Personal correspondence to and from Black's family filed in chronological folders

Archive Collections / Dr Eustace Couper Black / Series AA 31/08 / Personal correspondence to and from Black's family filed in chronological folders

People, places and subjects dealt with in correspondence etc.

  1. dated 20 January 1915 'In the field' to mother and father Murat, Denial Bay, Streaky Bay, Fowlers Bay, Paris, Nice, description of trench mortar projectiles, Aunt Mattie

  2. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black marked "No 11 General Hospital Bouloyne" accompanied by letter dated 13 February 1915 to mother and father influenza, Red Cross Train, Nice, Dr Hay

  3. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black accompanied by letter dated 16 February 1915 on Hotel Ritz Paris letter head to mother and father Queen Mary's Convalescent Home for British Officers, Red Cross Society, Boloyne

  4. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black accompanied by letter dated 17 February 1915 on Hotel Ritz Paris letter head to mother and father Taube aeroplane, Smiths Bookshop, Badeker

  5. I'Hotel Metropole Monte Carlo restaurant bill dated 23 February 1915 for lunch wine and coffee

  6. OHMS envelope addressed J Black accompanied by War Office letterhead dated 25 February 1915 providing notice of EC Black's illness

  7. Bruxelles & Madrid Palace Hotel bill dated 6 March 1915 for dinner; accompanied by "Republique Francaise Laissez-Passer" for Eustace Black Nice Grand Hotel dated 20 March 1915

  8. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black censor date 2 January 1915

  9. To Black dated 30 March 1915 from father Clara, Nice, Flanders, Gladstone, George, Illustrated London News, Monte Carlo

  10. To Black dated 7 April 1915 from father Taube aeroplane, Miss Marston, Melbourne to Cairns, Marbo, Clara's wedding, Rev. Jose, Arnold, Broken Hill, George

  11. To Black dated 3 May 1915 from Barbara Vooglit of Wallington

  12. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black marked "July 1915" accompanied by a letter dated 2 July 1915 to mother and father Bank of Australasia, Holt & Co, sending postcards

  13. dated 9 October 1915 to mother and father Dardanells, Sir William Ramsay Smith, No 33 Casualty Clearing Station, Mary, Malvern, Mrs Rosman, Sally Black, Wigtown

  14. Dated 13 October 1915 to mother and father revolver canon, Zeiss field glasses, No 6 Field Ambulance

  15. Dated 22 October 1915 to mother and father description of French Commanders dugout, Nurse Bell, Ramsay Smith, Nottingham Hospital, Dr Napier, Flanders

  16. dated 31 October 1915 to mother and father fury shrapnell, Serbia, Arnold, George

  17. dated 12 November 1915 to mother and father marked "send this back to me when you have read it Eus" Serbia, Hamilton Smeaton, Childrens Hospital, Sally Black, John Black, Dardanells, Mary Rosman

  18. dated 4 December 1915 to mother and father Karoonda, Pinaroo, Flanders, Melrose, Boolooroo, Port Pirie, Serbia

  19. dated 18 December 1915 to mother and father General Haig, British Expeditionary Force, France, General French, Clara, Helen Black, Sally Black, 5th Royal Scotts, John Black, Barbara Thomas

  20. dated 31 December 1915 to mother and father Clara, Arnold

  21. To Black dated 22 November 1915 from father Eyre Peninsula, SS Wandana, Battle of Loos, Illustrated London News, SS Rupar, SS Paringa, SS Investigator, SS Ferret, Cummins, Yeelanna, Murrat Bay, Cape Thevenard, Mary Rosman, George. Accompanied by a sepia photograph of a man with pipe and hat

  22. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black marked "Eus engagement September 1916" accompanied by undated from Betty Ales, Leeton, Taronga Park Zoo

  23. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black marked "Parts of letters returned from George" accompanied by pages 5-6 of an undated letter from Black, Geraldton, Perth, flour, Fremantle, Java, Singapore, SS Orestes, SS Minderow, SS Gascoyne, Alfred Holb & Co, Clara, Derby, MV Centaur

  24. dated 22 January 1916 to mother and father George Reid, Sincock, Ayliffe, Anne Hurftes, Arnold, London, Wigtown, George

  25. dated 3 February 1916 on Strand Palace Hotel letterhead to mother and father Bloomsbury House Club, zeppelin

  26. dated 22 February 1916 No 6 General Hospital Rouen to mother and father Colonel Norris

  27. dated 27 February 1916 No 6 General Hospital Rouen to mother and father Arnold, George, Holt & Co, Boulogne, Gurkha, Carry, Dr Cudmore, Colonel Norris, Colonel Blinkinsop, Hampstead General Hospital, Dr Sinclair, Serbia, Chief Justice Way, Uncle Charlie, Arnold

  28. dated 25 March 1916 No 6 General Hospital Rouen to mother and father Lieutenant EC Black, Aunt Jessie, Clara, Port Elliott, the Railway Hotel, Arnold, Dr Hayward, Dr Hay, Rotorua, Uncle Alfred, xray, stovaine, omnopon-acopalamire, trepined

  29. dated 13 April 1916 No 6 General Hospital Rouen to mother and father Aunt Jessie, Nell Watson, Prof. Archibald Watson

  30. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black post marked 12 May 1916

  31. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black post marked 20 May 1916 accompanied by letter from Black dated 5 May 1916 to mother and father George, 112th Field Ambulance, No 111 Field Ambulance, Sam Corry, gas attack

  32. dated 11 May 1916 to mother and father Dr Corry, 9th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Oodnadatta, Arnold, Helen Black, Aunt Jessie

  33. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black post marked 5 May 1916 accompanied by a messing account for the period 21/2 to 29/2/1916

  34. dated 19 May 1916 to mother and father Arnold, Dulcie, Egypt, Salonica, France, Uncle Alfred, Helen Black, Sally Black, Wigtown, John Black Machine Gun Corps

CreatorDr Eustace Couper Black
ControlAA 31/8/6
Date Range1915  -  1916
FormatsGeneral Correspondence
Series AA 31/08