letters from Bert
pre war
16 July 1913, Narrandera
21 July 1914, Narrandera
1914
August
16 September
25 October, SS Euripides
24 November, SS Euripides
3 December, SS Euripides
13 December, Egypt
18 December, Egypt
27 December, Egypt
1915
1 January, Egypt
8 January, Egypt
14 January, Egypt
23 January, Egypt
1 February, Egypt
7 February, Egypt
11 February, Egypt
18 February, Egypt
28 February, Egypt
11 March, Egypt
20 March, Egypt
28 March, Egypt
4 April, SS Derfflinger
20 April
At the Dardanelles
The Nurse Without a Smile
3 May, Hospital Ship
9 May
18 May, Birmingham Hospital
24 May, Birmingham Hospital
29 May, Rugby Hospital
Life in the Trenches
Four days at Anzac
24 June, Weymouth
June, Weymouth
15 July, Weymouth
7 August, Alexandria
17 August, Gaba Tepe
2 September, Anzac
3 October, London Hospital
11 October, London Hospital
October, London Hospital
November, London Hospital
16 November, Hounslow
28 November, London Hospital
4 December, London Hospital
25 December, London Hospital
1916
19 January, Harfield Hospital
10 February, Hounslow
10 March, Abbey Wood
15 March, Abbey Wood
22 March, At Sea
18 April, Egypt
19 April, Egypt
30 April, Egypt
7 May, Egypt
17 May, Eygpt
25 June, Andover
6 August, Weymouth
20 August, Weymouth
27 August, Weymouth
1 September, Perham Downs
17 September, Perham Downs
27 September, Perham Downs
18 October, Perham Downs
30 October, Perham Downs
1 November, Perham Downs
15 November, Hounslow
28 November, England
21 December, Durrington
30 December, Durrington
1917
23 January, Durrington
30 January, Durrington
11 February, Durrington
17 February, Durrington
11 March, Durrington
Bert's Diary March
21 March, France
26 March, France
28 March, France
Bert's Diary April
6 April, France
20 April, France
28 April, France
1 May, France
2 May, France
Memorial
letters from Viv
December 1915
24 February 1916, Sandville
9 June 1916, France
3 July 1916, France
26 July 1916, France
11 August 1916, France
23 August 1916, France
23 September 1916, Flanders
29 Sep & 1 Oct 1916, Flanders
8 May 1917, France
14 May 1917, France
15 May 1919, France
22 May 1919, France
3 June 1919, France
24 June 1919, Ireland
30 August 1919, At Sea
Xmas cards
Notes 1918
Letters to Viv
letters from Percy
July 1915, Re-enactment video
1915, Suez Canal
May 1916, France
11 June 1916, France
Percy's drawings
19 September 1916, France
16 December 1917, Cambridge
3 March 1918, Cambridge
Christmas cards
Percy's MC
Percy's diary
letters from Vern
14 August 1914, Narrandera
28 November 1914, Red Sea
29 November 1914, Red Sea
16 December 1914, Egypt
9 May 1915, Gallipoli
15 May 1915, Gallipoli
25 February 1916, Egypt
11 April 1917, Wandsworth
other items
Postcards from Homefolks
Daily Telegraph 1917
Two mothers
Postcards from Ireland
Various postcards
credit
These pages were prepared for the Smythe Family.
in their honour
In Their Honour is a searchable database of Australian soldiers killed in action in WWI and WWII and the location of their graves.
14 May 1917
Dear Percy,
I rode over to look Bert up the day before yesterday and was informed when I found his batt that he had been killed on 5th instant in the Hindenburg Line E of B – where we had got in and where Bert’s lot had relieved us. After several counter attacks had been beaten off, the captured position was very heavily shelled and in this shelling Bert crossed over. Death was instantaneous, so he felt no pain and knew nothing of the terror 
of approaching the brink. I am sending his few personal effects, very few, home, registered to make sure, but even now I can hardly realise the fact. It seems hard, but God’s ways are not to be read by us and we can only wait in patience the working out of His will.
He was buried in the trench where he fell. The map reference is France. Sheet 51B. SW.1/20.000. U23C 4 ¼ . 2 ½ . I am writing to Vernie, Home, Elsie & Mrs. Morgan. Will you write to Mum as soon as you get this? I cabled Clytie and she will probably get it about the same time as the official notification gets home. This note is short & may seem strange but I can’t write any more just now. God’s Will be done. In deepest sorrow & sympathy. Viv.