Historical information
All overseas correspondence to Gladys Holmes. Vida Holmes, Frank and Jim from Byaduk servicemen, relatives and friends, during WW! service 1915-1919. Except Letters and postcards from Orford Critchlow to Gladys. Some of the seven servicemen died and are remembered on the Byaduk war memorial- Wilfred Rentsch, William Thomas Harper, Stanley O Miller, Albert V Harper and Walter Kinghorn. Gladys wad born in Byaduk 1897 daughter to Joseph (Baker) and Agnes Holmes with sisters Vida and Una and brother Frank. She married Alexander George Anderson of Stawell in 1924. Archie McGillivray married Minnie Ramsay, the Scottish sister of a friend Ashley Ramsay.
Significance
Primary documents sent to Byaduk residents from local friends serving overseas in WW!. Details of feelings, ship journeys, overseas war service and few photographs of period 1915/6- 1919. some of the writers/authors have photographs on the Byaduk Memorial hall Honour Board.
Physical description
001800.1 -001800.10
Cardboard postcards, some colour, one photograph and one embroidered
Inscriptions & markings
001800.1: To Gladys from Archie - undated
001800.2: To Gladys, With Kindest Regards, From Archie - undated
001800.3: Dear Gladys.. Sept 14.... Bye Archie; Harefield Hospital
001800.4: Dear Gladys...Kindest regards Archie; Sutton Veny June 16/1918
001800.5: Dear Gladys..Archie; Belgium, March 21/1919
001800.6: To Gladys ....From Archie; 16/3/1918
001800.7: Dear Gladys...Your old pal Archie; Belgium, 16/3/1918
001800.8: Dear Gladys....Love from Archie, France, Jan 27/1918
001800.9: To Gladys from Archie; Christmas 1918
001800.10: Dear Gladys....from Arch, France Nov 7 1917
001800.8:
001800.9:
Subjects
References
- 1/14 set of correspondence during WW1 sent from overseas to Byaduk families Letters, postcards, photographs and envelopes
