Black Boy Hill to Dickiebusch and Guns on the Western Front

Summary

Typescript memoir, written by Westley Bellingham Maley. He relates his experiences during his World War I service. "To my dear nephew James Addison Harwood from Uncle West" is written in pen on the first page. The memoir is written in two parts, part one: "Black Boy Hill to Dickiebusch" and part two: "Guns on the Western Front". The x-rays show a piece of shrapnel which pierced the diaphragm and lodged in Maley's chest. The postcard is of the hospital ship "Wandilla". Maley has written in pencil on it, describing his trip from Bristol to Alexandria, where he was transferred to the General Hospital. From there he continued from Suez to Fremantle on the Australian hospital ship Koroola.