| Other title |
Black Boy Hill to Dickiebusch |
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Guns on the Western Front |
| Physical description |
1 volume (2 unnumbered leaves, 42 leaves, 13 leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves, 2 leaves, 13 unnumbered leaves), 2 x-rays, 1 postcard. |
| Series |
WWI Centenary Project
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| Notes |
Title devised by cataloguer. |
| Access advisory |
Available for reference; not for loan. |
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For preservation purposes, access to originals is restricted. |
| Cite As |
State Library of Western Australia, Westley Bellingham Maley war memoirs, ACC 9141A. |
| Rights advisory |
Copyright or other restrictions may apply. For public use, contact the State Library of Western Australia. |
| Biography/history |
Westley Maley was born in Albany, Western Australia. A bushman, he joined the Australian Imperial Force on 15 August 1916 as a gunner in the 10th Field Artillery Brigade and served on the Western Front. He was discharged as medically unfit owing to a gunshot wound in the chest and returned to Australia in June 1918. |
| Summary |
Typescript memoir, written by Westley Bellingham Maley. He relates his experiences during his World War I service. "To my dear nephew James Addison Harwood from Uncle West" is written in pen on the first page. The memoir is written in two parts, part one: "Black Boy Hill to Dickiebusch" and part two: "Guns on the Western Front". The x-rays show a piece of shrapnel which pierced the diaphragm and lodged in Maley's chest. The postcard is of the hospital ship "Wandilla". Maley has written in pencil on it, describing his trip from Bristol to Alexandria, where he was transferred to the General Hospital. From there he continued from Suez to Fremantle on the Australian hospital ship Koroola. |
| Subjects |
Maley, Westley Bellingham -- Archives.
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Soldiers -- Western Australia -- Archives.
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Australia. Army. Field Artillery Brigade, 10th. Reinforcement, 10th.
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Australia. Army -- Gunners.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Western Australian.
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