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MS Acc10.087

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Collection Summary

Creator
Stuart Braga
Title
Papers of Stuart Braga
Date Range
1998-2004
Collection Number
MS Acc10.087
Extent
1.65 metres (11 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Comprises papers relating to the research, writing and publication of ANZAC doctor: the life of Sir Neville Howse, Australia's first VC. Includes correspondence, photographs, copies of articles and other research material.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4700539).

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Stuart Braga, National Library of Australia, MS Acc10.087, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Biographical / Historical

Teacher and writer. Stuart Braga's publications include ANZAC doctor: the life of Sir Neville Howse, Australia's first VC (2000), A century preaching Christ: Katoomba Christian Convention, 1903-2003 (2003), Kokoda commander: a life of Major-General "Tubby" Allen (2004), and John Paton, VC: hero of Lucknow (2007).

Item Descriptions

Class MS Acc09.058. Consignment Received 2009

MS Acc09.058 comprises papers relating to the research, writing and publication of ANZAC doctor: the life of Sir Neville Howse, Australia's first VC. Includes correspondence, photographs, copies of articles and other research material (2 boxes).

Class MS Acc10.087. Consignment Received 2010

The Acc10.087 instalment comprises papers relating to Braga's book Kokoda commander, including research notes on A.S. Allen, the New Guinea campaign, the Northern Territory Force; copies of primary source material held by the Australian War Memorial, State Library of Victoria, and held in private ownership; annotated extracts from published books and journals; working files including correspondence; publication arrangements; drafts and proofs of the book. Also included are papers relating to Braga's research on Sir Neville Howse VC, including World War I dossier, copies of Howse papers held at the Australian War Memorial, press cuttings, photographs, articles, and administrative material (9 boxes).

Series 1. 'Kokoda Commander'

Subseries 1.1. A. S. Allen – personal
Allen – time lines (File 1) - Box 1-2
Service record (File 2) - Box 1-2
Allen, 1894-1914 (File 3) - Box 1-2
Allen, 1915-1919 (File 4) - Box 1-2
Allen, 1920-1939 (File 5) - Box 1-2
Allen, 1939-1945 (File 6) - Box 1-2
New Guinea Campaign – Press cuttings, September 1942-November 1942 (File 7) - Box 1-2
New Guinea Campaign – Press cuttings, 1943-1945 (File 8) - Box 1-2
Northern Territory Force, 1943 (File 9) - Box 1-2
Family letters, 1946-1949, 1958 (File 10) - Box 1-2
Allen – obituaries (File 11) - Box 1-2
Allen – awards (File 12) - Box 1-2
New Guinea Campaign – Blamey Papers, 'Argus', December 1953 (File 13) - Box 1-2
New Guinea Campaign – P.A. Cullen (File 14) - Box 1-2
Subseries 1.2. PRIMARY SOURCES, World War I
13th Battalion War Diary – extracts (File 1) - Box 1-2
45th Battalion War Diary – extracts, with some annotations (File 2) - Box 1-2
48th Battalion War Diary – extracts (File 3) - Box 1-2
Subseries 1.3. PRIMARY Sources, World War II
16th Infantry Brigade War Diary, January – April 1940, January – February 1941. AWM, 8/2/16 (File 1) - Box 1-3
Report on Jungle warfare. Australian War Memorial 54 553/3/2 – Allen and Berryman (File 2) - Box 1-3
Allen Papers , Australian War Memorial 3DRL 2381 and 3DRL 4142 – Owen Stanley Campaign – annotated copies of various official papers, especially the ADC's diary on 7th Division operations (File 3) - Box 1-3
Allen Papers, Australian War Memorial 3RDL 2381 (File 4) - Box 1-3

Copies made in 1993 for Richard James Allen, son of General Allen, who had contemplated writing a biography. Copies handed to Stuart Braga in August 2000 when the project commenced, resulting in publication of 'Kokoda Commander' in October 2004. It is a different selection of the Allen Papers in the Australian War Memorial, leaning more heavily on the details of the Kokoda Campaign, specially the 'Sitreps' (situation reports), giving details of each day's activities. There is some overlap with the material on No. 4, but there is important additional material, especially reports by Chester Wilmot. A MS listing made by Stuart Braga introduces this material. Many documents are annotated for use in writing the book.

