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Harold Sutton Shapcott Papers World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Australian
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My life in the Army

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'.

Harold Sutton Shapcott Papers

  • UQFL626
  • Collection
  • 1914-1978

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.

Shapcott, Harold Sutton, 1898-1972