Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Amy Moore letters and postcards from Clarence Harris, 6 April 1915-23 October 1918
MLMSS 2590 (K22158 / Item 2)

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"England expects every man to do his duty"

Australian Expeditionary Forces
April 6/4/1915
Company Signallers Regiment Depot
On Active Service

Dear Tom
I received your welcome letter and was very pleased to hear from. I was going to write to you but I knew you would find out how we were getting and if I don’t write home every week they would bound to think something was wrong with us and as I write on an average of 2 to 3 letters a day and it is very awkward some times to get a position as there is such a crowd here waiting to write. Well we are having a real good time we have concerts every night, football, boxing etc.one can be accomated here in every way but the most exciting part is getting our tucker, one has got to hop out and act like a pig but I come at a bit of bluff and it has carried me through very well up to date. Well yesterday I was in to see the Show and if you would like to see something worth looking at that is the thing to see, but it is not worth my while telling you about

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you anything about the show as you will be able to read about it in the papers, but last night we went out to the White City and if we didn’t have a roaring time I can tell you soldiers are just the thing down here. You will read in yesterdays paper where the 17th, 18th,19th Battalion are going to Parade through Sydney on the 17th so our time is drawing close and we expect to be on the water before the end of this month is out so if we do we will have a fine trip before we go on the battle field but we are all keen on getting the Kaisers whiskers.
We will be getting our final leave shortly but I think we will only get 3 day so that won’t give us time to go home, so if I don’t go home I may go to Lockhart and spend a night but if I can I will try and get them to give me 7 days and I will send you a wire and you could see us a Gunbar or Hillston as it will be sometime I expect

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before we get back and then it all depends on how the square heads aim at us, but we all have got dry feet as yet but if a man can only live for 3 months he will see more in that time than one would see here in a lifetime and in my idea it will take a lot of men to put them down as last month the allies lost 23,000 men and only drove them back 2 miles so that is dear travelling.
I will try and get you some P.C of the camp as it is very interesting for you but we take no notice now as we are used to it. I have seen R.Poutter and Billy Jackson they are in the 17th Battalion and seem to like the drill very well but it has been so wet of late that we don’t get much time in. I have been trying to get some clothes dry that I washed a week ago, last week it rained 7 inches on Tuesday night up till Wednesday dinner time and it drowned us out and the tents fell down. I never seen so much water before there were 5000 men had to go into the City on Wednesday

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night to sleep as their tents were flooded but one will have to get used to being in trenches and being flooded out and the bullets singing round, it will be a bit of a change. It is a great pity that the Riverina is not getting a share of these rains but still it could rain there before you get this. I am glad you have so much work on hand, as I think you are lucky considering the bad season and the War together and I hope you are kept going as there is time yet for worse times.
Well Tom the night is creeping on and I have only got a few minutes to go and make my bed and if I am not pretty quick I will have to turn in in the dark as if one lights a candle after 10.15 he will be put in the Guards tent and I think it is flooded tonight and then be fined a dollar in the morning is not too nice.
So hoping this scrawl finds you all enjoying the best of health as the departure of this leaves Billy and I.

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Write whenever you get time as I am always pleased to get your letter and glad to be able to tell you anything about Camp life, but when we are on the other side we can only say we are well so you need not look for a long letter from us as they are all read before they are sent. So I must now conclude with love to all.
I remain
Your Aff. bro
Clarence
Signalling Depot
Millitary Camp
Liverpool

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[images for pages 6 and 7 are misaligned due to notebook layout]
For God, For King, For Country
Y.M.C.A.
With The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
Coy Sigs Bat 19th Bn
27/2/16 Egypt
Stationed at Abbessia No 4 Military Hospital

