3DRL/3846 - Jackson, Dudley, MM (Private, b.1895 - d.1970)
- ID number
- 3DRL/3846
- Title
- Jackson, Dudley, MM (Private, b.1895 - d.1970)
- Maker
- Jackson, Dudley
- Object types
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- Documents;
- Photographs;
- Postcards;
- Typescript;
- Places made
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- Australia: Queensland, Nambour;
- North Africa: Egypt;
- Western Front;
- Date made
- 1915-1919; 1966
- Measurement
- 3 wallets; 9 cms
- Access
- Open
- Collection
- Private Record
- Description
- Collection relating to the First World War service of 2493 Private Dudley Jackson MM, 20 Battalion, Australia, Egypt, Western Front, 1915-1919. Collection consists of two notebooks containing Jackson's handwritten memoir of his military service; two typescript volumes entitled 'War Diary of D. Jackson' (each liberally illustrated with postcards and photographs); several small notes containing addenda to the typescript diary; a typescript letter, dated 13 February 1966, from William Henry Guard, a former member of 20 Battalion to Dudley Jackson; three coloured snapshots of headstones in the Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, France; a newspaper clipping featuring an informal review of Dudley Jackson's war diary.
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