Guide to the Ferguson collection of papers relating to World War I
MS 3637
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- John Alexander Ferguson
- Title
- Ferguson collection of papers relating to World War I
- Date Range
- 1914 - 1941
- Collection Number
- MS 3637
- Extent
- 0.39 metres (2 archive boxes + 1 packet)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to World War I collected by J. A. Ferguson. The collection includes programs, souvenir menus, patriotic and souvenir postcards, photographs,broadsides, correspondence, music scores and official proclamations, mostly from Australian military forces serving in Europe, the Middle East, New Guinea and at sea. There are programs, menus and photographs from internment camps, known as German Concentration Camps, in Australia located at Holdsworthy, Trial Bay and Berrima, shipboard and other war theatre diaries, official printed material,letters from servicemen at the front (including to the Rev. John Ferguson and Mrs Ferguson) and later letters to J.A. Ferguson in relation to his collecting, a number of shipboard and field service magazines, and three scores of patriotic war-time songs.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1756015).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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], Ferguson collection of papers relating to World War 1, National Library of Australia, MS 3637, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were acquired by the Library as part of the collections of Sir John Ferguson.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 3637. Original Consignment
Series 1. German internment camps in Australia, 1915-1918, 1939
Programs of musical, theatrical, sporting and similar events, literary publications (mainly processed) and photographs, related press cuttings and correspondence from the internment camps at Holdsworthy (later spelt Holsworthy) and at Trial Bay and Berrima. The series includes one concert programme from the Liverpool internment camp in World War II, dated December 1939.
Series 2. Australian and New Zealand military forces, programs, menus and official printed material, 1915-1923, 1929-1941
Programs, souvenir menus, greetings cards; official proclamations, broadsides, marching orders and other printed and processed material relating to Australian war operations in Europe and the Pacific.
Australian Infantry Forces, France and Belgium, 1917-1919 (File 1)
Including leaflets, greeting cards, menus and programs of card nights, sporting functions and concerts of various divisions and brigades and companies, some in the field in France and Belgium (many with imprint 'Printed in the Field by 23rd Bn Press') and on board submarine S.S. Rio Negro
British Military Occupation/British Administration and Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Rabaul, 1914-1920, 1935 (File 2)
Including official proclamations, orders, instructions and ordinances of the British Military Occupation/British Administration 1914-1918; menus and programs of Australian Expeditionary Force services, sporting and other entertainments; also program of visit of HMAS Melbourne to Rabaul, 1920 and letters and photos re Soldiers' Memorial at Rabaul, 1935
Samoa, 1916-1920 (File 3)
Copies of proclamations issued during occupation of Samoa and program of service of thanksgiving for peace
Series 3. Postcards, greeting cards, photographs and other printed material, 1915-1919
Series 4. Correspondence, 1915-1920
Letters from the front, 1915-1918 (File 1-2)
Letters and a diary extract from soldiers on active service. Includes letters to Rev. John and Mrs Ferguson and J.A. Ferguson from Eustace and George Ferguson and others, letters of 'Alan' to Bryce Carter, letters to J. Josephson and others, and a file of correspondence and leaflets relating to the War received or collected by Rev. Maynard Riley, frontline chaplain, 1915-1922, with covering letter to J.A. Ferguson, 1923.
Series 5. Shipboard and other war theatre diaries and publications, 1914-1921
Printed, processed/hand-printed and typescript magazines prepared by and for servicemen at sea and in the field, and typescript copies of two diaries.
Series 6. Post war service publications, 1919-1920
The Rising Sun, v.1 n0.11, Jan. 1919; The Diggers Gazette, v.1 no.1, November 1919; First New Zealand Mounted Rifles Association Bulletin, no. 42, Jan. 1920; Carry on no.1, July 1925; AIF Education Service Journal v.1 no.2, Feb. 1919; Australia in the Great war: the story told in pictures