Series 01 Part 07: Walter Lawry Waterhouse papers relating to World War I, 1915-1919

MLMSS 2792 (K 21690, K 21692)

series

1915-1919

Textual Records, Cartographic Materials, Manuscript Cartographic Materials, Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs

1027020

Digitised : 2014

Walter Lawry Waterhouse enlisted in the A.I.F. 21 June 1915 aged 27 years. He applied for a commission 11 Jan. 1916, embarked from Sydney on HMAT Osterley, 15 Jan. 1916 and served with the 2nd Battalion, 14th Reinforcements and 1st Infantry Brigade in France and Belgium. His brother Jabez Leonard Lawry Waterhouse also served in the AIF and his sister Olive worked as a V.A.D. at the 21st General Hospital and Y.M.C.A., Alexandria.
Walter Waterhouse was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry, Sept. 1916, was wounded in action 12 Nov. 1916 and returned to Australia on the Kanowna, 8 Mar. 1917.

ITEM 01
Walter Lawry Waterhouse diary, 15 January-27 March 1916 (Box K21690)

ITEM 02
Walter Lawry Waterhouse diary, 28 March 1916-20 November 1916 (Box K21690)

ITEM 03
Walter Lawry Waterhouse diary, 4 April 1916-19 November 1916 (Box K21690)

ITEM 04
Letters to Walter Lawry Waterhouse, 17 August 1916-15 February 1921 (Box K21692)

ITEM 05
Walter Lawry Waterhouse notebook, May 1917-Mar. 1918 (Box K21692)

ITEM 06
Walter Lawry Waterhouse notebooks, 1915 (Box K21692)

ITEM 07
Walter Lawry Waterhouse field message book, ca. 1915 (Box K21692)

ITEM 08
Walter Lawry Waterhouse field message book, ca. 1916 (Box K21692)

ITEM 09
Walter Lawry Waterhouse souvenirs, 1916-1917 (Box K21692)

ITEM 10
Walter Lawry Waterhouse trench map, September 1916 (Box K21692)

ITEM 11
Walter Lawry Waterhouse operation orders, maps and photographs, 1916 (Box K21692)

ITEM 12
Walter Lawry Waterhouse roll book, June 1916 (Box K21692)

ITEM 13
Walter Lawry Waterhouse programme, 25 April 1917 (Box K21692)

ITEM 14
Walter Lawry Waterhouse printed material, ca. 1916 (Box K21692)