Eliza and Oliver Mitchell (Maylands, Claremont, Melbourne, Blue Mountains, Burwood, Collingwood, Carlton, SS Medina) to (daughter) Alice and Sidney Tidswell, 28 July 1914-05 December 1915
- Component identifier:
- File 3-22
- Content Summary:
- Subjects include: Voyage to Australia; visit to (son) Ernest and Lena; Mount Lawley; the house at Maylands; 'Claremont is a very pretty suburb'; war news; visit to Fitzroy Park; memorial service for Lord Roberts in Melbourne Cathedral; parade through Melbourne by the Light Horse prior to embarkation; Katoomba Falls not at their best due to drought; Leura Falls; 'We are surprised by strikes and threatened strikes in such a crisis; trip by motor boat to Cronulla; Australia Day, 30 July, £408,000 raised for returned wounded soldiers; recruitment; Oliver's health; anxious voyage home, through Mediterranean. (60p.)
- Processing information:
- M2760
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- Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material. These letters are the property of Mrs Olive Wilkinson and Mrs Dorothy Laycock. Requests for permission to quote material and copy items should be addressed to:Mrs Olive Wilkinson Mansfield 14 Mansfield Road Burley in Wharfedale llkley LS29 7LQ West Yorkshire.
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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