Carbon copy typescript of a fictionalised account based on personal experience by Harold Sutton Shapcott, father of Queensland writer Thomas Shapcott, who published it in 1978. It was entered into the RSSILA centenary war novel competition and includes accounts of action at Warneton, Zonnebeke, Hamel, on the Somme in August 1918 and during attack on the Hindenburg Line. Also includes periods of hospitalisation in France and leave in England. Another copy of this typescript of 1934 is held at the Australian War Memorial.

A short account of an Australian's first experience of England, which 'was not exactly what you could call pleasant'. Two identical versions, 7 and 8 leaves respectively. One copy signed 'Sig', the other Harold S Shapcott.

As short account of life in the Australian army in WWI in response to a London 'Evening News' newspaper competition offering 100 Guineas for the 'best article'.

Box 1
Folders 1 - 4: 118 letters by Harold Shapcott to his family, written while on active service in World War I, 1915 - 1919
Folder 5: Typed transcript of letters in folder 1 - 4
Folder 6: 7 letters to Harold Shapcott from his family, 1916 - 1919.
Folders 7 - 10: 45 letters and 35 greeting cards from friends to Harold Shapcott, 1917 - 1922; 1929.

Box 2
Folder 1: 4 letters from Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, 1919 - 1921.
Folder 2: 12 letters from the 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee, 1927 - 1943.
Folder 3: 17 items of correspondence relating to War Pension, 1936 - 1972.
Folder 4: 1 letter from Lloyd Hodge relating to 'War Babies', 15 April 1959.
Folder 5: 15 items of correspondence relating to 'Overseas trip', including earlier letters from France, 1919 - 1964.
Folder 6: 12 items of correspondence, including in relation to memberships and motor vehicles, 1938 - 1967.

Eight war service diaries, 1915 - 1919. Includes the diary of a German soldier with Shapcott's note at front: 'Captured... near Ypres'.

3 semi-autobiographical memoirs, primarily based on service in World War I.

1. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Christmas and New Year Greeting Cards, 1922 – 1940 [with gaps]
2. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Re-Union Dinner Menus and Programs, 1920 – 1948 [with gaps], and 1969 [together with a group of napkins presumably from the dinners]
3. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Flyers, including a flyer advertising the battalion history published in 1938
4. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Social and Dance Admission Ticket, 25 May 1922
5. Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia. Commemorative Programs, Ipswich Branch, ca. 1920 – 1923
6. ANZAC Day Commemoration Service. Programs, Ipswich, 1920 - 1924
7. ANZAC Day Commemoration Service. Program, Brisbane, 1916 and 1921
8. Australian Imperial Force Church Parade at The Minster, Warminster, Hymn Sheet, 30 December 1917
9. Other WWI commemorative ephemera, 1920s
10. Album of cigarette cards
11. Album of cigarette cards
12. Album of cigarette cards
13. The Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Forces Assemblage at and Departure from Albany, 1915
14. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. The Old Batt Magazine, Vol. 1. No. 2 (Dec 1926) and 3 (May 1927)
15. 42nd Battalion AIF Association. News. 1 May 1941 – July 1944
16. The Safety Pin. Magazine, no. 2. October 1917
17. Coo-ee. The Journal of the Bishops Knoll Hospital, Bristol Vol 1 no.1

Box 4
Four albums of largely unused postcards collected during World War I. Also includes postcards addressed to Eric Shapcott, Harold Shapcott's younger brother who died in a shooting accident at Glasshouse Mountains in 1918.
Album 1
96 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Tenerife, Perth (W.A.) as well as a few comical cards
Album 2
108 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in France.
Album 3
96 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in the United Kingdom.
Album 4
180 postcards, some used, in an old album. Includes mostly greeting cards, but also 52 views of Australian towns and cities.

These papers are comprised of correspondence, diaries, battalion association ephemera, typescript memoirs and postcards.
The correspondence consists of Harold Shapcott's family correspondence, including while on active service in World War I (1915 - 1919), correspondence with Returned Soldiers and Battalion Re-Union commitees, 1919 - 1943, as well as other personal correspondence received between 1919 and 1972.
There are also eight war service diaries kept between 1915 and 1919, three semi-autobiographical typescript memoirs, 17 group of ephemeral publications relating to service in World War I and battalion re-unions, as well as a collection of unused postcards.