Guide to the Papers of the Vasey Family

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MS 3782

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: April 1987

Collection Summary

Creator
Vasey Family
Title
Papers of the Vasey Family
Date Range
1915-1966
Collection Number
MS 3782
Extent
2.85 metres (1 ms box + 15 archive boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2265114) for the access conditions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of the Vasey Family, National Library of Australia, MS 3782, [box number and series and/or folder number]'.

Item Descriptions

One blue document wallet containing condolence cards on the death of Mrs Jessie M. Vasey C.B.E, September 1966 (File) - Box 1

Letters of condolence on the death of Major-General G.A. Vasey C.B.E, March 1945 (File 1-4) - Box 1

Letters of condolence on the death of Mrs Jessie M. Vasey C.B.E, September 1966 (File 5) - Box 1

Personal letters, 1944-1963 (File 6) - Box 1

Personal letters, 1945-1961 (File) - Box 1

Correspondence, 1945-1961 (File 7) - Box 1

Correspondence, 1945-1966 (File 8) - Box 1

Correspondence, 1936-1966 (File 9) - Box 1

Correspondence, 1937-1938 (File 10) - Box 2

Correspondence, 1939-1940 (File 11) - Box 2

Correspondence, 1941 (File 12-13) - Box 2

Correspondence, 1942 (File 14-16) - Box 2

D/O letters from Col.G.A.Vasey to Col.S.F.Rowell and vice versa January-February, 1940 (File 17) - Box 2

Correspondence, 1942-1943 (File 18) - Box 3

Correspondence, 1943-1945 (File 19) - Box 3

Correspondence, 1943-1944 (File 20) - Box 3

Congratulatory correspondence on receiving the award of Companion of the Order of the Bath (C.B.) to Col. GA. Vasey, 1943 (File 21) - Box 3

Correspondence, January - March 1944 (File 22) - Box 3

Miscellaneous. Including Leave of Absence ticket, invoices, only a few letters, April-May 1944 (File 23) - Box 3

Invoices and correspondence, June-July 1944 (File 24) - Box 3

Correspondence, August-December 1944 (File 25) - Box 3

Correspondence, January-March 1945 to early 1946 (File 26) - Box 3

Correspondence, 1943-1961 (File 27) - Box 4

(includes War Widows' Guild)

Correspondence, 1945-1963 (File 28) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1936-1961 (File 29) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1955-1966 (File 30) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1952-1965 (File 31) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1951-1959 (File 32) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1934-1960 (File 33) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1945-1960 (File 34) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1945-1959 (File 35) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1936-1963 (File 36) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1949-1961 (File 37) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1945-1965 (File 38) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1945-1963 (File 39) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1945-1965 (File 40) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1950 (File 41) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1927-1961 (File 42) - Box 5

(including condolences 1945)

Correspondence; large brown envelope addressed to Mrs G. Vasey containing Dept. of Army file on their research into Mrs Vasey's late son's wartime injuries (1961), 1944-1965 (File 43) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1936-1966 (File 44) - Box 5

(including photographs)

Amphibian courses, (c.1940) (File 45) - Box 6

War reports on Crete, 1941 (File 46) - Box 6

A.I.F. reports on divisional staffing, 1940; A.I.F. cables 1940; Drafts of Accommodation, Order of Battle; Arrival of N.Z. forces, 1940 (File 47) - Box 6

Miscellaneous material on the training and health of troops during the war (File 48) - Box 6

Lectures, c.1941 (File 49) - Box 6

Notes ps.44. "Reviews of Composition and Organisation of Jungle Formations", 1944 (File 50) - Box 6

Notes ps 43/4. Miscellaneous material concerning the A.I.F, 1944 (File 51) - Box 6

Notes RAMU Valely P.N.G, 1944 (File 52) - Box 6

Report of op. Outlook, 5 September 1943-16 September 1943 (File 53) - Box 6

War Diaries and passports + Ephemera (File 54) - Box 7

Miscellaneous material about war including: Manifest Book; Graduates of R.M.C. Duntroon 1944; Poems (c.1940's) (File 55) - Box 7

