World War 1 diaries of James Churchill-Smith - Volumes 2-5: Western Front |
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| Title : | World War 1 diaries of James Churchill-Smith - Volumes 2-5: Western Front |
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| Creator : | Churchill-Smith, James, 1894-1968 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1915-1919 | ||
| Format : | Diary | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Diaries kept by Captain (later Major) James Churchill-Smith during his service in the A.I.F. in France, covering 11 November 1916 - 1 January 1920. Read a PDF of these diaries:Volume 2, 11 November 1916 - 31 December 1917: pages 1-99 (3.9MB), pages 100-199 (3.7MB) and pages 200-268 (2.6MB) or view the full transcript.Volume 3, 1 January 1918 - 31 December 1918: pages 1-99 (3.6MB), pages 100-199 (3.7MB) and pages 200-243 (1.6MB) or view the full transcript.Volume 4, Newspaper cuttings and letters, with an account of the attack on Noreuil on 2 April 1917: pages 1-99 (4.4MB), pages 100-199 (3MB)and pages 200-270 (2.6MB) or view the full transcript.Volume 5, 1 January 1919 - 1 January 1920: pages 1-99 (3.2MB), pages 100-199 (2.9MB) and pages 200-288 (2.5MB) or view the full transcript.Churchill-Smith was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Cross and Bar to Military Cross during his service. View his AIF Service Record [National Archives of Australia] |
| Period : | 1914-1918 |
| Further reading : | Beaumont, Joan. Broken nation : Australians in the Great War, Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2013 Burness, Peter. Fromelles and The Somme : Australians on the Western Front - 1916, Canberra : A.C.T. : Dept. of Veterans' Affairs, 2006 Carlyon, Les. The great war, Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2006 Cochrane, Peter. Australians at war, Sydney : ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001 Gammage, Bill. The broken years : Australian soldiers in the Great War, Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books, 1990 Kent, David. From trench and troopship : the experience of the Australian Imperial Force, 1914-1919, Alexandria, N.S.W. : Hale & Iremonger , 1999 Luckins, Tanja. The gates of memory : Australian people's experiences and memories of loss in the Great War, Fremantle, W.A. : Curtin University Books, 2004 Macdougall, Anthony. Australians at war : a pictorial history, Nobel Park, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2002 Travers, Richard C. Diggers in France : Australian soldiers on the Western Front, Sydney, N.S.W. : ABC Books, 2008 |
| Internet links : | World War 1 diaries of James Churchill-Smith - Volume 1: Gallipoli 1918 Australians in France [previous exhibition from Australian War Memorial] AIF Database: Australian Anzacs in the Great War 1914-1918 [Australian Defence Force Academy] Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: World War 1 Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs] Australian War Memorial See: Australians at War: Australian Military History Overview: First World War 1914-1918 Australian Army History Unit [Department of Defence]: See: History in focus [several sections about World War One] Official history of Australia in the war of 1914-1918 [Australian War Memorial] RSL Virtual War Memorial: James Churchill-Smith Victorians at War - Oral History project [Department of Veterans' Affairs and State Library of Victoria] World War I and its Aftermath 1914 - 1921 [New South Wales High School Certificate (HSC) online] |
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