423115
- TitleThe Australian Light Horse in the Great War. A short history of the Desert Mounted Corps, 1919
- Creator
- Call numberMLMSS 575
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Type of material
- Reference code423115
- Issue CopyDigitised : 2013
- Physical Description1 volume of textual material
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
The Desert Mounted Corps was created in June 1917 from three Cavalry Divisions of the so called Desert Column. It was finally broken up 7 June 1919 - Collection historyPresented 9 March 1922. Accessioned at MLMSS 575, 25 June 1968, "From Soldiers' Diaries Collection" (Manuscripts accession card index). The ML donations register for 1922 (ML 203) has an entry dated 9 March for a donation from "Miss Austin, S.M.H. offices Hunter Street. Typescript, Australian Light Horse in the Great War. 1 MS". Fanny May Austin was the first librarian at John Fairfax & Sons (Kudrna, S. "Books, what books?". NLS 08 – New Librarians Symposium: Breaking Barriers. Melbourne, 5–6 December 2008. Accessed at conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2008/Papers/Kudrna.doc, 2 December 2013). Austin is incorrectly spelled "Austen" in the ML Manuscripts accession register and accession card index, and in the donor bookplate in MLMSS 575. No in-letters or out-letters relating to this donation are found in the relevant records at ML 78, ML 84, and ML 11.
- Scope and ContentDescribes i.a. action in Egypt and Palestine
- Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder<br> - Description source
Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (7-563 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011 - General note
Duplicated typescripts
Available for reference
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
Digital order no:Album ID : 1067849 - Attributions / conjectures
"F. Austen" [i.e. Austin] is entered into the columns both for author and donor in ML Manuscripts accession register, and is given an author entry in the Manuscripts accession card index as well as being recorded as the donor. Authorship of this unsigned typescript is attributed to Fanny May Austin on this basis, November 2013. - Name
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