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Second World War Small Notebook used by Sapper Kingsley Charles MOHR WX26433

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Sapper K. C. MOHR WX26433

1942

Overview

A small brown notebook with a worn cover and a red cloth spine consisting of pages with ruled (blue) lines and notes, diagrams, tables and poems written in pencil. Topics range from war gases to the maintenance of vehicles, demolition and types of explosives, camouflage and water. At the end of the book MOHR recorded the number of his rifle, bayonet and tin hat, along with the scoring details for the card game ‘500’ and a ‘rubbing’ of a New Zealand coin.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2023.14.13

Item type

Books

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 2

Material

Cardboard

Paper

Pencil

Width

105 mm

Height or length

160 mm

Depth

10 mm

Weight

97 g

Inscriptions and markings

Inside cover “14-1-1942 / W38599 / Spr. Mohr. K. C. / 56th Field Park Coy”

Contextual information

Sapper Kingsley Charles MOHR WX 28599 was born in Northam on 29 August 1909 and was a farm labourer in Koorda, Western Australia, before enlisting at Guildford on 9 August 1941. A Sapper in the Australian Mechanical Equipment Company he spent 1495 days on Active Service in Australia and 625 days on Overseas Service from September 1943 – August 1944 and 10 March – 6 December 1945 before being discharged at Karrakatta on 24 January 1946. MOHR had lived in Denmark Western Australia before enlisting and returned there after the war. The notebook is one of many items collected by MOHR from the First and Second World Wars.

Keywords

Second World War

Notebook

Place made

Australia

Year

1942

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