Letter reporting Private Alfred Duncan wounded in action 5 April 1918 |
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| Title : | Letter reporting Private Alfred Duncan wounded in action 5 April 1918 |
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| Creator : | Australian Red Cross Society | ||
| Source : | Duncan family, PRG 544/18 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | Adelaide | ||
| Date of creation : | 1919 | ||
| Format : | Letter | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Copyright : | This item is reproduced courtesy of Mr Allen McDonald and the Australian Red Cross, South Australia. It may be printed or saved for research or study. Use for any other purpose requires written permission from Mr Allen McDonald and the Australian Red Cross, South Australia and the State Library of South Australia. To request approval, complete the Permission to publish form. |
| Description : |
The letter from the Australian Red Cross, South Australian Division, Information Bureau, reporting the details of Private Alfred Duncan's wounding during fighting at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918, as witnessed by another soldier, Private D. W. R. Whiteoak. The battle at Dernancourt was part of the March 1918 offensive with Australian troops commanded to hold the vital areas of Dernancourt and Villers-Bretonneux from German capture. View Duncan's AIF service record [National Archives of Australia] |
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| Related names : | Duncan, Emily Whiteoak, D. W. R. Private Australian Red Cross Society. South Australian Division. Information Bureau |
| Coverage year : | 1918 |
| Region : | Adelaide city |
| Further reading : | Carlyon, Les The great war, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2006 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 Macdougall, Anthony Australians at war: a pictorial history, Nobel Park, Vic.: Five Mile Press, 2002 Manning, Geoffrey H. Alms across the sea: a tale of two towns [Adelaide: G. Manning, 1999?] |
| Internet links : | 1918 Australians in France [previous exhibition from Australian War Memorial] Australian War Memorial: Australians in France 1918: Dernancourt and Villers-Bretonneux AIF Database: Australian Anzacs in the Great War 1914-1918 [Australian Defence Force Academy] Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs] |
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