Dear Tom
I received your very welcome letter some time ago while I was at the [indecipherable] Signal School of Instruction and I was very pleased to hear from you. I was at the school [several words are indecipherable as the page is torn] class certificate as a Signaller so I had to work fairly solid to get it and all the spare time I had I was practicing and I did not answer my letters and when I went back to the Battalion all my mates told me I had got very fat but the Dr seen me and told me that I had the mumps and he sent me into the hospital but I was not very bad I was not in bed with them I came in here on the 8th and I will be going out on Tuesday but I am going to get my teeth done up before I go as the

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hard biscuits play up with bad teeth. I have met a couple of the Hillston boys in here so I have had some of my mates to talk to. I was over at Gallipoli or Anzac for four months and I was there till we evacuated. I had a real good time while I was in the trenches the hardest part is the loss of sleep but one soon gets used to that. It was very trying when we got the snow it was so awfully cold but we got extra blanket and an extra issue of rum
[several words are indecipherable as in the crease of the notebook]
as I believe a lot of them got frozen feet. I spent my Xmas over on Lemnos Island where we had a good easy time and we got our Xmas puddings and Billy cans so we had a great feast and then we came on to Alexandria to Tel-el-kebir. It is an old battle field where they fought in 1882 the old trenches are still there almost as good as ever and I found a lot of old bullets and some human bones but I was only there for four days and I was sent up to [indecipherable]. I got a letter

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from Mother and she said the you and Bert and Allen were up or Xmas and she said that Bert had got Pneumonia but he was improving so I hope he has shook it off by now there aught to be some fine fruit at home this year, we can get lovely oranges here for 1 shilling per dozen so I spend a few of my piastres in them.
There is a rumor going around the we are going to France for the Spring I hope we do as I very much like to go and have a smack at the Germans as I don’t think we will get another go at the Turks as the Russians seem to be shaking them up this last few weeks but they are great fighters real game sports. I have not heard from Will since Sept but I got word from home to say he had Enteric fever but that he was improving fast so I expect he will go back to Australia as Enteric is very rough on a man. I was never sick all the time I was away but dysentery was the worst sickness a man could get I got a

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slight touch of it but I got the Dr to inoculate me I got done 6 times so I ought not to get bad now with it.
I see in the papers where there has been a record harvest in Australia so things ought to be looking up over there now. Young George Mc Mahon is in the same Battalion as me so I get the Riverina Graziers off him, his people send it to him from Carrathool so I get a fair amount of the local news. They have been sending me the Hillston Spec and Lone Hands from home but I have only got one paper and two L.H. so they must be going astray somewhere.
Well Tom news are very scarce over here so I will have to draw this stale scrawl to a close hoping you all are enjoying the best of health as the departure of this leaves me OK.
I remain
your Aff. bro.
Clarence 19th Battalion
I am sending May a P.C. of Anzac and Mandros where I spent Xmas

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France
22/4/16

Dear Alice
I received your very welcome letter dated 10/1/16 yesterday and I was very pleased to hear from you, and to know that you were all well. Well I got over the mumps alright and rejoined the Battalion and we came over here we had a great trip across but I was sea sick from Alexandria to Malta but from Malta to Marseilles I enjoyed the trip the only thing it was a bit cold but that is nothing. We were taken for a march through the principal places in Marseilles and then we got on the train and it took us 56 hours to get to our destination but we did not mind as we got tea, coffee and rations all the way and we quite enjoyed the trip as there is some lovely scenery in the South of France and the weather is nice and warm compared to here. We are all billeted over here in shed, barns and houses etc. and we get plenty of clean straw to sleep on and we can buy eggs and bread or anything we want and the Y.M. C.A. has coffee and cakes so we can get it at cost price.

