Primary sources related to the 7th Australian Light Horse

Along with books, I'm interested in keeping track of diaries and memoirs written by members of the 7th Australian Light Horse.

Austrlian War Memorial holdings:

ID Number: PR00624
Title: The Capel family
Correspondence of Capel family. Includes letters to father Albert and others from : Private Sydney Capel of 7th Light Horse Regiment from England and Palestine.

ID Number: 3DRL/6257
Title: Easterbrook, Claude Cadman (Major, DSO, MC, 7th LH Regt)
NARRATIVE OF 2 LH BDE OPERATIONS, SEPT - OCT 1918. ACCOUNT OF OPS IN JORDAN VALLEY/ES SALT AREA, MAY 1918. TRAINING NOTES. OPS NOTES 1917. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION. CERTIFICATES, MEMORANDA, SOUVENIRS.

ID Number: 3DRL/7264
Title: Humphreys, Thomas F (Lieutenant, 7th Light Horse Regiment)
Commissioning Warrant of Lieutenant Humphreys. Letter of farewell from members of B Squadron.

ID Number: 1DRL/0611
Title: Youdale, A C (Captain, MC and Two Bars, 7 Light Horse Regiment, AIF, 21 Squadron, RFC)
DETAILED NARRATIVE OF YOUDALE'S SERVICE WITH 7TH LH REGIMENT IN EGYPT AND GALLIPOLI.

ID Number: PR00445
Title: Johnson, Geoffrey Alan (Trooper)
Copy of roll of honour and accompanying letters relating to members of 'A' company, 7th Light Horse Regiment (NSW Lancers), who served in the First World War.

ID Number: PR00556
Title: Ryrie, Granville (Colonel)
Letter of sympathy sent to Mrs Kirby from Ryrie at `Ryries Post Office', Gallipoli. Mentions regret at loss of her son Ted (Edmund) of the 7th Light Horse, who was killed in action on 2nd July, and that her other son is still with Ryrie's headquarters.

ID Number: 2DRL/0212
Title: Magill, E L (Corporal, 7th LH Regt d: 1915)
REGULAR ENTRIES. DESCRIBES CONDITIONS ON GALLIPOLI AND WORK IN WHICH HE WAS ENGAGED. FAIRLY DETAILED. GIVES INFORMATION ON CASUALTIES. MAY - OCT 1915.

ID Number: PR84/153
Title: White, W F (Sergeant, 7th LHR, AIF B C1892 d: 1983)
PHOTOCOPIED EXTRACTS FROM A HISTORY OF THE 7TH LH, LETTERS RELATING TO THE 7TH ALH ASSOCIATION, MINUTES OF REUNION MEETING OF 7TH ALH IN 1972, 2 NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS OF BOOK REVIEWS INCLUDING ONE ON THE 106 NSW LANCERS IN THE BOER WAR.

ID Number: PR85/016
Title: Morgan, Raymond D (Private, 7th Lh)
EXPERIENCES AT GALLIPOLI FROM TIME OF LANDING (1915).

ID Number: 3DRL/3235
Title: Jarman, Cecil T (Major, 7th Lhr)
LETTERS HOME - QUITE DETAILED. MAPS OF VARIOUS PARTS OF THE GALLIPOLI PENINSULA. ROUTINE AND GENERAL ORDERS ISSUED BY CHAUVEL IN EGYPT 1919. EXTRACTS AND TYPESCRIPT COPIES OF CAPTURED ENEMY DOCUMENTS.

ID Number: 3DRL/3386
Title: Quinane, Patrick J (Trooper, 7th L H Regt)
BRIEF ENTRIES COVERING SERVICE AND WOUNDING ON GALLIPOLI, HOSPITALIZATION AND RETURN TO AUSTRALIA.

ID Number: 3DRL/3538
Title: Wikner, Halfdan I (Lieutenant Colonel, 7th L H Regt)
MESS RULES. TURKISH ORDERS AND TRANSLATIONS. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE. PAPERS RELATING TO NSW LANCERS. NOMINAL ROLL, 12TH REINFORCEMENTS 7TH L H REGT. 4 NOTEBOOK/DIARIES CONTAINING LITTLE INFORMATION. SOME MESSAGES. FLYING NOTES.

ID Number: PR84/240
Title: Truman, A C (Trooper, 7th LHR and AFC)
DIARY WITH DAILY ENTRIES DESCRIBING PATROLS, LACK OF WATER, BURIALS AND AIR SURVEILLANCE BY THE ENEMY. POSTCARDS AND PROGRAMMES FOR AN AFC SPORTS MEETING AND A NEW YEARS DAY CONCERT

ID Number: PR01518
Title: Kendall, Guy Bail (Trooper), 1893 - 1915
Transcript of an original diary kept by Trooper Guy Basil Kendall, who served with the 7th Light Horse Regiment at Alexandria, during the First World War.


Next I'll look at primary sources held in libraries in Australia.