MANUSCRIPT
Letter book
- Date
- 5 Oct 1914-6 Apr 1915
- By
- Malone, Denis George Withers, 1906-1983; Malone, William Bernard, 1908-1943; Temperley, Arthur Cecil, 1877-1940; Godley, Louisa Marion (Lady), -1939
- Reference
- MSX-2550
- Description
Army correspondence book records notes to Officer Commander (O/C), B Company, 5 Oct 1914. Notes on a military exercise in Karori, Wellington in early Oct 1914 including sketch maps. Letters start 7 Feb 1915 from Kubri, Egypt to his military commanders. Also weekly military reports and letters home to family and friends in New Zealand from Zeitoun Camp. Note on 8 Apr 1915 acknowledging a censor's stamp for the Wellington Battalion of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade, NZ and A Division. Last letter of volume on page 97 to Lady Godley regarding the care of the sick soldier "Gordon", written in Zeitoun Camp, 13 Mar 1915.
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) (98 pages).
Physical Description: Holograph, carbon copy pages (19 cm, Army correspondence book)
Volume includes ink sketches
Processing information: Digitisation details - Part of WW100 digitisation project. 60 digitised pages. Pages 50 and 51 include original and carbon copy pages. Some pages have been removed throughout the volume.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Transcripts available at MS-Papers-8538-12 and MSDL-0224
- 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) (98 pages), Manuscripts, Holograph, carbon copy pages (19 cm, Army correspondence book), Illustration: Volume includes ink sketches
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