Bendigo Military Museum
Mixed media - HARD DRIVE, DVD
... Colin (Snowy) Odlum VX45898 2/23rd Bn 2nd AIF. Begins when he sailed from Melbourne on Nov 16th 1940 to July 10th 1942, he was KIA at El Alamein on 12.7.1942.
(These are the only two left in digital form, others that were done...Colin (Snowy) Odlum VX45898 2/23rd Bn 2nd AIF. Begins when he sailed from Melbourne on Nov 16th 1940 to July 10th 1942, he was KIA at El Alamein on 12.7.1942.
(These are the only two left in digital form, others that were done ...
.1) Hard Drive, the following items are stored on this device.
1. BRSL/SMIMM/BMM Museum History photographs, 885 images as a slide show with text added 1998 - 2018.
2. BRSL/SMIMM/BMM Museum History photographs, 241 images as a slide show with text added 2019 - current (ongoing).
3. Video, 7.30 report 23 April 2009 re the discovery of the Somme photographs, the Grinton collection.
4. 38th Bn AIF brief history 9 pages follows the movements of the Battalion by page No & date from "Eric Fairey's History of the 38th Bn", from inception on 1.3 1916 to when the 1st Draft leaves for home on 17.2.1919. (Hard copy, Cat No 9717)
5. The Anzac day Rum & Coffee story Bendigo RSL Dawn Service from 1996 to 2024. Follows the changes that began with the Museum expanding, 4 pages with photos, 33 other images as well taken over time.
6. BRSL/SMIMM/BMM Brief History in two folder sections 1993 to current (Ongoing)
a. Text with images attached.
b. Photographs, scans, drawings, sketch's, newsletters used in the publication.
(Hard copy, Cat No 8274.2)
7. Photographs.
(a) Photographs B & W, 403 as a slide show with text added. Covers 9 collections re WW2.
(b) Photographs B & W, 473 as a slide show with text added. Covers 3 collections re WW2 & 1 by Korea.
(c) Photographs B & W, 887 as a slide show with text added, covers 1 collection "Grinton".
(d) Photographs B & W, 196 as a slide show with text added, covers 8 collections re WW1.
(e) Photographs B & W, 443 as a slide show with text added, covers 8 collections re WW2.
(g) Photographs colour, 648 as a slide show with text added, covers 1 collection re Vietnam.
(h) Photographs colour, 831 as a slide show with text added, covers 2 collections combing (g & h) re Vietnam.
8.Museum Muster stories. Contains 18 stories relating to the Museum collection and the RSL history in the building. Many of these stories were published in the Museum Muster Newsletters. Others were ready to use but in 2020 Covid struck and the Newsletter came to an end and there were no more Newsletters after that.
9. Diary. Transcribed from the original. Arthur George Holley No PM13556 RAN. Joined the RAN age 15 in 1922 and goes through to 1945.
10. Diary. Transcribed from the original. Colin (Snowy) Odlum VX45898 2/23rd Bn 2nd AIF. Begins when he sailed from Melbourne on Nov 16th 1940 to July 10th 1942, he was KIA at El Alamein on 12.7.1942.
(These are the only two left in digital form, others that were done on a Museum Computer or transferred to were lost on the Museum computers)
11. Museum Musters. There were a total of 84 "Musters" produced from 2003 to beginning 2020 just before Covid. Vol's No 39, 45 - 76 are the only remaining in digital format. The rest were lost on Computer. (Vol's 1 - 84 are in Hard Copy)
12. Born Bendigo, enlisted Bendigo WW1. A listing of approx 6,000 names. This information was supplied by Denis Connor, Paul Dalgleish and Staff of the National Archives Canberra to the Museum. (A printed copy is in the Museum Library)
13. Diary. Jack Grinton No 1043 C Coy 38th BN WW1. Transcribed from his note book. Begins on 1.3.1916 on enlistment to 16.11.1916 prior to movement to France. Also photographs, research notes, documents, list of items donated to the Museum, time lines. (Diary, a hard copy is in the Museum Library)
(The above items were compiled by Peter Ball in his capacity as either Curator, Chairman Museum Sub Committee, Sub Committee member, Cataloguing Co Ordinator from 1998 to current. All were done on home computer, items listed as missing were at some point transferred to a Museum Computer and subsequently lost at a later date during Covid)
14. Video. Channel 9. The launch of the Soldiers Memorial Institute Digital Honour roll in 2017. The filming took place in the Vietnam Veterans shed at the Bendigo District RSL Havilah Road. The work relates to the 2,972 names on the Honour Roll of the building and the 499 identified who did not come back. The research and putting together was done by Bendigo RSL Historian Murray Poustie, interviews on the video are with Murray and Museum Volunteer Peter. The Boer War, WW2, Korea and Vietnam was added in 2019.
.2) DVD in paper cover. 7.30 Report 23.4.2009, The discovery of the Some photographs. (Grinton collection)
Collection re Peter Ball, refer Cat No 4704 for service details & RSL service.
.1) My Passport Hard drive 2 TB, Blue colour one side, black the other, USB cord attached, contains 14 items re, a video, photos, stories, diaries, slide shows.
.2) DVD in its paper cover with details on the DVD..2) "Discovery of the Somme photographs - The 7.30 Report - 23 April 2009".brsl, smirsl, 7.30, mixed media, somme, museum
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