Sydney Morning Herald Memorial booklet

[19thMan]

Hello Digger Dave. Do you have or know where I could access this book?

Record of service : members of the staff of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sydney Mail who served in the Great War
[Sydney : John Fairfax & Sons, 1919?]
 I am after photos of 19th Battalion men. With Thanks

[diggerdave]

Hello Digger Dave. Do you have or know where I could access this book?

Record of service : members of the staff of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sydney Mail who served in the Great War
[Sydney : John Fairfax & Sons, 1919?]
 I am after photos of 19th Battalion men. With Thanks

Hi 19th Man
Welcome to the forum of Hunter Valley Military History.
The State Library in Sydney may have a copy.
Perhaps you can do a search on their web page or do a "google" search to locate a copy of it.
Unfortunately I do not have a copy in my archival collection.
Good hunting!

[Wombat]

Given the time it took to get all men back to Australia and the complications of the 'flu epidemic, the booklet may not have been published until late 1919-early 1920. 

The National Library of Australia is currently undertaking a project to digitise old Australian newspapers - they are scanned and 'translated' using OCR technology.  Given the varying qualities of the print, the 'translations' are a bit iffy, sometimes useless, but anyone can sign in as a guest and make corrections.

Definitely worth looking up your WW1 soldiers - injury and death reports, In Memoriams, etc. can often be found.

As far as the booklet is concerned, I did wonder if it was included as a Supplement, but haven't managed to find it yet.  I have, however, found the report of a dinner given at the Burlington for returned staff of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sydney Mail published in Sydney Morning Herald on 3 May, 1920.  This article contains a reference to the booklet - so it was obviously published prior to that date. See http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15887971?searchTerm=fairfax+served+war for the article.

I suggest you contact SMH Archives by letter or email and ask them is they can supply a copy.    In the meantime, you might like to search the NLA site yourself.

Barbara

[Wombat]

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15890251?searchTerm=fairfax+served+war+book

SMH 17 May 1920 contains report of a 'day out' at Clifton Gardens put on by Fairfax for employees who served and their families.  Report contains a reference to "..excellent little book which Mr. Percy Allen put together for the firm..."

[Wombat]

Found it!!

The Australian National Library has a copy -
Record of service : members of the staff of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sydney Mail who served in the Great War
Bib ID 486254
Printer - Sydney : Deaton & Spencer
Details: FERG/3831 Petherick Reading Room (Australian Rare or Fragile)

If you can't get to Canberra, you can ask for copies of pages, but only up to 10% of the book. Suggest you contact them and ask for more information on the person/s you are interested in.