Manuscript Name |
Papers of Peter Dennis |
Manuscript Number |
MSS 273 |
Last Updated |
August 2021 |
Extent |
2 boxes + 1 AV box |
Location |
Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract |
Research material, newspaper clippings, records and photographs, along with correspondence relating to the AIF Project |
Date Range of Content
1915-1994
Restrictions on Use
No copying is permitted without the permission of the copyright owners.
Content Listing
Box 1
Folder 1
Correspondence
Mainly concerned with the AIF Project, colloquia to attend, veterans’ and/or their families’ responses to what the project is doing and the sort of information required.
12 August 1991 to 8 January 1994
Folder 2
Research Material
- ‘Anzac Day: To Our Dead Mates 1940’ by Sapper H. Groth, published in Maryborough Chronicle, 25 April, 1941 (photocopy);
- John Machefer Graham’s Pocket Diary for 1919 (photocopy);
- Original Certified Extract of Marriage Register (8 April 1916) for Edward Mason and Doris Evelyn, at Kasr-el-Nil Garrison Church, Egypt;
- Archives Society of Tasmania, Church Registers Held in the Archives Office of Tasmania, updated October 1992 (photocopy);
- Ypres-Armentieres Map Sheet Nos. 14 and 14A: Ypres’, published in S.C. Hurst, The Silent Cities (London, 1929) (photocopy);
- Anne Gray, ‘Will Longstaff’s Menin Gate at midnight’, Australian War Memorial publication;
- Menin Gate lions return to display’, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, no. 18 (April, 1991), p. 67 (photocopy);
- The Gilgandra Weekly (November, 1987) [The Coo-ee March Renactment Supplement]. Published by Gilgandra Newspapers Pty Ltd.
Folder 3
Research Material – Cemetery Records
- List of Australian Monumental Inscriptions. Cemetery Records, Parish Registers (burials) & Records Relating to Wills in The Library of the Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra Inc. (July, 1993);
- Sheafs of undated handwritten and typed data for soldiers’ burial/cemetery details for various Australian states and towns – includes 2 cemetery plans;
- Microfiche of Western Australian Genealogical Society, Western Australian Cemeteries Index Perth War Cemetery [Bayswater, WA, 1986-89].
Folder 4
Research Material – Cemetery Records
Toowong Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions, vol. 2. Portions 7A-10. Queensland Family History Society (Indooroopilly, Qld, 1988?), Joan Ainsworth (ed.)
Box 2
Folder 5
Research Material – Cemetery Records
Toowong Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions, vol. 3. Portions 11-18. Queensland Family History Society (Indooroopilly, Qld, 1988?), Joan Ainsworth (ed.)
Folder 6
Research Material – Cemetery Records
Toowong Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions, vol. 4. Portions 19-30. Columbarium Demolished Graves. Queensland Family History Society (Indooroopilly, Qld, 1988?), Joan Ainsworth (ed.)
Folder 7
Research Material – Cemetery Records
Toowong Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions, vol. 5. Portions 1-30. Columbarium Demolished Graves. Queensland Family History Society (Indooroopilly, Qld, 1988?), Joan Ainsworth (ed.)
Folder 8
Research Material – Cemetery Records
Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, caption on first page titled ‘Gatton 94 pages’.
Folder 9
Research Material – Cemetery Records
- Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, for Laidley and 11 other places, 45 pages;
- Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, for Boonah and Coominya, 13 pages;
- Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, for Lowood, 6 pages;
- Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, for Kalbar, 3 pages;
- Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, for Railway, 26 pages.
Folder 10
Research Material – Cemetery Records
- Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, for Grandchester, 2 pages;
- Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, for Grantham and Mama Creek, 3 pages;
- Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, for Gatton, 10 pages;
- Handwritten records for townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, for Blackbutt, 2 pages;
- 6 bundles of handwritten records for unidentified townships’ soldiers’ regiment numbers, addresses, joining RSL, various pagination;
- Handwritten records for Toowong cemetery details (soldiers’ burials), 16 pages.
Folder 11
Newspaper Clippings
- Unidentified, undated newspaper with two articles: ‘Snapshots of soldiers in front line’, and ‘Fighting sons of the Empire’, with photocopy;
- Kirsty McGoldrick, ‘Thanks at last for home front service’, unidentified, undated newspaper (with photocopy) and attachments concerning Australian Women’s Land Army (1944-45).
Cool Room
Box 3
Folder 12
Photographs
- Set of colour photographs originally donated to Peter Dennis by Mrs. Heather Ashford of Scone. The original enveloped in which they were posted was captioned: ‘Photos of (3) War Memorials (W.W. 1) in Scone, N.S.W. Also (1) Honour Roll at Scone Hospital (Total – 9 photos)’. All photographs in this set are numbered on the back with descriptions;
- Set of 8 colour photographs of the Hay Memorial for First World War and Second World War, with no identifying provenance;
- Original portrait photograph of Australian soldier, with caption on back: ‘To Betsy with love from Darrell, 1915;
- Original portrait photograph of unidentified Australian soldier;
- Original portrait photograph of unidentified Australian soldier, with caption on back: ‘Taken at [Bouveigen?] River Meuse Belgium Xmas 1918’;
- Copy of portrait photograph of unidentified Australian soldier, Thelma-Duryea studios, 37A Rundle Street, Adelaide;
- Copy of portrait photograph of Australian soldier, with caption on back: ‘Edward Henry Newson, gift of Mr. R. Newson, 93 Rawson St, Kurri, NSW 2327 August [1993]’.