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. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black post marked 22 August 1916 accompanied by letter dated 1 June 1916 to mother and father First Army Rescue School, Dr Logan, Proto, Salvus, camonflets, 6 o'clock closing in Adelaide, Scala Theatre, Harry Tutes, Tug Griffihs, Koscisko, L Bruck

  2. dated 3 June 1916 to mother and father George, 251-254 Tunnelling Company, Jack Norton, Arnold

  3. Dated 22 September 1916 on Maiden Hotel Watford letterhead to mother and father FA Cliff, Sam Corry, Bessie Cooper, Barrow-on-Finess, Nurse Julia, Wigtown

  4. dated 30 September 1916 to mother and father proposed marriage to Julia Dixon, Kings College Hospital, Mrs Dixon nee Sutherland, Mount Lofty, Mrs Rosman


  5. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black marked "Return travel in Orontes 19?" accompanied by letter to mother and father 13 January 1916 HMT Orontes, Durban, 26 doctors on board, Clara, Julia Dixon, Dr Shattuck, Deaflinger, Sister Menhennet, Vest Pocket Kodak camera, Calter, silver leaves, Nelsons History of the War by John Buchan

  6. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black accompanied by letter dated 16 January 1916 to mother and father Arnold George

  7. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black accompanied by letter dated 6 August 1916 to mother and father postcards

  8. dated 2 September 1916 to mother and father leaves off some bushes around here

  9. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black marked "Last letter from France Sept 8 1916" accompanied by a sepia postcard photograph of two unidentified soldiers and a letter dated 8 September 1916 to mother and father Mrs Cooper, Sam Corry, Gurkha, description of sick parade, photograph of two orderlies at 254 Coy (see entry 2 above)

  10. unmarked envelope containing two long slim green/grey leaves and 6 roundish brown leaves with prominent veins

  11. dated 8 December 1916 to mother and father HMT Orontes, George, Arnold, Dulcie, Port Wilungs, Cape Jervis, Mt Gambier

  12. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black marked "Trip out SA"? Accompanied by letter on HMT Orontes letterhead dated 20 October 1916 to mother and father Sam Corry

  13. dated 24 October 1916 on HMT Orontes to mother and father Devanport, Commander Symons

  14. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black marked "America"

  15. dated 24 October 1916 on HMT Orontes to mother and father departing via America

  16. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black post marked 28 December 1926 dated 23 December 1916 Murray Bridge, Arnold

  17. on HMT Orontes letterhead dated 28 December 1916 to mother and father Fremantle, Sam Corry, MV Port Victor, Dr Tassie, Dr Cockburn, Dr Bremnait, Winton, Sister Menhennet, 1856 - 1924)

  18. on HMT Orontes letterhead dated 28 December 1916 to mother and father

  19. dated 26 January (? June) 1917 to mother and father 251-254 Tunnelling Company

  20. on HMT Orontes letterhead dated 1 February 1917 Welsh steaming coal, Cape Town, SS Orsova, Ellis Hargrave, phthisis

  21. envelope addressed Mrs JM Black accompanied by letter dated 19 February 1917 Plymouth, mumps, Tilbury, Gravesend, Siera Leone, Broken Hill debentures

  22. dated 21 February 1917 to mother and father mumps recovery, Tilbury

  23. note paper marked "Letter re wedding etc April 1917 re cake"

  24. dated 16 May 1917 HMT Anglo-Egyptian to mother and father SS Orontes, continued on YHMA letterhead

  25. dated 24 May 1917 on YMCA letterhead to mother and father

  26. dated 9 June 1917 to mother and father filed teeth, tattoos, Guniea worm, dysentry

  27. dated 28 July 1917 dysentry, Obulali (Hospital assistant), Nigeria, German African prisoners of war, Siera Leone, Cape Town, Durban, chiggers, Barbara Thomas, West Africian Field Ambulance

CreatorDr Eustace Couper Black
ControlAA 31/8/7
Date Range1916  -  1917
FormatsGeneral Correspondence
Series AA 31/08