Poem from letter written by Len Hussey |
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| Title : | Poem from letter written by Len Hussey |
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| Creator : | Hussey, Leonard | ||
| Source : | Dodd family, PRG 244/9 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1915 | ||
| Format : | Letter | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Poem from a letter written by Len Hussey to his friend Wally Dodd from France in October 1917. Leonard Hussey, a driver, enlisted on 23 August 1915 aged 40. A member of the 50th Battalion he served in France suffering considerably from frostbite and scabies. He returned to Australia in 1919. View Len Hussey's AIF service record [National Archives of Australia] |
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| Related names : | Dodd, Walter J. Hussey, Leonard, 1874-1941 |
| Period : | 1914-1918 |
| Further reading : | Seal, Graham (ed.). Echoes of Anzac : the voice of Australians at war, South Melbourne : Lothian Books, 2005 Seal, Graham. Digger folksong and verse of World War One : an annotated anthology, Mt Hawthorn, W.A. : Published for the Centre for Australian Studies, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, by The Antipodes Press, 1991 |
| Internet links : | 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] |
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