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Trip to Brussels - January 1919
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TIMELINE of MAJOR BATTLES on the WESTERN FRONT with Australian participation highlighted in green
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HAROLD: MANUSCRIPT FIELD DIARY, HAROLD: MANUSCRIPT FIELD DIARY (unabridged) from enlistment in March 1915 to 12 August 1918 (3 days before he was mortally gassed at Fricourt in Somme district)
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Pre-WW1 Correspondence HAROLD to BOB & JT SNAPE (father) to BOB, Jan'y 1906. 'My first trip to Nyora' (Bob: short story)
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Map, 1:100,000 LENS Edition 2, 1915, Minor Corrections 27/10/1916
Topographical Map. Full colour. Attached by glue to matching copy of 1:100,000 map sheet, 'Amiens' (as per 9002-Bob).snape collection -
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Map 1:10,000 GHELUVELT Edition 6 B (Local) GSGS 3062 Ordnance Survey July 1917 Trenches corrected to 12/9/1917
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'AREA OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, July to October 1916'........... The Times History of the War- Part 120 (no date of publication). Bob, Harold and cousin, Leslie Snape, are all referenced to some woods near the city of ALBERT: Leslie to Mametz Wood (Battle of the Somme) , and Bob and Harold to Fricourt Wood (Sep. to Oct.1916; and Aug.1918.)
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Bob Snape's HAND-DRAWN MAP of ERQUINGHAM-SUR -LYS, FRANCE, centring on 6th Field Ambulance base
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH, (Vertical shot of battle field, shelled/bombed out village) 30/9/1916, 3.C.1159, N7. 20.B &C
Original Item recovered from possibly Australian Corps HQ, probably between the Armistice, 11 November 1918, and June 1919, when the Staff Sergeant R.O.(Bob) Snape was repatriated.Sepia photograph showing shelled/bombed out village with all roofs blown in.snape collection -
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PICTURE POSTCARDS, FRANCE, WW1 (280 approx)
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PICTURE POSTCARDS, BELGIUM, WW1. (110 Approx.)
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Propaganda tract, produced by Bob, 20 September 1918. Perhaps much later in life, it was retracted and dismissed as "All rot!" in a hand-written, blue 'Censor's pencil-note across the typing. A second version suggests that the victims of the booby-trapped body were Belgian soldiers
This little piece of Allied Propaganda was written not long after the death of Bob's much loved brother and comrade. Perhaps it was composed in grief and bitterness, but later regretted and disowned, as not being worthy of himself.snape collection -
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POEM, "In Memory of Herbert Smith KIA, October 1914" and POST CARD of Méteren village's "Needle-eyed chuch."
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PICTURE POSTCARDS, WALES during WW1. On 'Blighty Leave', Bob and Harold had stayed with Uncle Robert Snape and family in South Wales, where uncle Robert was a coal-mining engineer....please see attached: ROBERT SNAPE (Snr) Illuminated Address and its transcription
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BOB: 'THE DAILY SKETCH', Tuesday 12 November 1918, Edition No. 3,019 - This Copy Free to the Soldier
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IRREGULAR DIARY NOTES, Date unknown
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POSTCARD 29 December 1915 to MADGE from H.M.A.T. 'DEMOSTHENES' just after embarkation. Secretly married, Bob addresses his wife as 'Miss McLaughlin' c/- her parents. PICTURE POSTCARD of 8th Reinforcements, 6th Field Ambulance, photographed on board the Demosthenes. Every member's name has been carefully recorded by Bob on the reverse side. PHOTOS x 2: Fancy Dress on board Demosthenes. POSTCARD 2 January 1919 to MADGE from Belgium. By this stage, Madge had stopped writing to Bob after she was shown Bob's '2nd Trip to Paris' letter (15 August 1918) by her mother-in-law. By now, Bob had virtually given up on the marriage
This is one of the very few surviving pieces of correspondence between Bob and his wife, Madge. Bob destroyed the bulk of such correspondence between the pair, although some of Bob's typed letter/stories that Bob sent to Madge survived, pasted into a large hard-backed journal, and later passed on to grand-daughter, Margaret Davey. The Registry Office marriage was a secret business. Perhaps an Irish nationalist, Madge's father, Andrew McLaughlin, had absolutely forbidden any of his daughters to marry a soldier. The Snapes were taken by surprise too and Madge wore the wedding ring on a string about her neck. Bob wrote to Madge McLaughlin c/- her parents's home in at 22 Hull Street, Richmond (near West Richmond Railway Station).Picture Postcard.snape collection -
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BOB & HAROLD: visiting the Pyramids, Egypt, February, 1916
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FIVE 5 PHOTOS: BOB & HAROLD at the various stages of their War service: Bob as Stretcher Bearer with the 6th Field Ambulance and later as Confidential Clerk to General Sir John Monash, GOC Australian Corps; Harold as A/B Driver, R.A.NB.T. serving at Gallipoli and, later, as 2nd Lieutenant, 47th Battery, 12th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. The image of Mother (Rosina Snape) and her two soldier boys was prominently displayed at home, on the mantle-piece
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH: 22.N.1559, Bapaume - Bancourt, Thilloy - Ligny Thilloy
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH, (Oblique shot of battlefield from Butte de Warlencourt, wrecked tank featured) 16/10/1916
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Le Barque, Butte de Warlencourt, 22.N.1561, 16 Oct 1916
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Ligny Thilloy, Thilloy, Bapaume, Bancourt. 22.N.1559, 16 Oct 1916
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9 SNAPE FAMILY PHOTOS: The parents - John T. Snape and Rosina (née Cook) married Christmas Day 1890; the children- Bob (born 1892), Harold (born 1893) and Frank (born 1895); and Margaret ('Madge',née McLaughlin), Bob's wife (secretly married before Bob's embarkation); Cook family (maternal side) portrait; 'Belmiers', the family home in Barkly Street, Essendon, circa WW1 (then and now); Isobel Miers, the Snapes' favourite young cousin after whom the house was named. Uncle Robert Snape, coal-mining engineer, Wales
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'MADGE' Margaret Therese (née McLaughlin), born 1890, Bob's wife (secretly married at Registry Office) 21 Sep 1915, 3 months before Bob's embarkation. 5 photos
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CORRESPONDENCE: (Postcard January 1916 H in camp in Ismailia, Egypt.) Letters: 16 February 1916, 7 June 1916, 1 July 1918, 12 August 1918. Postcards: Elysée Restaurant, North British Railway Hotel, La Bohème
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AWM collection, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10427.022/, H visiting a gun crew on Gallipoli, circa 29 November 1915, following the snow-storm
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HAROLD: GASSED at Fricourt Wood, Somme district, France, on 15/16 August and DIED, 19 August 1918). Matron K. Roscoe's correspondence to Harold's parents, 18 & 19 August 1918. Bob's letter home 31 August 1918. Met. Report for 17 August 1918. Harold's grave at St Sever Cemetry, near Rouen, France. Harold's 'Dead Man's Penny'. The Grieving Mother's Brooch made by a Nurse for Rosina Snape. The King's condolences. Harold's posthumous Commission as 2nd Lieutenant
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STORIES / ESSAYS....... 'On leave in PARIS'. [N.B: 'My 2nd Trip to Paris' (typed) has a pencilled cautionary note at the head of page 1: "Don't let this out of your possession. It is far too personal for any eyes save yours and Mother's and Frank's"]
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GASTETENERED COPY OF REPATRIATION of A.I.F. CONFERENCE.......... circa May 1918
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