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Manuscript Name | Papers of J A Letts |
Manuscript Number | MSS 337 |
Last Updated | July 2021 |
Extent | 3 boxes |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Material relating to the Home Guard in the Second World War along with sporting publications, collected by J A Letts |
Military
Field service pocketbooks, memoranda, and volumes relating to the Home Guard (Australian Volunteer Defence Corps) in the Second World War collected by J A Letts, including small arms training pamphlets. The collection also includes sporting publications such as rare cricket magazines from England and Australia, particularly post-1945 tours to Australia, an album with cards depicting famous players, Australian football (VFL) and horse racing guides, and Australian National University Cricket Club newsletters
1920-1987 (bulk 1937-1944)
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This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
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Papers of J A Letts, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 337, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
Gifted by J A Letts’ grandson Sub-Lieutenant Michael Letts, RAN in 1996
J A Letts — Archives
Australian sport — 20th century
Australian cricket — 20th century
Australia. Army. Volunteer Defence Corps – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
J A Letts
Australia. Army. Volunteer Defence Corps
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 1
Field Service Pocket Book: Orders and Intercommunication. Pamphlet no. 2, 1939
Folder 2
Field Service Pocket Book: Intelligence – Information and Security. Pamphlet no. 3, 1939
Folder 3
Field Service Pocket Book: Field Engineering. Pamphlet no. 4, 1939
Folder 4
Field Service Pocket Book: Mechanized Movement by Road. Pamphlet no. 6, 1941
Folder 5
Field Service Pocket Book: Protection Against Gas. Pamphlet no. 8, 1941
Folder 6
Field Service Pocket Book: Supply and Replenishment of Material in the Field. Pamphlet no. 9, 1939
Folder 7
Field Service Pocket Book: Discipline, Office Work and Burial Parties. Pamphlet no. 11, 1939
Folder 8
Field Service Pocket Book: Identification of Bodies, Burials, Graves Registration, Disposal of Effects, Burial of Enemy Dead. Pamphlet no. 11a, Australian Edition, 1942
Folder 9
Small Arms Training: Weapon Training. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 1, 1937. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office
Folder 10
Small Arms Training: Application of Fire. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 2, 1937. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office
Folder 11
Small Arms Training: Application of Fire. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 2 (reprinted with amendments), 1937. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office
Folder 12
Small Arms Training: .303-inch Machine Gun, part 1 – Mechanical Subjects. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 7, 1939. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office
Folder 13
Small Arms Training: .303-inch Machine Gun, part 2a – Training, Infantry (Limber) and Horsed Cavalry. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 7, 1939
Folder 14
Small Arms Training: .303-inch Machine Gun, part 3 – Fire Control. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 7, 1939.
Folder 15
Small Arms Training: .303-inch Machine Gun Supplement. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 7, part 1, 1940
Folder 16
Small Arms Training: Bayonet. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 12 1937
Folder 17
Small Arms Training: Annual Range Courses. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 14 1939
Folder 18
Small Arms Training: Sub-Machine Guns. Volume 1, Pamphlet no. 15, 1943
Folder 19
Operations: Notes on Extensive Warfare. Military Training Pamphlet no. 23, Australian Addendum No. 1, March 1941
Folder 20
Operations Part II – Defence. Military Training Pamphlet no. 23, 1939
Folder 21
Operations Part III – Appreciations, Orders, Intercommunication and Movements. Military Training Pamphlet no. 23, 1939
Folder 22
Infantry Training (Training and War). 1937
Folder 23
Infantry Training (Training and War). 1937 (second copy)
Folder 24
Infantry Minor Tactics. 1941
Folder 25
Coast Artillery Drills: Gun Drills – General. Part III, Pamphlet No. 1, 1940
Folder 26
Coast Artillery Training. Vol. 1, 1938
Folder 27
Coast Artillery Training. Vol. 3
Folder 28
Small Arms Training. Vol. 2, 1931 (Modified Edition, 1938)
Folder 29
Small Arms Training. Vol. 4 (Australia), 1934
Folder 30
Advanced Training for the Home Guard: With Ten Specimen Field Exercises by John Brophy
Folder 31
Elementary Drill for the Home Guard
Folder 32
Notes on the Administration of Discipline on War Service. 1 May 1943
Folder 33
Infantry Section Leading. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1938
Folder 34
Range Table for .303-inch Vickers Machine Gun. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1937
Folder 35
The Vickers Gun Simplified: Pocket Book and Illustrated Guide. Published by Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne
Folder 36
Handbook for .303 Inch Vickers Machine Gun: based on Official Text Books, by Major C.B. Davidson, M.C. Published by Westbury Traders Pty. Ltd., Sydney, 1941 (revised edition)
Folder 37
Owen Gun: Instruction Book. May 1942
Folder 38
Australian Defence Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 1, January 1942
Folder 39
Australian Defence Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 2, November 1942
Folder 40
Australian Defence Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 3, December 1942
Folder 41
Australian Defence Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 4, January 1943
Folder 42
Australian Defence Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 4, January 1943 (duplicate copy).
Folder 43
Australian Defence Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 5, May 1943.
Folder 44
Australian Defence Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 5, May 1943 (duplicate copy)
Folder 45
Australian Defence Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 6, August 1943
Folder 46
Australian Military Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Manual. 1941
Folder 47
Australian Military Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Manual – Field Works. Pamphlet no. 7, 1941
Folder 48
Australian Military Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Manual – Grenade Training. Pamphlet no. 13, 1943
Folder 49
Volunteer Defence Corps Manual – Protection Against Gas. Pamphlet no. 14, 1941
Folder 50
Notes on Concealment and Camouflage. Military Training Pamphlet no. 26, 1939
Folder 51
Training in Fieldcraft and Elementary Tactics. Military Training Pamphlet no. 33, 1940
Folder 52
The Training of an Infantry Battalion. Military Training Pamphlet no. 37, 1940
Folder 53
The Infantry (Rifle) Battalion: Part II – The Carrier Platoon. Military Training Pamphlet no. 39, 1941
Folder 54
The Infantry (Rifle) Battalion: Part II – The Carrier Platoon. Military Training Pamphlet no. 39, 1941 (duplicate copy)
Folder 55
Rescue of Crews from Crashed Aircraft. Civil Defence Leaflet no. 4
Folder 56
Australian Military Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 7, 1944
Folder 57
Australian Military Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 8, 1944
Folder 58
Australian Military Forces: Volunteer Defence Corps Training Memorandum (War) Australia. No. 9, 1944
Folder 59
Australian Military Forces: Standing Orders for Volunteer Defence Corps. 1942
Folder 60
Handbook of Artillery Instruments and Range-Finders: Part 1 (Section 14: Calculator, Ballistic Correction, no. 1, Mark 1). 1933
Folder 61
Owen Gun: Illustrations Showing the Use of the Sling. May 1942
Folder 62
Notes on the Laws and Usages of War: For the Guidance of Soldiers. 1941