Notes for lecture on Australian Railways (c.1920's) (File 56) - Box 7

Engineers' Log Books, 1945 (File 57) - Box 7

War publications (File) - Box 7

Newspaper cuttings, 1945 (File 58-60) - Box 8

Newspaper cuttings, 1944-1945 (File 61) - Box 8

Newspaper cuttings, 1944-1946 & 1965 (File 62) - Box 8

Newspaper cuttings, 1945, 1948-1949, 1951 and 1965 (File 63) - Box 8

Newspaper cuttings, 1899, 1950-51, 1958 & 1961 (File 64) - Box 8

Newspaper cuttings, 1940, 1945, 1957 & 1966 (File 65) - Box 8

Newspaper cuttings, 1945 (File 66) - Box 8

War publications (File) - Box 8

Personal material (Mrs Vasey) (including menus), 1942-1964 (File 67) - Box 9

Personal letters to Mrs Vasey, (1944) (File 68) - Box 9

Menus, lists of passengers, arrival and departure times of passenger ships etc (File 69) - Box 9

Invitations 1947-1965 and speech (n.d.) (File 70) - Box 9

Personal letter to General Vasey, 1944 (File 71) - Box 9

Material on War Widows Guild, itineraries and notes, 1936-1966 (File 72) - Box 9

Personal material re: Mrs Vasey (War Widows' Guild Antique Shop) 1955, also brochure on Aborigines (File 73) - Box 9

War publications (File) - Box 9

Maps (File) - Box 10

Summaries of Information India (n.d.) (File 74) - Box 10

Personal file of Major G.A. Vasey DSO (Australian Staff Corps), 1934-1935 (File 74) - Box 10

Miscellaneous material re Army, c.1936; Railway course Lahore, 1929; Timetable for tactical exercise (no date) (File 75) - Box 10

Narratives of Eastern Command Manoeuvres, Gurgaon Area, 1935 (File 76) - Box 10

Syllabus and timetables for A.M.F. Field Practices, 1933 (File 77) - Box 10

C.B. (Military) and C.B.E.; Mrs J.M. Vasey private papers (c.1943-1949); also colour patches and birth certificate of G.A. Vasey, 1941 and 1943 (File 78) - Box 11

Several awards (File) - Box 11

Photographs (File) - Box 11

Brigade Orders 1915-1919 including maps (File 79) - Box 12

Major G.A. Vasey - Personal; Brigade Orders; S.S. Publications; S.O. Offensive; Circulars; Various items on Defence (c.1917-1918) (File 80) - Box 12

Various material on Defence (c.1917) A.I.F. - some maps (File 81) - Box 12

G.A. Vasey Personal, re: Documents Aust. Infantry Brigade. Documents; S.O. Offensive 2nd phase; Composition of Headquarters; British Armies in France. February 1919 (File 82) - Box 12

Australian Infantry Brigade Orders, 1917-1918 (File 83) - Box 12

Aust. Imperial Forces Statements 1943; Tactical Exercises 1917; Ypres Battle G.S.Circulars 1917 (File 84) - Box 13

Aust. Infantry Brigade Orders, 1918 (File 85) - Box 13

Documents pertaining to the 3rd Aust'n Division; Q Summary from 10.8.18 (File 86) - Box 13

Notes on the interpretation of aeroplane photograph;s Reports on the 11th Australian; Infantry Brigade; Notes on lectures and conferences, 1918 (File 87) - Box 13

Newspaper cuttings, notes and statements on the problems of Australian Defence, 1933 (File 88) - Box 13

Army photographs of G.A. Vasey (File 89) - Box 14

Army photographs of G.A. Vasey - (some taken in New Guinea) (File 90) - Box 14

Army photographs of G.A. Vasey including a few personal photographs (File 91) - Box 14

On red photograph album of Europe (File) - Box 14

One brown album of personal photographs (File) - Box 14

One plastic bag of official photographs (some of R.G. Menzies) (File) - Box 14

One plastic bag of newspaper cuttings, c.1947 (File) - Box 15

Australian Military Forces Report on the Royal Military College of Australia November, 1944 (File) - Box 15

(2 copies)

"New Guinea Victory - a pictorial record of Military History", 1943 (File) - Box 15

(3 copies)

Newspaper clippings, correspondence, marriage certificate and the War Widows' Guild, 1966 (File 92) - Box 15

Green album of photographs of Europe (File) - Box 15

Brown album of Afghanistan photographs (File) - Box 16

Small black photograph album of personal photographs, 1928 (File)

Large green photo album of Kashmir (File) - folio 1

Large yellow envelope with military photographs enclosed (File) - folio 1

Blue photograph album of Vasey Barracks, Japan (File) - folio 1


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