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(please no. your letters)
We had two days march from our first billets to here and we marched past General Jeffre and we had our own travelling kitchens to cook for us and the band so it was a real picnic, and then we had a few days rest and we went into the trenches but it was very quiet nothing like Gallipoli for rifle fire but we got a few coal boxes or shells over but we give them some back with interest. The only thing that is troubling us is we have a cat and if we get a gas attack he is very likely to go short of a respirator and we don’t want to lose him as he has been with us all the way from Egypt. We are only in the trenches for a few days and then we get relieved and we come back to our billets and have a rest which we can do with. I got two letter from Bill he is in England and seems to be having a great time but he has to undergo another operation.
We had a great treat today we were taken for a hot bath provided by the Military and we can give in our dirty clothes and get clean ones back so we will be able to keep ourselves clean

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as we can go down every time we come out of the trenches. It was hard luck for young Ledwidge losing his eye but one can lose more than that these times. I have seen Len Simpson but he is not in this Battalion now he is on the 5th Brigade and I have not seen Mick at all. I heard that Vick had enlisted but I have not got it from home as yet. I will try and send you along some P.C. from here if I can. It is a shame the way the places are smashed up around here all the windows are broken and in a great many cases houses are blown down.
There is a town like Wagga only 25 minutes walk from the firing line but it is broken up although the people are living there I can’t tell you where I am over here but I am in a good place just now living in a nice room and very little to do. Well Alice I have not got much news to tell you and we are not allowed to say anything, but we will soon be back in Australia again with a glorious victory. With best love to all
Yours as ever
Clarence
PS I got a letter from Tom he was out on [indecipherable] then so I sent him a P.C. but I will write again in a few days as we get plenty of time to write now.

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France
7/6/16
Dear Alice and Tom
Just a few lines to let you know I am still going strong over here.
I have been in the trenches a fair amount and I find it a lot better than Gallipoli as we are only in for a few day and then we come back to our billets and have a rest. The country is very pretty over here now, all the hedges are out in flower and the trees have all got their leaves on and the weather is coming out nice and warm and I am not sorry either. I heard that Vic failed to pass at Coota on account of his leg, I thought it would go against him and the training would bring it on him again. I seen George McMahon yesterday he is doing well he is not in this Battalion but his billet is close to me and he brought me down a couple of Riverina Graziers yesterday so I got some of the local news but the war news from Australia are very stale over here as we get all the latest papers from England only a few hours old so we are well

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posted up with the news. I have not got my leave for England yet but there are a good many going and they say they have a great time and they say the people treat them splendidly. I have not heard from Bill of late but the last letter I got from him he was doing well but he did not know when he would be returning to Australia as he had to undergo another operation for his fingers. Len Simpson is not in this Battalion now but he is in this Brigade, I have not seen him for such a long time.
Well Alice I will have to draw this scrawl to a close as news are very scarce over here. So hoping this finds you all enjoying the best of health as the departure of this leaves me.
I remain with best love
Clarence

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Y.M.C.A.
Australian Imperial Forces

France 13/10/17

Dear May
I received your and Beatric very welcome letter yesterday and was very pleased to hear form you and I was very much surprised at the nice long letter you write. I feel real ashamed to think I can’t write more but of course we don’t get much news over here and of course censorship prohibits telling war news. Well I must thank you for your very kind wish regarding my stripes well I’m pleased to say that I have got three now and if all goes well in the near future I hope to have the pleasure of pulling them down and gaining a commission and that will be tres bon wouldn’t it.
I have read in the Hay paper of the grand reception they gave W. Jackson V.C. it must have been very nice I’m sure and the money would be very useful to him with his arm off poor lad. When you write again don’t forget to let me know what lot your

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your Uncle Joe is in as I see such a lot of W.A. battalions that I could easily look him up one of these fine days.
I am pleased to hear of you taking such a prominent part in the concerts it must have been a great success when you were invited over to Leeton must be very fine. We had a splendid troop visit this school a couple of nights ago . They had all the latest songs from London and the music was simply lovely and the singing, well there was one fellow who sang I don’t think I ever heard in either Sydney or London such a lovely voice.
Well I have missed the big advance that is now taking place the first I have missed since I left Australia. I have seen a lot of our boys who were down in it a couple of days ago they say it is a wonderful fight they are giving old Fritz one of the greatest trouncing he has ever had. They have found quite bits of boys chained to machine guns how terrible it must be and they surrender every chance they get, but still we won’t be home for this Xmas but lents hope for the next and I feel sure we will be right home in our country. I have seen such a lot of our American troops they

