Letters and Diaries

The La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection holds over 5.2 kilometers of unpublished material including about 300 World War I and 200 World War II collections. Manuscripts has a particularly interesting collection of diaries from men who fought at Gallipoli in 1915 and over 100 oral history interviews with veterans undertaken by author Patsy Adam-Smith.
War Diary
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Letter Home
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"Goolie Chit"
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Field Message Book
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Victorians at War - Oral History Project

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