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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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TRENCH MAP, 1:20,000 FRANCE. Sheet 36 NW. Edition 6 B. GSGS 2742. Ordnance Survey 1916. Trenches corrected to 5/5/1916

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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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IRREGULAR DIARY NOTES on a scrap of foolscap paper re FROMELLES

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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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Captured German Postcard illustrating FRICOURT CHATEAU, in ruins. Bob and Harold worked together in 2nd DIV HQ, in the château's basement for several months, late 1916. Then, on a warm night in August 1918, Harold was mortally wounded (gassed) near here, in Fricourt Woods. The photo of German troops at Fricourt Château was apparently discovered in the château after it was retaken and occupied by the Australian 2nd Division. The German photo of troops armed with their stick grenades was possibly also collected by Bob at Fricourt Château

From 30 Sep and 27 Nov 1916, Bob and Harold Snape worked together in 2nd Division HQ, in the basement of Fricourt Château, snape collection
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TIMELINE, WW1, BOB & HAROLD

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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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R.AN.B.T. and 12th Brigade A.F.A. FIELD DIARY from enlistment, 24 March 1915, to Harold's fatal gassing 15/16 August 1918. (TRANSCRIBED by Walter J R Barber)

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DIARY & LETTERS, from July 1915 to July 1919. TRANSCRIBED by Walter J R Barber). Bob's diaries and letters are mostly typed. Some letters were hand-written, in ink or pencil, on letter-headed paper. Page1 of Bob's original diary. 3 sample letter-heads

This collection of Bob Snape's diary and letters was transcribed because of the large body of material. 55 numbered letters (out of some 160 plus) survive. Many letters were typed. As a clerk in HQ, Bob had constant access to a type-writer, and sometimes said to his family that typing was much more efficient for him than writing by hand. There are many letters in hand-writing, some in ink , others in pencil. Some letters are on letter-headed paper, eg: YMCA, TSS (HMAT) 'Demosthenes', hotels, family in Wales.snape collection
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THE COOK FAMILY: BOB & HAROLD'S MATERNAL RELATIVES AND THEIR HISTORY as told by cousins, Jeff Miers and Marion ('Bab') Hulme and Bob Snape himself

The Cook family was vitally important to the Snape boys who seem to have enjoyed a specially close relationship with Grandfather, 'Charlie Cook the Carpenter' and this largely female branch of the family many of whom lived nearby in Moonee Ponds when the boys were young. Charlie Cook was born at Blackheath in England. He voyaged to the USA to seek his fortune on the Californian goldfields. Hence, he was known as a 'Forty-niner". From California, he sailed to Australia, fetching up in Hobart in 185........... where he met and married Eliza Gardiner...............snape collection
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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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SNAPE FAMILY HOME, 'BELMIERS', 91 BARKLY STREET, ESSENDON. 7 photos

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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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GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH to GOV'R GENERAL, SIR R.M. FERGUSON, PERSONAL LETTER (MANUSCRIPT) undated (but shortly after the Battle of Hamel, 4 July 1918)

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MONASH to GOV'R GENERAL (LETTER TRANSCRIBED)

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GASTETENERED COPY OF REPATRIATION of A.I.F. CONFERENCE.......... circa May 1918

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LETTER OF THANKS (in French) to GENERAL MONASH, dated 27 June 1918, from FRENCH INDUSTRIALIST

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PROPOSED ITINERARY FOR VISIT OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA, ON TUESDAY, 2ND JULY, 1918. (as scribed by Bob Snape)

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POEM, "In Memory of Herbert Smith KIA, October 1914" and POST CARD of Méteren village's "Needle-eyed chuch."

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

TRENCH MAP, 1:20,000 FRANCE. Sheet 36 NW. Edition 6 B. GSGS 2742. Ordnance Survey 1916. Trenches corrected to 5/5/1916

BOB: 'THE DAILY SKETCH', Tuesday 12 November 1918, Edition No. 3,019 - This Copy Free to the Soldier

IRREGULAR DIARY NOTES, Date unknown

IRREGULAR DIARY NOTES on a scrap of foolscap paper re FROMELLES

BOB & HAROLD: visiting the Pyramids, Egypt, February, 1916

TIMELINE, WW1, BOB & HAROLD

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH: 22.N.1559, Bapaume - Bancourt, Thilloy - Ligny Thilloy

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH, (Oblique shot of battlefield from Butte de Warlencourt, wrecked tank featured) 16/10/1916

Le Barque, Butte de Warlencourt, 22.N.1561, 16 Oct 1916

Ligny Thilloy, Thilloy, Bapaume, Bancourt. 22.N.1559, 16 Oct 1916

R.AN.B.T. and 12th Brigade A.F.A. FIELD DIARY from enlistment, 24 March 1915, to Harold's fatal gassing 15/16 August 1918. (TRANSCRIBED by Walter J R Barber)

DIARY & LETTERS, from July 1915 to July 1919. TRANSCRIBED by Walter J R Barber). Bob's diaries and letters are mostly typed. Some letters were hand-written, in ink or pencil, on letter-headed paper. Page1 of Bob's original diary. 3 sample letter-heads

THE COOK FAMILY: BOB & HAROLD'S MATERNAL RELATIVES AND THEIR HISTORY as told by cousins, Jeff Miers and Marion ('Bab') Hulme and Bob Snape himself

SNAPE FAMILY HOME, 'BELMIERS', 91 BARKLY STREET, ESSENDON. 7 photos

'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

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

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

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"]

GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH to GOV'R GENERAL, SIR R.M. FERGUSON, PERSONAL LETTER (MANUSCRIPT) undated (but shortly after the Battle of Hamel, 4 July 1918)

MONASH to GOV'R GENERAL (LETTER TRANSCRIBED)

GASTETENERED COPY OF REPATRIATION of A.I.F. CONFERENCE.......... circa May 1918

LETTER OF THANKS (in French) to GENERAL MONASH, dated 27 June 1918, from FRENCH INDUSTRIALIST

PROPOSED ITINERARY FOR VISIT OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA, ON TUESDAY, 2ND JULY, 1918. (as scribed by Bob Snape)