• Title
  Smyth war narrative, 28 March-12 June 1919 / A. McVicker Smyth
• Creator
  A. McVicker Smyth
• Call number
  MLMSS 3041
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  28 March-12 June 1919
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  873558
• Physical Description
  0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Private Alan McVicker Smyth, a clerk of Sydney, New South Wales enlisted aged 19 years, 20 June 1916 and embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on 7 October 1916. He served in France from 1916 with the 4th Australian Infantry battalion. He took part in the Allied offensive 8 Aug.-6 Oct. 1918 in the Abbeville area of France. After the Armistice he served in Belgium before returning to Australia on the Boorora, 6 July 1919
• Scope and Content
  Describes the Allied offensive and the collapse of the Hindenburg Line 8 Aug.-6 Oct. 1916, giving some details of battle formations, the number of prisoners taken and guns captured
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2012/D16220/a6201.htm
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
  Digital order no:Album ID : 997503
• Name
  Ceramic (Troopship)
  Boorora (ship)
  
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
  Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
  Soldiers--Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE589608

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