• Title
  William Ambrose Cull letter diary, 1915-1918
• Creator
  W. Ambrose (William Ambrose) Cull
• Call number
  MLMSS 1165
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1915-1918
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  422279
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  0.05 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William Ambrose Cull, an apprentice coachbuilder of Hamilton, Victoria was born in Normanby, Victoria and enlisted in Melbourne aged 20 on 7 May 1915. He embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT A14 Euripides, 10 May 1915 and served with 22nd and 23rd Battalions, 6th Infantry Brigade. He was wounded at Gallipoli, 6 Nov. 1915, recovering in Malta before dispatch to the Western Front. He was severely wounded 26 Feb. 1917, and was prisoner of war in Germany before transfer to Switzerland in 1918. He returned to Australia on Dunluce Castle, Apr. 1918, permanently disabled and wrote a memoir, 'At all costs' which was republished in 2011 in an edited form as 'Both sides of the wire'. He was active in recruitment, a representative of the Repatriation Commission Board and the RSL executive and later became managing editor of the Shepparton Advertiser until ill health forced his retirement. He died 29 July 1939, aged 45.
• Scope and Content
  Letters written by Captain William Ambrose Cull to his parents, with sketch maps. Includes description of the voyage on S.S. Euripides, 1915, action at Gallipoli, 1915 and in France, 1916-1917, where he was severely wounded and treatment in hospitals in Belgium and Germany as a prisoner of war
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: May be copied for reference and publication
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2013/D04282/a2910.htm
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
  Microfilm : CY 4645, frames 1 - 504
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1014664
  At all costs / by W. Ambrose Cull - http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b3060207
  Both sides of the wire : the memoir of an Australian officer captured during the great war / William Cull edited by Aaron Pegram - http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b3613436
• Name
  Cull, W. Ambrose (William Ambrose)
  Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921). Infantry Battalion, 23rd
  Dunluce Castle (ship)
  
• Subject
  Euripides (Troopship).
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
  Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
  Soldiers--Australia.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Life Interrupted: Personal Diaries from World War I - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 21 September, 2014)
• Open Rosetta viewer
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