Weaber family papers, 1917-1918
Weaber family papers, 1917-1918
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Date
1917-1918
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MLMSS 9107
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0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)
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Fonds
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Copyright status : In copyright
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Digitised : 2014
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Read the transcript here: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D25586/a9500.html
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Contents
21 letters from Trooper William Victor Weaber to his mother (Mrs Bilney) and Aunt and back home in Kojonup. The letters date from February 1917 to May 1918, the final letter being written from the hospital in Port Said where he was to die from his wounds a short time later. Weaber had been shot in the thigh by a Turkish bullet at Es Salt. The lette...
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Full title
Weaber family papers, 1917-1918
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Notes
General note
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters
Digital order no:Album ID : 1074713
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books in June 2013
Administrative / Biographical history
Trooper William Victor Weaber (1881 – 1918) of the 9th (and later 10th) Australian Light Horse Regiment, A.I.F., 26th Reinforcement Morea Group, embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on board RMS Morea and served in Egypt and Palestine. Trooper Weaber was a 35 year old sheep farmer from Kojonup, Western Australia, who left behind his wife Elea...
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MLMSS 9107
Record Identifier
1LjRjdr9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1LjRjdr9
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Reference code
1045805
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