World War I, 1914-1918

Component identifier:

Series 16

Content Summary:

Papers concerning Herbert Brooks' involvement in official and patriotic affairs during World War I have been organized into three small subseries; the State Munitions' Committee, the State War Council, and the Australian Red Cross Society. However, single letters refer to his membership of the Central Coal Board, the Council of Defence and the Australian Patriotic Fund Committee during this period.

Brookes' State Munitions' Committee correspondence during 1915 and 1916 deals with the establishment and organization of Munitions' works in Victoria.

There are papers of the State War Council from 1915 until 1918, many concerned with the Finance Committee on which Brookes served, as well as soldiers' repatriation; the proposed War Funds Control Board, reports of the Council on the organization and control of patriotic funds, after the war, together with pamphlets and press cuttings.

Included in the last subseries is a small amount of material dealing with the Red Cross Society. (Brookes was a member of the Victorian Divisional Committee in 1915.) There are letters, notes, the reports of the Red Cross Hospitals' Committee and the Voluntary Aid Detachments for 1917.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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