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Box-folder YMS MS 15488 BOX 5/3

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Report on the Battle of Fromelles, 1916

 Item — box-folder: YMS MS 15488 BOX 5/3
Scope and contents

Report is unsigned and undated. It describes the activities of the 5th Australian Dvision at the Battle of Fromelles, 19-20 July 1916. It includes references to the 54th Battalion commanded by Walter Cass.

Dates: 1916
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / YMS 15488, Papers of Walter and Helena Cass / Series 2: Military papers, Brigadier Walter Cass

Speech delivered on Anzac Day, [between 1916 and 1931]

 Item — box-folder: YMS MS 15488 BOX 5/3
Scope and contents

Typescript with manuscript annotations possibly by Walter Cass. Addressed to 'Mr Mayor, ladies and gentlemen', unsigned and incomplete. It describes the actions of the 9th Battalion, composed of Queenslanders, at the Anzac Landing on 25 April 1915.

Dates: [between 1916 and 1931]
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / YMS 15488, Papers of Walter and Helena Cass / Series 2: Military papers, Brigadier Walter Cass

Notes on the Battle of Fromelles, 1916

 Item — box-folder: YMS MS 15488 BOX 5/3
Scope and contents

Typescript with minor manuscript amendments, unsigned and undated, but probably written by Walter Cass. Brief account of the activities of the 5th Australian Division leading up to and during the Battle of Fromelles, 1-19 July 1916.

Dates: 1916
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / YMS 15488, Papers of Walter and Helena Cass / Series 2: Military papers, Brigadier Walter Cass

Speech written for the unveiling of an honour roll, [between 1919 and 1931]

 Item — box-folder: YMS MS 15488 BOX 5/3
Scope and contents

Typescript with manuscript annotations by Walter Cass, undated. The speech indicates that the honour roll contained over 170 names of men from a rural district with which Cass had been associated. The district is not identified.

Dates: [between 1919 and 1931]
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / YMS 15488, Papers of Walter and Helena Cass / Series 2: Military papers, Brigadier Walter Cass

Notes about the Sugar Loaf salient at Fromelles, 1916

 Item — box-folder: YMS MS 15488 BOX 5/3
Scope and contents

Refers briefly to machine gun fire from Sugar Loaf, the failure of the British 61st Division and the activities of the Australian 59th, 60th, 53rd, 54th, 31st and 32nd Battalions.

Dates: 1916
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / YMS 15488, Papers of Walter and Helena Cass / Series 2: Military papers, Brigadier Walter Cass