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are such big fellows and real hard cases. I was in town with some of them a few weeks ago and we had a real high time together and I’m going in again tomorrow weather permitting, but we can’t rely on the weather now it has been raining for the last week and such strong cold wind blowing and on one or two mornings we have had heavy frosts on the ground.
I’m doing very well now I am at a big Signal School to qualify for an instructor which I think will be very easy as I’ve passed all the test now and there is another fortnight to go, if I get a first class pass it will enable me to go to Blighty first vacancy that will not be too hard to take will it.
Guess you know most of the people in Whitton now I liked them very well when I was there especially the girls that used to

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go to the dances they were tres bon. Do you know the Miss Thompson with the bad leg she was a very nice girl her mother looked after Les Nichless so well when we were camped in the Shire well yard and we used to go over there and play card of an evening. If you happen to know her you might please remember me to her and Mrs Gordon De Manuel.
Well I guess I’ll have to put this scrawl a close as it is near lights out and I have got to catch my train early in the morning. So trusting you are all enjoying the best of health as this scrawl leaves me at present.
I remain
Your Loving Uncle
Clarence
P.S. I will write to Bert tomorrow.

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France 7/5/18
My Dear May
I received your very welcome letter of 15/2/18 and I was very pleased to hear form you, but May I can’t understand why you have not been getting my letters as I have written a lot to you since I wrote the one in French but it seems it must have been a failure perhaps it did not get passed the censor.
Well May we have been having a very busy time of late fighting old Fritz but of course you will be getting all the news on the papers. He has retaken all the ground where we had such hard fighting but never mind we will beat him in the long run and his casualties have been very heavy. Our machine guns play havoc with his troops they cut him down like a hay crop and that is the stuff to give him.
Well May in Mother’s last letter she told me of Muriel’s wedding it

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came as a great surprise to me. I never knew anything about it until I got the letter saying she was married and in Sydney on her honeymoon, and I believe Bill is married it is all news to me but I seem to lose such a lot of my mail but it is only to be expected with all the trouble on the High Seas at present.
I would very much like to meet your Uncle Joe over here be sure and send me his address as I will look him up one of these days.
I am very pleased to hear of Mr H Smith of Carrathool getting the position as Overseer to the Council as he is such a gentleman. Maur Magpie must be a bit of a trick he must have given your girl friend a fright and to get its claws tangled in her hair would be no joke would it?
You asked me May if I was going to try for a Commission well I don’t think so, but should I ever get the opportunity well I most certainly would but it is

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a bit hard for some to rise to that so my address is just the same and I think it will be for some time to come but I am quite satisfied.
Well may how do you like living up at Whitton, it is rather a nice place do me after the war.
Well May I have just got a harty order to fall in
So with best love
I remain
Your loving uncle
Clarence

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YMCA
Australian Imperial Forces
France
14/9/18

My dear May
I received your ever welcome letter few days ago and I was very pleased to hear from you and to know you were all well at the time.
Well May we have been having a very busy time over here of late plenty of work and fighting but we have dome remarkably well and we are now in our [indecipherable] positions and in some cases nearer Berlin than we have been and we done some great work in catching prisoners and guns which all help in times like these. Well after our first big Spasm

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I got 8 days leave to Paris and may O had a great time. Paris is a beautiful city beats London easy everything is so artistic and the great wide Boulevards are fine. I done some great tripping around while I was there, out to Versailles Palace where Louis XIV lived it is a lovely palace and the grounds are done up in such a way that one can’t help but admire them both from their beauty points and arthecture is fine and then I took a trip up the River Seine and passed under the 37 bridges of Paris and then up to St Coland a beautiful hill where you can see all the beautiful buildings and Avenues around the district and the best of all to the