Ivan Chapman Papers, 3DRL 6433 notes (File 5) - Box 1-3
Bert Kienzle's letter. Allen Papers 3 DRL 4142 (File 6) - Box 1-3
Dudley McCarthy, 'retreading the Kokoda Trail', 1953. Allen Papers 3DRL 4142. (File 7) - Box 1-3
War Cabinet, NAA A5954/69 – 808/2, Hansard, Reps, 9 September 1942 (File 8) - Box 1-3
Blamey Papers. Divisional appointments, 1943 AWM 419/10/2. (File 9) - Box 1-3
Fenton Diary, 24 -29 September 1942. 3 pp. Sole surviving fragment of an important diary, kept by Lt Col. A.G. Fenton. Throws new light on the dismissal of General Rowell by General Blamey on 28 September; specifies in exact terms why Rowell held such contempt for Blamey. The rest of the diary was burnt by Fenton's widow. Held (2010) by Mr Tim Fenton, Beecroft, New South Wales. (File 10) - Box 1-3
Hudson et al, eds, Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, Vol. VI. Various documents, notably exchanges between Curtin and MacArthur. (File 11) - Box 1-3
Herring Papers. Notes on the papers of Sir Edmund Herring, State Library of Victoria. These had been closed until 2000, and had not previously been used. PRINT OUT NEEDED. (File 12) - Box 1-3
J.B. Allen Papers. List of papers held by General Allen's son, John Allen (2004). 8 pp. Mainly personal papers, but containing several important files of letters. (File 13) - Box 1-3
Subseries 1.4. NOTES - Box 2-3

Notes on system cards, 20 cm by 12.5 cm, from a variety of sources. The most important of these are from the Northcott Papers, SLNSW, closed until 2000. Northcott's main concern on being appointed as Lieutenant General was to secure a large pay increase. This is not referred to in the book 'Kokoda Commander'.

Subseries 1.5. BOOKS. Brief extracts from books, with annotations
Austin, V. To Kokoda and beyond (File 1) - Box 2-3
Barter, M. Far above battle (File 2) - Box 2-3
Chapman, I. History of the Sydney University Regiment. This very substantial history was not in 2004 to be found in any public collection. I located a copy in the Sydney University Archives, not the library, which is in the same building! Useful notes on the militia during the 1930s. (File 3) - Box 2-3
Coates, J. Bravery above blunder (File 4) - Box 2-3
Coulthard-Clark, C., Australia's Battles (File 5) - Box 2-3
Graham, A.W. without fear or favour : a History of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, 1928-1978 (File 6) - Box 2-3
Gullett, J., Not as duty only (File 7) - Box 2-3
Harper, G., 'Penetrating the fog of war: the use of oral history in military history research', in Oral History Association of Victoria Journal, No. 15, 1993 (File 8) - Box 2-3
Hayashi, S., Kogun : the Japanese Army in the Pacific War (File 9) - Box 2-3
Johnston, G., New Guinea Diary (File 10) - Box 2-3
Johnston, G., War Diary, 1942 (File 11) - Box 2-3
Keogh, E.G., South-West Pacific, 1941-1945 (File 12) - Box 2-3
Manchester, American Caesar :Douglas MacArthur, 188-1964 (File 13) - Box 2-3
McAllister, J., Largely a gamble : Australians in Syria, June –July 1941 (File 14) - Box 2-3
McDonald, N., 200 shots: Damien Parer, George Silk and the Australians at War in New Guinea (File 15) - Box 2-3
McDonald, N., War cameraman : the story of Damien Parer (File 16) - Box 2-3
Milner, S., Victory in Papua (File 17) - Box 2-3
Norris, F.K., 'the New Guinea Campaign., in 'Medical Journal of Australia', 15 December 1945. A particularly eloquent description of conditions. (File 18) - Box 2-3
Norris, F.K., 'The Syrian Campaign', in 'Medical Journal of Australia', 15 January 1944 (File 19) - Box 2-3
Palazzo, A., the Australian Army : a history of its organisation, 1901-2001 (File 20) - Box 2-3
Palazzo, A., Defenders of Australia : the Third Australian Division (File 21) - Box 2-3
Ramage, I.A., Ray Ramage, "Citizen Soldier" (File 22) - Box 2-3
Slessor, K., The war diaries of Kenneth Slessor (File 23) - Box 2-3
Spragg, G., When good men do nothing (File 24) - Box 2-3
Swain, B., Chronology of Australian Armed Forces at war (File 25) - Box 2-3
Wavell, Generals and generalship (File 26) - Box 2-3
While, O., Green armour (File 27) - Box 2-3
Wicks, S., Purple over green : the history of the 2/2 Australian Infantry Battalion (File 28) - Box 2-3
Wilcox, C., for hearths and homes: citizen soldiering in Australia, 1854-1945 (File 29) - Box 2-3
Williamson, K., The Last Bastion (File 30) - Box 2-3
Unit histories: 2/1st Battalion; 2/2nd Battalion; 2/14th Battalion; 2/16th Battalion; 2/25th Battalion; 2/27th Battalion; 2/33rd Battalion; 39th Battalion (article by Lt Colonel Ralph Honner, CO). (File 31) - Box 2-3
Subseries 1.6. VARIED SOURCES, World War II

