Portion of Chapter 1 of a projected autobiography. Story of author's enlistment in army at outset of World War 1. Chapter sent to Cecil Hadgraft with covering letter (1 leaf ) by W. Carew, 1967 March 1, Sydney.

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.

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.

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.

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'.