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Bois de Bologne. It is a huge park with lakes and shady nooks we spent a great day on the water. I was very fortunate while I was down there I had a Canadian Sgt. and a friend out of this Brigade to knock around with and they were great sports. The Theatres in Paris are very poor and a wee bit on the rough side and they are carried on much different to ours in Aust. or England but one can enjoy themselves. Well of course my 8 days soon slipped by and I had to come back to the line and for another hop over and my Officer had gone on to Blighty

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so of course I had to carry on with the good work but we done very well and we got compliments for it so that is very nice to know.
We are out of the line now resting and having sports meeting but the sports are very tame as you might easily guess, but it breaks the monotony of war.
We had one fellow out of this Battalion go to Aust. on leave this morning, I wouldn’t mind taking his place for 6 months, what a time one would have.
Well May I will have to ring off for this time. Trusting you all are enjoying the best of health as this scrawl has me at present.
I am
Your Aff. Uncle
Clarence

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France
23/10/18
My dear May
I received your most welcome letter dated the 18/7/18 and I was very pleased to hear from you and to know you were all well at the time of writing. You will no doubt be wondering what has happened to me for not writing as I let about 7 weeks elapse without dropping anyone a letter but we were so busy that I could not find time and when I had time there was no paper or envelopes as one doesn’t like sending field cards but perhaps they are better than nothing. Well May I have quite recovered from the touch of gas that I got but the last turn in. I got a few blisters but nothing to harm and you say you don’t like the smell of it, the stuff they generate at the school, well there is a gas used over her that is a lovely smell it is just like pineapples and it makes one’s eyes sore and run terribly, but our respirators are proof against any of it so we have nothing to fear on that serve.
Yes, I heard Mum was going to the Wagga Show the trip would do her good, a change from Woobalong as it must be very quiet up there now.

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Joe has returned it would be nice for his wife and family to have him back again and I don’t think he will be very likely to come back again but of course there is no telling is there.
Be hapes things turnout favourably for poor old Uncle Sam, I was very sorry to hear of his misfortune but perhaps it will end well for him. He must have had some great tripping around Victoria and N.S.W... I will try and send you some views of France but it is hard to get P.C. away as of course you will understand.
No I did not know Mr Broad from "Couba" or I don’t remember him but I wish I could have a share of his luck to get back and he accorded such a welcome as you mentioned, I am sure he must have felt proud to think his friend had realised his service to such an extent.
I am pleased you mentioned in your letter about my old friends in Whitton, Old Mrs Thompson treated Les Nichols and I splendidly while we were there and Mrs Gordon, D Manuel she was a lovely dancer and poor Ada still a cripple.
I guess you will be some dancer by the time I get back, I will have

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to get you to give me some lessons on the late Tangoes and two step. Have you tried your hand at skating that is good fun. I was in Luna Park in Paris and had a great time on the rollers the floor was very lively and of course I came the customary falls but soon got my balance and with a couple of soldiers we made the pace a [indecipherable].
We are out of line now having a rest and we get plenty of games such as football. It is good now as the weather is starting to get cold and at night we go to the Y.M.C.As and play cards, chess, draughts etc. it all helps to put in the time these long evenings, and our Battalion has started a gymnasium and so we hop along and have a fly at the punching ball or with the boxing gloves.
I was surprised to hear Dad had resigned his position in the Shire, but I think the Blacksmiths Shop will be a great paying concern, I hope so. My word I’ll line up when I get back for a job as I am a striker you know, and a fellow may want a job après le guerre and would be right on the spot. How do you think I would get on? It would be a bit different using a heavy hammer all day.

