World War I, 1916-1959

Component identifier:

Series 2

Content Summary:

The principal items in the series are five handwritten and typescript diaries kept by Captain Marr in Mesopotamia between May 1916 and February 1918. Other items include letters by Marr's children (August 1916) and letters about the War from H.R. Hopwood (1928) and Arthur Hayman (1959). There are also programs of a shipboard concert, 1918 and of the fourth reunion dinner of New Zealand Wireless Troop, Mesopotamia, 1959; invitations to opening of the Australian War Memorial, 1929, and to the 1955 reunion of the Pymble Branch of the Returned Services League; an undated article on religion in Persia by Lieutenant-Corporal J. Stuart; pamphlets, cuttings from newspapers and journals, and two books titled With horse and morse in Mesopotamia (Sydney, 1927) edited by Keast Burke and Australia chivalry (Melbourne, 1933) edited by J.L. Treloar.

Items 1-29

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was donated to the Library by Mr Colin C. Marr in 1973

Names:

Marr, Charles William Clanan, Sir, 1880-1960

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