Item Item 1 - War Babies by 'Shap'

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UQFL626-Series C-Item 1

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War Babies by 'Shap'

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  • 1934 (Creation)

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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.

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Unrestricted access.

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  • English

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Original typescript is held at the Australian War Memorial

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Final

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Created, JH, 7-Aug-2019

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  • Box: UQFL626 Box 2