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after carrying a rifle and revolver for the past 3 ½ years.
Well May I was awarded the Military Medal for the 9/8/18 for doing a bit of brisk work. I have not got the medal yet but I am wearing the ribbon. I suppose I will be decorated later by one of our Generals so that is not so bad is it, and of course there may be more to follow if this war continues but I don’t think it will last long now do you?
Well May I will have to ring off for this time trusting you are all enjoying the best of health as this scrawl leaves me at present.
I remain
Your loving Uncle
Clarence

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[Post card, pressed flower with Greetings from France]

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France
29/7/17
Dear May
Just a few lines to let you know I am still going strong over here. It is a long time since I have heard from you but guess you have not been able to decipher that letter I wrote to you in French it only took me two hours to write it. Trusting you all are enjoying the very best of health as this scrawl leaves me at present.
I remain your loving Uncle
Clarence

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[Postcard… Koln a Rh. Panorama bei Nacht]

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[Postcard.. Koln Kaiser Wilhelm-Denkmat]

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[Postcard of Exeter, Cathedral Green]

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Belgium 27/1/18
Dear May
Just a P.C. to let you know I am still going strong. I guess you will see by this P.C. that it show rather an historic building, where I put the x dates back to 1580. Contains Elizabethan panelled rooms, formerly the meeting rooms of Raleigh, Drake, Gilbert and other Naval and Military Heroes of the Armada period and is open free to visitors daily. I had a look through this old place and found it very interesting. I hope to be leaving Belgium en route for England in 3/2/19 and then to Australia
Your loving Uncle
Clarence

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[Postcard of Koln a Rh. Neue Hangebrucke]

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[Postcard to commemorate the completion of 1000 days active service
From Uncle Clarence
Battalion France
To May
Pictured A Long Haired Lass Holding The Australian Flag
And The Words Galllipoli, Egypt, Bois Grenier, Poziers, Flers,
Malt Trench Loupartwood, Agnicourt, Bullecourt, Garterpoint, Passchendale Justice, Liberty And The Initals Hcw]

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France 26/9/18
My Dear May
Just a few lines to let you know I am still going strong over here and carrying on with the war, and don’t you think we are doing fine work, we have got the old Bosch thinking somewhat now don’t you? And what fine news have been reaching us from the Holy Lands, it will do us. Well May the weather is starting to get wintery now but we have not had over much rain but of course it will come next month, but I’d hope that it will keep off. Well May don’t forget to write and I will have to ring off for this time trusting you all are well as this scrawl leaves me at present. I remain with best love Clarence

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[Postcard: He’ll Be Home Soon, Sick And Wounded
A picture of a soldier with a bloodied head bandage carrying a rifle
Drawn by Harry J. Weston]

Give Him A Helping Hand

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[Postcard of ASSUAN View near Cateract Hotel
A picture of the river,sand and date palms.]

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Mrs T.G.Harris
Murray Street
Hay
N.S.W
Australia

Pinsula
14/9/15
Dear Tom and Alice
We are doing splendidly over here and like the place real well. Hoping you all are well as the departure of this letter leaves OK.
Love from
Clarence

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[Postcard : Memorial Erected In Brussels
To Miss Edith Cavell
Killed by the germans 12 October 1915]

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Belgium 23/4/19
My Dear May,
Your most welcome letter reached me safely yesterday and I was very pleased to hear from you. Well May I have been having a splendid time over here of late. I have been to Brussels, Antwerp and Waterloo. I put a week in on the trip and enjoyed it very much and expect to be leaving here on the 3/3/19 for England en route to Australia where I hope to see you on my way home but I don’t expect to arrive before June next but the time will soon fly around won’t it. Trusting all are well as this scrawl leaves me,
Your lov. Uncle
Clarence

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[Small photo of bungalows Port Gewfick]

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[Postcard of Koln a Rh. Panorama showing the river, cathedral and other buildings]

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Cologne 15/3/19
Dear May
Just a few P.C. to let you see what a fine city this is. I am on 4 days leave here. Tomorrow I am going up to Bon to see the Universities etc. Trusting you are all well as these leave me having a bon time.
I remain your loving Uncle
Clarence

