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69822
  • Title
    Souvenir of the Great War [album] / Lewis G. Pimblett
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXB 235
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    1917-1918
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    69822
  • Physical Description
    1 album (including drawings, watercolours, photoprints, badges, and tickets) - 19.5 x 22.5 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    2. LGP [decorative initials] / Lewis G. Pimblett, Salisbury Plains, 19 May 1917
    3. Souvenir of the Great War [embroidered panel]
    5. "So this is where father comes fishing" [cartoon] / Lew Pimblett, 18 May 1917
    7. a) Badge worn by the French Engineers - b) Badge worn by Portuguese Red Cross - c) German identification disc - d) This was written by a Chinaman with the Chinese Labor Corps - e) French Railway ticket - German coins [1 missing when received] - f) Badge from German helmet
    9. "There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams" [cartoon] / Lew Pimblett
    11. A dinkum Australian [cartoon] / Lew Pimblett
    13. This picture was picked up in a cellar at Bapaume while the town was burning [printed illustration]
    15. General Joffre, Guerre 1914/15 - a souvenir from a French soldier / France 10 Sept 1917, Campagne
    16. Iron Cross ribbons worn by a German prisoner
    18. A study in black & white [female portrait] / Lew Pimblett 1917
    19. Sixth T. B. Band [signatures] / Lew Pimblett
    21. Stripes of a Portuguese Captain
    22. Felicitations in Hindustani, France, 12 Oct 1917
    23. [male portrait]
    24. A German field service card / Ypres, Belgium 5 Oct 1917
    25. A French field service card / Campagne, France 4 Sept 1917
    27. The explanation ... [cartoon] / Lew Pimblett, 1917
    29. Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, 22nd Battalion Brass band somewhere in France [signatures]
    30. German paper money
    31. To my mates - The bugles of England ...
    33. Dodging the blockade [cartoon] / Lew Pimblett, 11 June 1917
    34. Major Murray [signature] 23 Aug 1917
    35. Private Bill ... [cartoon] / Lew Pimblett
    37. Officers Sixth Brigade [signatures] / Lew Pimblett
    39. Sergeants Sixth T.B. [signatures]
    40. A Front Line photograph / by No. 2 Advanced Section
    41. Souvenir from a Belgium soldier, Belgium border, 16 Oct 1917
    43. Snow scene - Spring cleaning - Snow scene - 6th T.B. Camp - Stonehenge - Figheldene Church - Salisbury Cathedral - City Cross, Salisbury - The Text House - Shrewton - Capetown [photographs]
    44. Stonehenge 3d. - Admit one soldier in uniform [entrance ticket]
    45. Stonehenge [painting] / Lew Pimblett, 1917
    46. Fuzzy Wuzzy [female portrait] / Fred Stafford, 1917, Tivoli Theatre, Belgium
    46a. Frederick Stafford, Scenic Artist [business card]
    47. A suggestion ... [cartoon] / Lew Pimblett, 22 May 1917
    48. Ribbon from Lt. W. Ruthven's, Victoria Cross
    49. Sights of London ... [cartoon] / Lew Pimblett
    50. A.R. Wi...? C.O. 22nd Battalion [signature]
    51. The cycles of life [painting] / Robert A. Brodie, 1917
    53. Miss Cecily Pimblett
    54. The crew of a British tank [signatures]
    55. Extract from letter found on German Officer, descriptive of the awful bombardment by the British
    56. Ribbon from the First Military Cross won in the Twenty Second [22nd] Battalion, A.I.F. by Lt. Baizley
    57. In some succeeding year ... [verse] / Arthur Green, 23rd Batt., 6th Brigade, ... England
    59. Souvenir from Indian Light Cavalry [group portrait] / Steenvoorde, 11 Oct 1917
    61. A piece of an aeroplane in which two airmen were killed while flying at Salisbury Plains
    63. Facing the music [cartoon] / Lew Pimblett
    64-65. Manuscript notations
    66. Picked up on Pozieres battlefield [embroidered panel]
    67. Manuscript notations
    68. Albert Jacka, Capt. 14th Battn. A.I.F., Ypres 23 Sept 1917 - the first Australian V.C. hero in the Great War [sketch of medal]
    69. Four specimens of `Kultur' [group portrait], Belgium, 11 Oct 1917
    70. a) British flag (satin) - b) Mother & child (on material) - c) Pressed leaf - d) Piece of Morrison tarton with crest (on material) - e) The Dorsetshire Regt. crest (on material) - f) Distinquished Service Order (on material) - g) Young female portrait (on material) - h) Tobler Chokolado paper
    72-75. [manuscript notations with signatures]
    77. Watercolor drawing by H.S. Merson, Ypres, Belgium, 26 Sept 1917
    78. `The village blacksmith' [newscutting]
    79. This leaf was taken from the spreading chestnut tree Figheldene near Salisbury this spot is claimed to be where Longfellow wrote his great poem `The village blacksmith'
    81. Parts of two British aeroplanes which collided in mid-air at Ypres, on Sept 29 1917 ...
    83. Letter taken from a German prisoner during the fighting at Ypres, 21 Sept 1917
    85. [5 miniature portraits + 7 national flags] / Lew Pimblett
    87. [Canal and bridge] watercolour
    89. This was written by Flemish peasants who live on the Belgium and French border [Manuscript notation]
    90-91. Signatures of soldiers in France
    93. a) Belgium penny [missing when received] - b) German Iron Cross ribbon - c) Lace made by Belgium refugees - d) Brass rubbing of German medal
    95. [Female portrait] / Lew Pimblett
    96. [Male portrait]
    97. [Manuscript notation] July 4 1918
    98. A few expressions [cartoons] / LGP, France 10 Oct 1917
    100. A postcard from India, France, 15 Nov 1917
    101. King Albert, Belgium, 8 Nov 1917 / Lew Pimblett
    102-103. Men who have won the Military Medal somewhere in France - for bravery in the field [signatures]
    104. Aerial photograph of the German trenches
    105. Fun near the line [photograph]
    106. Never mind the tax, so long as there's some dark [cartoon] / H.S. Merson, 22 Battalion, France
    108. Pals - W. Pomroy, F. Stevens, G. Smith, C. Allchurch, W. Thurburn, E. Rossie, H. Sullivan, C. Roffe, L. Pimblett, H. Sutherland, H. Pimblett, E. Short, D. Pearman, W. Penman, W. Thurburn, J. Bulch [portraits]
    110. What the steel helmet feels like at first [cartoon]
    111. [Kookaburra] / Alf Lockwood, 22nd Batt. A.I.F., France 28 July 1917
    113. Butte De Warlencourt, from memory / by H.S. Merson
    114. Should this book go astray kindly send to: Mrs L.G. Pimblett ... Sydney, Australia
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955 - applies to photographs.
    Copyright restrictions may apply: Artistic works where the creator died before 1955 are out of copyright. Artistic works where the creator died after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
    State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
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