• Title
  Observations of No. 5886 / Hugh Orwin Monteith
• Creator
  Hugh O. Monteith
• Call number
  MLMSS 3696
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1981
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  896955
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.04 metres of textual material (1 volume)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Hugh Orwin Monteith, survey draughtsman of Marrickville, New South Wales was born in Castlemaine, Victoria and enlisted aged 17 years, 13 Oct. 1915. He embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A62 Wandilla, 9 Nov. 1915 and served in Egypt, France and Belgium with the 3rd Battery, 1st Field Artillery Brigade. He was wounded in action 31 July 1917, gassed, 6 Nov. 1917 and wounded in Belgium, 10 Aug. 1917. He returned to Australia 12 Apr. 1919
• Scope and Content
  Memoirs relating to active service in 3rd Battery, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, in Egypt
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright<br>
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder<br>
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I material
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1261088
• Name
  Wandilla (ship)
  Australian Field Artillery
  
• Subject
  Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
  
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