MANUSCRIPT
Letter book
- Date
- 11 Jul-6 Aug 1915
- By
- Malone, Ida Katherine, 1875-; Johnston, Francis Earl, 1871-1917
- Reference
- MSX-2553
- Description
Letter book begins with pencil sketches of loopholes for Quinn's Post. First letter to Officer Commander F E Johnston on ANZAC defence. Detailed letter to Ida Malone on 11 Jul 1915 from Imbros while Malone was on leave in Pygros. Further letters to his wife, family members, friends in New Zealand and military colleagues. Final letter to Ida Malone at 10pm, 5 Aug 1915. Malone mentions preparing for the battle starting on the 6 Aug 1915 for Chunuk Bair, his affections for his wife, family and friends from Taranaki, and his general feelings on the state of the war in Gallipoli. Last entry in letter book is a note to the O/C Guard, Happy Valley on 6 Aug 1915 regarding his batman Private Smart returning to Quinn's Post to fetch Malone's tunic and other items.
Publication - Published as No better death: the great war diaries and letters of William G Malone : edited by John Crawford with Peter Cooke. (Auckland : Reed Books, 2005)
Quantity: 1 volume(s) (100 pages).
Physical Description: Holograph, carbon copy pages (19 cm, Army correspondence book)
Includes pencil sketches
Processing information: Digitisation details - Part of WW100 digitisation project. 88 digitised images. Pages 4, 50-53, 55, 77-78 are missing.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Transcripts available at MS-Papers-8538-15 and MSDL-0227
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Malone, William George (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1859-1915 : Diaries and letters
- Format
- 1 volume(s) (100 pages), Manuscripts, Holograph, carbon copy pages (19 cm, Army correspondence book), Illustration: Includes pencil sketches
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