Some copies of private papers from the Australian War Memorial were included here for convenience of use. Photocopies of relevant portions of books by or about the following. Most relate to Second AIF generals and other senior officers. Some extracts have comments and annotations. There are two university theses included here for convenience of reference. All these were separated in the bibliography of 'Kokoda Commander'.

File marked 'Generals': Blamey. Carlyon, I remember Blamey; Dougherty. Fearnside & Clift, Dougherty – a great man among men; Herring. Sayers, Ned Herring; Mackay. Australian War Memorial 3DRL 6850; Bazley & Long, 'Mackay' in Australian Army Journal, July 1967); Norris. No memory for pain, and Sweeting in 'Australian Army Journal', 1971; Northcott. Beavis, 'Northcott: a wartime Chief of Staff, in Australian Amy Journal, April 1967 (File 1) - Box 4

Robertson. Grey, Australian Brass; Rowell, Full Circle; Savage. Russell, There goes a man

Herring Papers, SLV MS 11355 (File 2) - Box 4
D. Horner, MA thesis, UNSW, 1975, 'Generals in battle'; G.M. Brown, BA thesis, Univ Newcastle, 1971, 'Kokoda Trail – myth and reality' (File 3) - Box 4
D.M. Horner. Extracts from books and articles: Defence Supremo; High Command; Inside the War Cabinet; Staff Corp Versus Militia: the Australian Experience in World War II (File 4) - Box 4
C. Neumann, 'Australia's Citizen Soldiers, 1919-1939: a study of organization, command, recruiting, training and equipment', MA thesis, UNSW, 1978 (File 5) - Box 4
Rowell Papers Australian War Memorial 3DRL 6763; Transcript of interview between David Horner and Sir Sydney Rowell, 26 June 1974, lent by David Horner. (File 6) - Box 4
Vasey. D.M. Horner, General Vasey's War; notes on Vasey Papers National Library of Australia MS 3782. (File 7) - Box 4
File of short notes from Bean, C.E.W. – Diary 3DRL 606 re Pozieres; Hodgson, Dr John – medical references to Allen; Keyes , D. – notes on film Five Bloody weeks; Darling, Gordon – diary, 1942; Long, Gavin – notebook AWM 67 1/9; Long, Gavin – Long Papers, AWWM 67 3/6; Allen Papers 3DRL 4142 – Allen's defence of Rowell, 1951; Wilmot, C. – press cutting, Age; Chief of Army's history conference, July 2003 (File 8) - Box 4
Sydney Morning Herald indexes, 1936-1939 and some off-prints (File 9) - Box 4
Articles from Defence Force Journal (File 10) - Box 4
Articles from Stand To (File 11) - Box 4
Articles from Australian Dictionary of Biography: Allen, Blamey, Curtin, Lavarack, Morris, Northcott. Herring from Defence Force Journal (Australian Dictionary of Biography not yet available) (File 12) - Box 4
McDonald, N., 'Reporting the Papuan Campaign', in "Quadrant', November 2002 (File 13) - Box 4
North Africa, Greece, 1941. Folder of miscellany. War diaries, Allen's correspondence with Gavin Long, war historian, New Zealand official history, comments on 1st draft from Brian Dickey, Adelaide. Includes Herring's inquisition of Allen's staff about the Battle of Pinios Gorge. (File 14) - Box 4
K. R. Denholm, two chapters of an unpublished book sent to me by Dr Ian Grant , author of a biography of Albert Jacka, VC. An accompanying note discusses Denholm's writing. (File 15) - Box 4
Subseries 1.7. WORKING FILES

