Summary
Newspaper cutting probably kept by Miss Elsie Storie of Brunswick, later of Canterbury, a young woman during World War I. It relates to the death of Lieutenant A.B. Cox.
Alan Birchenhall Cox was a 20-year-old salesmen from Caulfield when he enlisted to serve in World War I on 17 August 1914. His father gave permission for his enlistment. Alan had previously been a sergeant in the reserves, and became a 2nd lieutenant (promoted to lieutenant in February 1915) in the 6th Battalion, AIF - the same battalion as Elsie's cousin 'Rupe' (Lieutenant Joseph Rupert Balfe). He was killed in Gallipoli on 8 May 1915.
Part of a collection of paper-based ephemera relating to the life of Miss Elsie Storie, a middle-class Melbourne woman who was born around 1895, lived through both wars, and remained in Melbourne all her life.
Physical Description
White newspaper cutting with portrait and text.
More Information
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Collecting Areas
Images & Image Making, Home & Community, Public Life & Institutions
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Mr John Millward, Mrs Millward, 2007
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Person Depicted
Lieutenant Alan B. Cox - Australian Imperial Force (AIF), May 1915
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Previous Owner
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Inscriptions
Printed on the cutting; 'Lieutenant / A.B. Cox / 6th Batt. Australian Expe- / ditionary Force. Aged 21 / years. He was the eldest son / of Mr. T. W. J. Cox, Victorian / Government Railways, Mel- / bourne, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles with / the Colonial forces'
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions - Closed
40 mm (Width), 85 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Death & Mourning, Military History, World War I, 1914-1918, Newspapers