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Letter from King George V. [PRG 1710/1/8] • Manuscript

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Summary

Letter from the King, thanking troops for their services, devotion and courage during the War.

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Physical description

Electronic files (images)
1 file, TIFF, 42.3 MB.

Dates / Publication details

1919

Creator

Cole (Family

Subject

Cole, Maynard Johnson, 1898-1952
World War, 1914-1918 -- South Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian.
Soldiers -- South Australia.

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General notes

See also PRG 1710/1/1 and PRG 1710/1/2 for diaries of Maynard Cole from 1918.

See also B 73349/1-89 for photographs collected by Maynard Cole relating to his World War I service.

Historical information

No. 36946 Private Maynard Johnson Cole, son of William James Cooper Cole (1858-1938) and Alice Esther nee Johnson (1858-1915) of Laura, South Australia. He worked as a clerk with the Traffic Audit Office, Adelaide, before he enlisted with the AIF on 4 September 1917, aged 19. He served with the Army Medical Corps, and was later transferred to the 50th Battalion. He embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board the HMAT A36 'Boonah' on 29 October 1918, and returned to Australia on 12 July 1919. He married Kathleen Mary Hall (died 1944) in 1922, and later remarried, to Mavis Jean Cole, with whom he had a daughter, Susan. He died on 14 December 1952.

Digitisation information

Date

24/05/2017

Format

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Resolution

3,119 x 4,747 pixels (14.8 MP)

Size

44.44 MB

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