Thomas George Atkinson the autobiography of a Tasmanian engineer at home and abroad, ca. 1974
Thomas George Atkinson the autobiography of a Tasmanian engineer at home and abroad, ca. 1974
Thomas George Atkinson the autobiography of a Tasmanian engineer at home and abroad, ca. 1974
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1974
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MLMSS 3064
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2 volumes of textual material
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Copyright status : In copyright
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Digitised : 2014
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Contents
Describes his youth in Hobart and Campbell Town, Tasmania, with descriptions of early trains, motor-cars and his apprenticeship at the railway workshops, Hobart, his work as a marine engineer in Glasgow after leaving Hobart in 1912, including trials of battle-cruisers Sydney and Australia, service with British forces at Gallipoli and Flanders durin...
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Thomas George Atkinson the autobiography of a Tasmanian engineer at home and abroad, ca. 1974
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State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I papers
Digital order no:Album ID : 1064061
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Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (7-991C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
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Administrative / Biographical history
T. G. Atkinson spent his early life in Hobart and after his engineering apprenticeship, left for Glasgow in 1912. He served at Gallipoli and in Belgium in World War, 1914-1918, after which he worked in Canada, Africa, India and China
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MLMSS 3064
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9gkdmq49
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913092
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