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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchMap 1:10,000 GHELUVELT Edition 6 B (Local) GSGS 3062 Ordnance Survey July 1917 Trenches corrected to 12/9/1917
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Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch1:250,000 COMPOSITE WALL-MAP NORTHWEST EUROPE. Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1914
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...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.Cloth-backed paper. 6 map sheets glued together to form one large wall map of NW Europe, covering from Normandy beaches to Cologne and Paris to Strasbourg.snape collection -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch'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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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchBob Snape's HAND-DRAWN MAP of ERQUINGHAM-SUR -LYS, FRANCE, centring on 6th Field Ambulance base
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchBOB: Map - 1:13,000, YPRES, Yperen, p.40, 'Baedeker's Belgium and Holland',1905,14th Edition (English), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1905
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...Bob Snape always included in his kit a few second hand Baedeker's guide books, as well as the 'Belgium and Holland' volume. Bob was a keen observer and commentator and used these guide books as any interested tourist. Bob's letters home often made reference to the history, culture and architecture of the countries he visited in the course of the war. Bob's English born father had lived and worked in France from 1878 to 1880 before his emigration to Australia.Two tone map in orange, grey and black. snape collection -
Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchAERIAL PHOTOGRAPH, (Oblique shot of battlefield) 30/9/1916, LE BARQUE...... LIGNY THILLOY....... THILLOY, 22.N.1514
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...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 trench lines, gun emplacements, landscape peppered with shell craters.snape collection -
Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchAERIAL PHOTOGRAPH, (Vertical shot of battle field, shelled/bombed out village) 30/9/1916, 3.C.1159, N7. 20.B &C
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...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 -
Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchAERIAL PHOTOGRAPH, (Oblique shot of battle field, with shelled/bombed out vilage) 30/9/1916, 3.C.1151, N.26. 6d. 25d
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...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.snape collection -
Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchPICTURE POSTCARDS, FRANCE, WW1 (280 approx)
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchPICTURE POSTCARDS, BELGIUM, WW1. (110 Approx.)
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchGAZETTE DES ARDENNES, 5 MAY 1918. 4th year, No 621, German newspaper, in French, for the occupied territories, printed in Charleroi, Belgium. (TRANSLATED IN PART by W.Barber), 5 May 1918
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...Original, single page propaganda broadsheet, collected by Bob Snape, when he was working as Confidential Clerk to General Sir John Monash, with Australia Corps HQ, in Belgium, late 1918. Yellowed with age, but despite some tears along the folds and a hole the size of a 20 cent piece, it is a good legible document with a front-line mapsnape collection -
Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchPropaganda 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
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...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 -
Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchPOEM, "In Memory of Herbert Smith KIA, October 1914" and POST CARD of Méteren village's "Needle-eyed chuch."
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchPICTURE 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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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchTRENCH 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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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchBOB: 'THE DAILY SKETCH', Tuesday 12 November 1918, Edition No. 3,019 - This Copy Free to the Soldier
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchIRREGULAR DIARY NOTES, Date unknown
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IRREGULAR DIARY NOTES on a scrap of foolscap paper re FROMELLES
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchPOSTCARD 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
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...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 -
Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchBOB & HAROLD: visiting the Pyramids, Egypt, February, 1916
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchCaptured 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
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...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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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchFIVE 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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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchAERIAL PHOTOGRAPH: 22.N.1559, Bapaume - Bancourt, Thilloy - Ligny Thilloy
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchAERIAL PHOTOGRAPH, (Oblique shot of battlefield from Butte de Warlencourt, wrecked tank featured) 16/10/1916
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchLe Barque, Butte de Warlencourt, 22.N.1561, 16 Oct 1916
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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchLigny 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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Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchDIARY & 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
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...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 -
Warrnambool RSL Sub BranchTHE COOK FAMILY: BOB & HAROLD'S MATERNAL RELATIVES AND THEIR HISTORY as told by cousins, Jeff Miers and Marion ('Bab') Hulme and Bob Snape himself
... Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets ...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