Pictorial research and orders – chiefly Australian War Memorial.

Record of photocopies (File 1) - Box 5
Guides to Allen Papers, 3DRL 2381 and 4142 (File 2) - Box 5
National Archives of Australia searches (File 3) - Box 5
Allen – correspondence in (File 4) - Box 5
Allen – correspondence out (File 5) - Box 5
Allen family – correspondence, 1999-2004 (File 6) - Box 5
Allen project costs (File 7) - Box 5
Additional material not in the book. This consists of notes and a few documents that came to light after the book had gone to press. (File 8) - Box 5
Allen – further work. In progress at the time the book was completed in February 2004. (File 9) - Box 5
Subseries 1.8. PUBLICATION ARRANGEMENTS
Maps: Coulthard-Clark, C., Australia's military map-makers – notes. Lovejoy, V., mapmakers of Fortuna : a history of the Army Survey Regiment – notes. Research notes, Australian War Memorial and National Library of Australia – Maps collection. Correspondence with Prof. David Horner re selection of maps. (File 1) - Box 5
Photographs, captions, index (File 2) - Box 5
Emails – Prof. David Horner (File 3) - Box 5
Publication matters – Oxford University Press (File 4) - Box 5
Subseries 1.9. DRAFTS - Box 6-7

This includes early drafts before editing and culling. The book had to be reduced by about 10,000 to 15,000 words. Most of the 22 chapters went through 3 or 4 drafts.

Subseries 1.1. PROOFS - Box 6-7

Dated 17 May and 23 June 2004. The book was launched on 18 October 2004.

Series 2. Sir Neville Howse, VC, (1863-1930)

Additional materials added 9 May 2010 (n.b. earlier Howse files are held at MS Acc09.058).

Howse – World War I Dossier (File 25) - Box 8-9
War Diary, A.D.M.S., 1st Australian Division (File 26) - Box 8-9
Copies of papers in AWM 2 DRL 1351 (Howse papers) (File 27) - Box 8-9
Howse – Press cuttings, 1892-1922 (File 28) - Box 8-9
Howse – Press cuttings, 1923-1930 (File 29) - Box 8-9
Howse – Parliament, 1923-1929 (File 30) - Box 8-9
Howse – Medical Journal of Australia (File 31) - Box 8-9
Howse – Miscellaneous, including transcriptions of family letters (File 32) - Box 8-9
Howse – articles (Sir Kingsley Norris, M. Wales, London Hospital, etc.) (File 33) - Box 8-9
Photograph; pages from 1st draft, showing illustrations. About half of these were used in the published book (File 34) - Box 8-9
Administrative material – Taree, Orange (File 35) - Box 8-9
Administrative material – Australian War Memorial, National Film and Sound Archive (File 36) - Box 8-9

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