Guide to the Ferguson collection of papers relating to World War I

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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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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.

Holdsworthy/Liverpool camp: programs and publications, 1915-1918 (File 1)
Liverpool camp: programs and publications, 1916-1918 and 1939 (File 2)
Liverpool, Trial Bay and Berrima camps: photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings, 1915-1919, 1936 (File 3)
A balancing feat [performed] by [three unidentified male] POWs, [New South Wales, 1914-1918] [picture].
Model H.M.S. [i.e. S.M.S.] Emden, German cruiser, [New South Wales, 1914-1918] [picture].
An art studio at GCC [German Concentration Camp, New South Wales, 1914-1919] [picture].
Howitzer model made in the GCC, [New South Wales, 1914-1918] [picture].
POW work in exhibition GCC [German Concentration Camp, New South Wales, 1914-1918] [picture].
Exhibition of work done by POW's GCC [i.e. German Concentration Camp], Holdsworth [i.e. Holdsworthy, New South Wales, 1914-1919] [picture].
[Unidentified adults at] New Year display, German Concentration Camp, 1918 [New South Wales] [picture].
Liedertafel GCC [adult male choir, German Concentration Camp, New South Wales, 1914-1919] [picture].
Photographs of camp internees, c1918, camp buildings and deserted Trial Bay prison, 1936 and items made by internees; letters from internees (including Paul Helterhoff); camp rules; and newspaper cuttings (including re demolition of the Trial Bay monument, 1919) (File 3)

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

New Zealand: photos of Featherstone and other military camps, n.d. (File 4)

Printed album and 10 postcard-size prints

ANZAC Day programs and orders of service, 1921, 1929, 1933, 1936-1938, 1941 (File 5)
Other war-related official documents, 1917 and undated (File 6)

Troopship orders HMAS Shropshire, 23rd Battalion standing orders and 10th Training battalion march order

Series 3. Postcards, greeting cards, photographs and other printed material, 1915-1919

Patriotic and souvenir postcards, photographs and greeting cards, 1915-1918 (File 1-3)

Includes series of printed patriotic postcards and photographs of Australian forces overseas, field service cards, official cards from staff, and Australian Comforts' Fund, anti-conscription postcards 1916-1917

Miscellaneous war-related printed material, 1915-1919 (File 4)

Including War Chest Fund, conscription referendum leaflets, war savings, propaganda leaflets, proclamation of martial law in Jerusalem and newspaper articles re battles and war theatres

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.

Separate file of envelopes received from war theatres, 1915-1916 (File ?)
Letters to J.A. Ferguson and lists regarding copies of war-time printed and published material, 1915, 1919-1920 (File 3)

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.

The Homeward Bounders, magazine of the H.M.A.T. Port Sydney, typed copies of v. 1, nos. 1-5, c.1919 (File 1)
The Armadale News, 1916 (File 2)
The Dinkum News, 1916 (File 2)
En Voyage, 1919 (File 2)
The Austral-Aeneas News, 1919 (File 2)
The 'Hororata' Special, 1920 (File 2)
The Sardine, 1919 (File 2)
The Ghost and The Ghostess, 1919 (File 2)
Ceramicalities, c.1919 (File 2)
The Boomerang, 1919-1920. (File 2)
The Ocean Echo, 1919 (File 3)

With letter to J.A. Ferguson from the editor, Eric Farrey, 1921

The Maltameter, 1918 (File 4)
The Oysterley [sic] Silence: the official record of the voyage of H.M.T. "Osterley" from Australia to England., 1918 (File 4)
Grit: a journal of moral reform and no-license, Vol. XI, no. 7, 1917 (File 4)
Grit: war-time prohibition means national efficiency, Vol. XII, no. 5a, 1918 (File 4)
Shipboard diaries (copies), 1914-1916 and 1918 (File 5)

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

Series 7. Patriotic songs, 1914-1917

Music score and words of Prayer in time of war, 1914, Smile and carry on, c1914 and Fill the billy for the boys, c1917.

Smile and carry on [music]

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