Hogue family papers relating to Oliver Hogue, 1912-1920

MLMSS 8814/Boxes 1-4

fonds

1912-1920

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs, Ephemera

1012274

0.47 metres of textual material, 713 photographs and 22 objects (4 boxes)

Oliver Hogue (1880-1919), journalist of Glebe Point, Sydney enlisted aged 34 in the Australian Imperial Force as a trooper with the 6th Light Horse Regiment, Sept. 1914. Commissioned second lieutenant in November, he embarked for Egypt with the 2nd L.H. Brigade on the Suevic, 20 Dec. 1914. Hogue served on Gallipoli with the Light Horse (dismounted) for five months, was promoted lieutenant May 1915 and had a temporary appointment as orderly officer to Colonel (Sir) Granville Ryrie, the brigade commander. He was invalided to England with enteric fever, Oct. 1915. In Nov. 1916 he was seconded to Double Squadron at Abbassia. Oliver Hogue went through the whole campaign of the Desert Mounted Corps, but was admitted to 3rd London General Hospital with influenza, Feb. 1919 and died on 3 March 1919. He was buried in the Australian military section of Brookwood cemetery. He was unmarried. His twin sister Amy had died the previous year.

As 'Trooper Bluegum' he wrote articles for the Herald subsequently collected in the books Love Letters of an Anzac (London, 1916) and Trooper Bluegum at the Dardanelles (London, 1916). Sometimes representing war as almost a sport, he took pride in seeing 'the way our young Australians played the game of war'. As well as the articles sent to Australia, and some in English magazines, Hogue wrote a third book, The Cameliers (London, 1919), also some verse. His contributions to Australia in Palestine (Sydney, 1919), edited by H. S. Gullett and C. Barrett, were two poems and an essay on the Camel Brigade.

Reference:
National Archives of Australia
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hogue-oliver-6700 (accessed 12 December, 2012)

SERIES 01
Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-26 February 1919

SERIES 02
Oliver Hogue pictorial material, 1915-1919

SERIES 03
Hogue family realia, ca. 1912-1920

SERIES 04
Unidentified World War I soldiers, possibly Lieutenant Oliver Hogue, ca. 1914-1919

Letters in Folder 4 are incomplete

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters