Box 4 Folders 6-8.
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Letters written to family by Frederick (Fred) William Scott Martin while Martin was serving with the Australian Imperial Force in Australia, Egypt, Gallipoli, the United Kingdom and finally the Western Front from 1915 to 1917. Martin was Anne McCosker's uncle. The letters were published by McCosker in _Lieutenant Martin's Letters_ (2013).
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Anne McCosker, _Lieutenant Martin's Letters : F.W.S. Martin, M.M. : an Anzac in the Great War_ (2013).
Box 4 Folder 6.
Published
Handwritten letters to family from Frederick (Fred) William Scott Martin during his war service in World War One. The letters in this file begin while Martin was in training in Australia and cover his service at Gallipoli and his transfer to the United Kingdom after falling ill.
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Box 4 Folder 7.
Published
Handwritten letters to family from Frederick (Fred) William Scott Martin during his war service in World War One. The correspondence in this file begins while Martin was convalescing in Weymouth and ends with postcards sent from France.
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Box 4 Folder 8.
Published
Handwritten letters to family from Frederick (Fred) William Scott Martin during his war service in World War One. The correspondence in this file begins while Martin was in the trenches at the Western Front. His final letter is dated 31 August 1917. Martin was killed in action in Belgium on 20 September 1917. The final documents in this folder are an article about Martin published in _The Humpybong Halcyon_ newspaper on 20 October 1917, a letter from the Queensland Department of Public Instruction to Martin's father, dated 6 December 1917, and a copy of a Commonwealth record detailing the actions that led to Martin being awarded the Military Medal.
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Letters are fragile and must be handled with care.
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