Shapland, Percy Edwin (Private, d.1915) and Reginald Reed (Private, d.1917)

Papers of brothers No 359 Private Percy Edwin Shapland (8th Battalion) and No 968 Private Reginald Reed Shapland (6th Light Trench Mortar Battery) of Arawata Victoria, killed at Gallipoli and France respectively. Percy's papers include: three diaries, one on loose sheets, covering part or all of the period August 1914 - January 1915, and a typed transcription, which amalgamates all three (they describe his enlistment and training in Australia, and voyage on the "Benalla" to and training in Egypt at Mena Camp, and include notes on the Sydney-Emden encounter); letters to his mother from Egypt; photographs of him and his family; official and private correspondence (including from the YMCA) detailing his wounding by shrapnel on Gallipoli on 4 May 1915 and subsequent death in Ghezireh Hospital at Alexandria); photocopies of his service papers and certificates from the King; news clippings concerning his and his brother's deaths. Reginald's papers include: embroidered postcards to his family; Red Cross and private letters concerning his death from a sniper's bullet in May 1917 during the battle of Bullecourt; certificates (as above).