice and Arab unrest; and his return to Australia. Also included are a large number of negatives, taken at the time by Sgt Bostock.
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Places
- Africa: Egypt
- Africa: Egypt, Frontier, Sinai, Magdhaba
- Africa: Egypt, Frontier, Sinai, Rafa
- Africa: Egypt, Frontier, Sinai, Romani Area, Romani
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Beersheba
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Gaza
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Transjordan, Es Salt
- Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Blackboy Hill