| Call Number |
ACC 3471A/34-80,140-141 |
| Physical description |
52 postcards : black and white, some colour ; 9 x 14 cm or smaller |
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1 online resource (104 image files) : digital, TIFF |
| Series |
WWI Centenary Project.
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| Access advisory |
Available for reference; not for loan. |
| Cite As |
Battye Library, MN 1165, Papers of Leslie Turner, ACC 3471A/34-80,140-141 |
| Biography/history |
Served in France during World War I. |
| Finding Aids |
Detailed listing available (MN 1165) |
| Summary |
Postcards sent by Leslie Turner to his parents and sister May when he was at Bovington Camp and K6 Worgret Camp, Wareham, Dorset, England with a visit to Southampton from 20 October 1916 to 4 March 1917. He briefly mentions having a staff job at Wareham, experience of soldiers at the Somme, America entering the war, a German submarine attack, a successful war loan, advance of the British, his pay book, having his toiletries stolen, injury to Capt. Jack Roydhouse. |
| Subjects |
Turner, Leslie, 1894-1918 -- Correspondence.
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Soldiers -- Western Australia -- Correspondence.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works.
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Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
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| Genre/Form |
Photographic postcards.
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| Related names |
Turner, Walter Money, addressee.
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Turner, May, addressee.
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Turner, Frances, addressee.
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| Found In |
James Leslie Turner World War I postcards collection MN 1165 |
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