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Description: | Ts transcription (6pp) of a letter written to his mother while serving as a private with the 4th Australian Field Ambulance AIF, undated but describing his involvement in the evacuation of Suvla Bay, Gallipoli in December 1915, referring to preparations for the evacuation and the various methods used to convince the Turks that the force was remaining on the Peninsula. Together with photocopies of a sheet (1p) of 5 photographs from 1918 showing ANZAC troops on patrol in Palestine and captured Turks; an ms letter (2pp) from his brother Gordon Hanson to the Officer Commanding Australian Light Horse, declaring his intention to enlist; and an ms letter (1p) to Gordon Hanson, now a Trooper with the 5th Regiment, 2nd Light Horse Brigade, regarding the delivery of a horse.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2001-06-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hanson, R G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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