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[Postcard]

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France 16/9/18

My Dear May,
Just a few lines to let you know I am still going strong over this way. I’m sending you this P.C. as a souvenir but of course we completed our 1000 days some months ago, abut that makes no difference, this is the card.
Well May I’ll have to ring off hoping all are well as this scrawl leaves me at present
I remain
Your loving Uncle
Clarence

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[Photo : Lieut. H.Rush A.I.F.1915, Col. Humphris V.D.D.S.O. Camp Commandant, Lieut. J.Costello, A and I Staff, Lieut.F.Lonsdale Adjutant, and Major W.Baxter Qtr. Master.]

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[Photo: The Australian Midget aged 34 years height 37 inches weight 40 lbs with his younger brother 6 ft high 16 stone]

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[Photo of the Y.M.C.A. field Marquee at A.I.F. Liverpool European War 1915]

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[Photo of a wedding cake
Sargents Ltd. 252 Pitt St Sydney
Two tier, complete as above 30 shillings average weight 12 lbs]

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[Postcard of a parade
Funerailles Des Victimes De La Terrible Catastrophe Du ‘liberte’ defile des marins]

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Mrs T.G.Harris
Murray St
Hay N.S.W.
Australia 5/4/16
France

Dear Alice I hope you are all well as the departure of this leaves me OK
With best love
Clarence

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[Postcard of Amiens La Cathedrale et le pont du Dom]

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France 30/1/18
My dear May
Just a P.C. to let you know I am still going strong over this side of the Globe. I am sending you this card so as to give you an idea of what the Amiens cathedral is like. I was in the city about a fortnight ago and the Hun has put three shells through it but is badly damaged as he shelled it very heavy and bombed it a treat, but the civil population is coming back in thousands now.
Trusting you all are well as this scrawl leaves me OK
I remain your loving Uncle
Clarence

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[Postcard of CAIRO Medin Square-LL]

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5 Aug. 15

Miss M Harris
Murray Street
Hay
N.S.W.
Australia

On active service

Dear May
We are having a lovely time over here but, it is very hot weather
Love from Uncle Clarence No 7669 Batallion
5 BDGE
AIF
Egypt

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[Postcard of St Catherine’s Almshouse, now the church Army Labour Home Exeter, at the rear of Mol’s coffee house
A drawing by S. Endacott]

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[Postcard of Inner courtyard, Exeter Cathedral Close, just below Mol’s Coffee House.
A drawing by S. Endacott]

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[Postcard of Warehouse Cr. Wentworth Avenue and Goulbourn Street Sydney
Griffiths Bros. Pty.Ltd (Tea Merchants) Melbourne. Sydney. Adelaide. Brisbane.]

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[Postcard "It‘s A Long Way To Tipperary" a photo of many soldiers in formation marching adjacent to a railway station.]

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[Postcard]

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[Postcard of The Meavy Valley, Harter and Leather Tors, Princetown. Princetown, Dartmoor; 1400 feet above sea level, the highest place in England that can be called a town. A breed of Scotch cattle are seen here.]

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[Postcard]

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[Postcard of The old Priory of St Nicholas, Exeter: in the old days.
A water colour by S Endacott]

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[Postcard]

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[The old Cavaliers house in Fore Street, Exeter, (Supposed hiding place of King Charles) a water colour by S.Endercott (part of the Worth’s series as are the others by this artist)]

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[Postcard of "The Bivouac" A.I.Forces " The Weir Liverpool" European War 1915]

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[Card with the Australian flag at half-mast and a blue and brown stripe]
Private
Paul Stanislaus Baxter
35th Battalion Stretcher Bearer
Killed In Actin –france
June 9th 1917
Aged 21 Years
In answer to his country’s call
He gave his best-his life, his all.
R.I.P.
Mr and Mrs J.P.Baxter
and Family
return grateful thanks for
kind expressions of sympathy
in their great loss

Goldhanger Hay N.S.W.

