17. Wartime Speeches, 1914-1919

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Box 7

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Series

Content Summary:

Notes for Novar's speeches: to Australian troops ; for recruiting drives; Anzac Days; French National Day; American National Day; America's entry into war in June 1917; at RMC Duntroon; presentations of colours and medals; public welcomes to soldiers; at military hospitals (Christmas 1918); Annual Congress of Returned Servicemen's League (1918); Armistice mesages; and peace celebrations in 1919. Comprises Items 5345-5652.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were received in 1961 from Mr A.B.L. Munro Ferguson and the Trustees of the late Viscount Novar. Thirty photographs copied from the Novar albums in the possession of Mr Munro Ferguson were added to the collection in 1985. Subsequent additions include five illuminated manuscripts purchased from a dealer in 1990 and transcripts of extracts from Novar's diaries donated by Professor John Poynter in 1997. Six volumes of diaries, on long-term loan from Mr Ronald Munro Ferguson (great nephew of Lord Novar), were added to the collection on 12 January 2004. The diaries were kept by Lord Novar while he was Governor General of Australia between 1915 and 1920.

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