• Title
  Item 01: Arthur Edward Matthews war narrative, 1916-1917
• Call number
  MLMSS 8917/Box 1/Item 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1916-1917
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1027057
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  1 folder
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Arthur Edward Matthews, a gunsmith of Battersea, London enlisted with the A.I.F. at Liverpool, N.S.W. aged 24, 3 Jan. 1916. He was wounded in action 20 Apr. 1918 and returned to Australia on the Karoa 28 Mar. 1919
• Scope and Content
  ‘The Campaign on the Somme in the Winter of 1916-17.' Typewritten narrative of events in France while serving with the 3rd Battalion, including his promotions to lance corporal, corporal and sergeant, with graphic descriptions of trench warfare in Picardy, Albert, Bapaume and with the 1st Brigade at Bullecourt, May 1917
• Access Conditions
  
  This material is held offsite and is usually available after 4pm on the next business day. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D26829/a7948.html
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1027064
• Name
  Karoa (ship)
  
• Subject
  Soldiers--Diaries.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3150795

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