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[Postcard]

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[Old House, King Street, Exeter. a watercolour by S.Endacott]

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[Postcard of "Federation style" Australian home with a white wooden fence and surrounded with flowers. Love from Alice is written on the front.]

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Mr LG Harris
Hatandra
Gunbar
Via Carrathool

Wishing you all a Happy New Year. We had a pretty quiet Xmas only four home for dinner 7 for tea we all went to church last night but it was too hot for me. I wonder where Father spent his Xmas.

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[Postcard of Hospital at Hay]

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To Grandma and Grandpa
Wishing you a happy Xmas and bright New Year
From all at Murray St

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[Postcard of The Alexandra Gardens Weymouth]

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[Postcard of Guernsey, Fermain Bay]

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[Postcard "Departure Of Troops" European War 1915]

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[Postcard]
Bensdorp’s
Royal Dutch
Coco and Chocolate
Amsterdam

Sole Importer
A Leibner
Melbourne

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[Postcard of Herries Street Toowoomba Q postmarked 16 Dec 1907]

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Mrs L.G. Harris
Hathandra
Gunbar
Via Hay N.S.W.
"Cory Meg" Cambooy on Dec 15
I wish you a very happy Xmas and Bright and prosperous New Year heaps of love to you from [indecipherable]

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[Postcard of Coeln Partie am Leystapel]

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[Postcard drawn by S.Endacott]

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[Postcard of Old shop facing Exeter Post Office]

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[Postcard of Antoing Yue sur les Ponts]

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[Addressed to Bert Harris Murray St Hay]

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[Postcard of Coeln: Dom, Sudseitte ( von Rathausen gesehen)

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[Postcard of Coeln: Habsburgerring und Opernhaus]

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[Postcard of Poste des Dounaniers au Pont de Latargetie]

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[Postcard of Queen Street Brisbane]

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to Signaller C.Harris NO 11
19th Battalion
5th Brigade
A.I.F.
Cairo
Egypt

Dear Uncle, I received your card and was glad to hear from you. There are several wounded soldiers returned to Hay. With love to you both from all. Your loving niece, May E D Harris

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[Postcard of Cairo General View Sowards Serghatmach]

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Mrs.T.G. Harris
Murray St Hay
N.S.W. Australia

On Active service 30/7/15
Letter later
Dear Alice and Tom
We had a very fine trip across, and we like the camp very well we are only 25 minutes run by the electric train so I have had a fairly good look at Cairo. With Love to all.
Signaller C. Harris No 70
19th Battalion ,5th Brigade A.I.F. Heliopolis

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[Postcard of EGYPT The Sphinx and the Pyramids of Cheops]

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Mrs T.G. Harris
Murray St Hay
N.S.W.Australia

6/9/15
Dear Alice, We are doing very well over here and like the place very much. Hoping you all are well as the departure of this leaves us OK. With best love
Clarence

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[Postcard of heath and hills details]

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"Baytor Rock" near Bovey and Newton Abbot, on the G.W.R. one of the best known Tors on Dartmoor.

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Postcard of Koln a. Rh. Hauptbahnhof

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Postcard of Greek Church of Moudros

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Miss May Harris Murray St
Hay New South Wales
Australia

On Active Service
Egypt 17/1/16
My Dear May, Just a few lines to let you know that I am well and hoping you all are the same. I am writing later
Love Clarence

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[Postcard of Zakazik Chareh Kicarieh]

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Mr T.G.Harris Murray St Hay
N.S.W. Australia

8/9/15
On Active Service
Dear Tom
We are having a famous time over here and like it well. Hoping you all are well as the departure of this leaves us OK.
Love from Clarence Harris No 70

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[Postcard of Koln a.Rh. Hohenzollernbrucke]

[Transcribed by Trish Barrett for the State Library of New South Wales]