Barwick diaries, 22 August 1914 - 26 January 1919 / Archie Barwick

sub-fonds

22 August 1914 - 26 January 1919

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Digitised : 2012

0.42 metres of textual material (3 boxes) - manuscript

Tasmanian-born Archibald (Archie) Albert Barwick was a farmer of Surveyors Creek, New England, New South Wales when he enlisted at the age of 24, Aug. 1914. He embarked from Sydney on board Transport A19 Afric, 18 Oct. 1914 and disembarked in Egypt for training on 9 December and served as a Corporal, later Sergeant, in C Company, 1st Battalion, A.I.F. He embarked for the Dardenelles on 4 April 1915 and fought there in the Gallipoli campaign. From 1916 to 1918 he served in France and Belgium and was wounded on 5 Nov. 1916, again on 8 April 1917 and again on 5 Apr. 1918. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, July 1918. After convalescence he left England for Australia December 1918.
Service number 914 (reference: National Archives of Australia).

9 diaries, 22 August 1914-19 May 1917
MLMSS 1493/Box 1/Items 1-9 (Request microfilm: CY 2469, frames 1 - 833)

3 diaries, 26 March 1917-12 April 1918
MLMSS 1493/Box 2/Items 10-12 (Request microfilm: CY 2470, frames 1 - 325)

4 diaries, 25 April 1918-26 January 1919
MLMSS 1493/Box 3/Items 13-16 (Request microfilm: CY 2471, frames 1 - 330)

Copyright status:: In copyright
Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
Rights and Restrictions Information:: May be copied for reference and publication
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South

Microfilm available : Refer to Contents for location numbers
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
Some of the diaries were written retrospectively and in some the chronology of events is inconsistent.