War diary of Louis Willyama Avery |
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Title : | War diary of Louis Willyama Avery |
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Creator : | Avery, Louis Willyama, 1891- | ||
Date of creation : | 1914-1918 | ||
Format : | Diary | ||
Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Copyright : | This item is reproduced courtesy of Bob Avery. It may be printed or saved for research or study. Use for any other purpose requires written permission from Bob Avery and the State Library of South Australia. To request approval, complete the Permission to publish form. |
Description : |
Copy of Louis Willyama Avery's war diary, 16 October 1914 to 8 April 1918. The original diary was written on numbered pages 7-137 and may be incomplete. Read a PDF of this diary:Part 1: 16 October 1914 - 17 February 1917 (3.1 MB) |
Period : | 1914-1918 |
Further reading : | Beaumont, Joan. Broken nation : Australians in the Great War, Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2013 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 |
Internet links : | View National Archives of Australia content relating to Louis Willyama Avery on their Mapping our Anzacs website Extracts from Louis Willyama Avery's diary feature on A World Away - South Australia's War, a website published by History SA 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] 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] |