• Title
  Sketches of the Somme, 1917 / 2453, J Marshall Pte., 53rd Battn., A.I.F. [sketchbook]
• Creator
  James Joseph Marshall, 1899-1959
• Call number
  PXA 381 (v.2)
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1916-1917
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  69835
• Physical Description
  1 album (29 pencil drawings, 1 col. drawing) - 23 x 29.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Title page
  3. Le Transloy Church [ruins] - Auchonvillers Church [ruins]
  5. Ovillers Church [ruins] - Vaux Church [ruins]
  7. Fremicourt Church [ruins] - Mailly Maillet Church
  9. Beaulaincourt Church [ruins]
  11. Albert, top of church tower - Albert Church
  13. `The first night in ... ' [cartoon]
  14. Villers Bretonneux
  15. Mass on a French sector of the line
  17. `On the duckboards ... ' [cartoon] - `It's a pity we got blowed out o' that German trench ... ' [cartoon]
  19. `Officer looking for his unit ... ' - `One of those "adorable? ANZACS" ... ' [cartoons]
  21. Going back to Billets and Estaminets ... [cartoon]
  23. Bathing on the Somme [cartoon]
  25. ` ... Outpost, Zenith Trench' - ` ... Bullecourt' [cartoons]
  27. [cartoon]
  29. The troopships departure and other days 14/9/16
  31. Ration fatigue, Endless Alley - Types of Hun prisoners ...
  33. The (K)night of the bath, Bullecourt 21/5/17
  35. Recollection during a lull in the fight, Bullecourt, 19/5/17
  37. `E's a sport all right ... ' [cartoon]
  
  38. He loves me! He loves me not!
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder<br>
• General note
  
  The diary of James Joseph Marshall is available at Location number: MLMSS 1164 Mitchell Library
  A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1023980
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All sketches are titled
  Most sketches are initialled and dated
• Name
  Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)
  Western Front Campaign (1914-1918)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  armies
  campaigns & battles
  cartoons
  churches
  Germans
  prisoners of war
  religious ceremonies
  ruins
  troopships
  war damage
  
• Place
  France
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Life Interrupted: Personal Diaries from World War I - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 21 September, 2014)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9861421

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