Verdi George Schwinghammer First World War diary, including Tom Cross drawings, 6 May 1916-26 Septem...
Verdi George Schwinghammer First World War diary, including Tom Cross drawings, 6 May 1916-26 Septem...
Verdi George Schwinghammer First World War diary, including Tom Cross drawings, 6 May 1916-26 September 1919
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1916-1919, printed ca 1940
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9812
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts, Pictures and Drawings
Physical Description
Contents
0.03 metres of textual material (1 volume)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Arrangement
Drawings are not arranged chronologically in the diary.
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright
Research & study copies allowed : Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
The diary by Verdi George Schwinghammer with original watercolours by T. Cross and discharge certificate was written after his return to Australia based on the diaries he kept while serving. Subjects include: training and travelling, combat, hospital treatment, and leave in Paris and London.
Interspersed throughout the diary, from frontispie...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Verdi George Schwinghammer First World War diary, including Tom Cross drawings, 6 May 1916-26 September 1919
Notes
General note
Another version of this diary was acquired by the Library in 1968 (MLMSS 1683). Other versions are also held by the Australian War Memorial and the State Library of Queensland.
Signature / Inscriptions
Front free endpaper: signed by the author top right; signed “(Mrs) G. A. Taylor / 30 Princess St / Taringa” bottom left corner.
Most drawings signed “T.Cross”, some initialled “T.C.”
Attributions / Conjectures
The Australian War Memorial holds information about a soldier artist named Tom Cross, as well as six artworks by this Tom Cross. His cartoons and drawings depicted life aboard the troop ships, training in Egypt and scenes of the battlefields of France and Belgium. Some were reproduced as postcards and others were published in Punch magazine. The Au...
Contextual Information
Source
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Sergio Zampatti, 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
Verdi George Schwinghammer (d. 1965) was from Grafton and enlisted into the AIF in 1916 and was in the 42nd Battalion serving in Europe until his discharge in September 1919. It appears several versions of the diary were written and the Australian War Memorial, the State Library of NSW and the State Library of Queensland all hold other copies.
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Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9812
Record Identifier
9ALZjQ5Y
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9ALZjQ5Y
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1000801
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