Bray war diaries, 1915-1919 / Alfred Ernest Cornelius Bray
Bray war diaries, 1915-1919 / Alfred Ernest Cornelius Bray
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Author / Creator
Date
1915-1919
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Physical Description
Contents
v., 1 (2") box
0.08 metres of textual material (4 volumes in box and 1 loose volume)
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Level of description
Sub-fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Items 1-4 stored in box
ITEM 01
Alfred Bray diary, 16 August 1915-23 August 1916
ITEM 02
Alfred Bray diary, 23 August 1916-19 August 1917
ITEM 03
Alfred Bray diary, August 1917-20 June 1918
ITEM 04
Alfred Bray diary, 19 June 1918-8 February 1919
ITEM 05 (loose volume)
Alfred Bray war memoirs, ca. 1914-1...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Bray war diaries, 1915-1919 / Alfred Ernest Cornelius Bray
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
Microfilm copy available at CY 4923, frames 1 - 253
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from A.E. Bray, 1921
Part of the European War Collecting Project (also known as the Soldiers' Diaries Collection or War Diaries Collection), established by the Trustees of the Mitchell Library in 1918
Administrative / Biographical history
Sergeant Alfred Bray, a clerk of Hurstville, N.S.W., enlisted at Holdsworthy, 23 Aug. 1915 at the age of 18. He served with the 18th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement and from Feb. 1916 with the 3rd Battalion in France and Belgium, Apr. 1916 - June 1918. He was wounded in action 21 Oct. 1917 and gassed 20 June 1918, returning to Australia on the Somali,...
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Primary Identifiers
Record Identifier
Yj7dPA79
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7dPA79
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Reference code
422386
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