Arthur Parkin Autograph Album

Original items held by the Army Museum of Western Australia

Arthur John Harold Parkin

Conflict	World War 1
Service Arm	Civilian support service
Unit	No 8 General Hospital
Service No.
Service Arm	Army
Date of Birth	31 Jan 1872
Date of Death	19 Oct 1953
Relatives

Arthur Parkin volunteered at No 8 General Hospital in Fremantle from 1915 to 1920, transporting convalescing soldiers on tours around Western Australia to lift their spirits, and often taking them to their home districts. Meals were sometimes prepared by the residents of the towns they visited in a show of community support for the soldiers.
No 8 General Hospital opened on the 19th July 1915 to treat those young men who required medical care while they were in training prior to embarkation and to treat those who returned to Australia on medical grounds and needed further treatment.
Arthur Parkin did not serve in the Army himself but when he stopped volunteering at the Hospital in 1919, many of the soldiers who had enjoyed his tours signed this autograph book. Some added photos of themselves on one of the tours, some drew sketches, others showed their appreciation in words. Some of the many newspaper reports of the tours are also glued into the album.

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  Motor Tours For Wounded Soldiers; 'The West Australian'; Sat 24 Feb 1917

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  422 Lawrence McCarthy, 16th Battalion; 2858 Clifford William King Sadlier, Medical Corps

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  2881 Pt Harry James Prince, 39th Battalion

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  5766 William Sydney Owen, 16th Battalion

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  2140 Lt James Edward Wilson, 6th Baty AFA; 2894 Alfred Richard Debnam, 51st Battalion

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  2428 Pt Arthur O'Brien, 43rd Battalion

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  776, Sgt Robert Hawes, 16th Battalion

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  Capt Austell Stirling Isaac, 28th Battalion; 2466 Harry Whitford, 11th Battalion

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  961 Stanley Reynolds, 12th Battalion

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  3538 Reginald Hockey, 51st Battalion

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  4253 Sydney Hammond White, 16th Battalion

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  3657 Henry Caulfield Waddell, 13th Light Trench Mortar Btty; 7062 Ernest Jason Paxman, 16th Battalion

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  2146 William Samuel, 44th Battalion; 5439 George John Tracy, 1st AMC Convalescent Depot

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  1380 Petty Officer Raymond Charles Anderson (Wireless) RAN

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  2120 Cpl Jesse Little, 44th Battalion

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  2201 Spr Alfred N Hubble, 10th Light Horse

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  5692 Pte Reuben James Comery, 16th Battalion

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  2886 William Vincent Quealy, 39th Battalion; 596 James Bodinner, 28th Battalion

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  466 Cpl George Albert Cork, 16th Battalion

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  866 Frederick Simon Cecil Brown, 11th Battalion

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  229 James Seabrook Everett, 44th Battalion

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  7057 James Hartell Purser, 16th Battalion

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  4407 Alexander Draper, 28th Battalion

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  2718 Leslie William Moon, 48th Battalion

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  4267 Harry Eppey, 48th Battalion; 1038 Donald Keir Robertson, 32nd Battalion

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  17442 Edward Healy Smith, 13th Field Ambulance

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  62805 Jules Flesfadar, Solo Cornet, 5th Army District Reserve Band

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  Arthur Charles Hendrie, Soprano Cornet, Army Reserve Band

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  1006 William Henry Tucker, 28th Battalion Band

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  7325 James Richard Murray, 51st Battalion

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  57551 George Morris Rapp, 3rd Light Horse

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  6428 Peter John O'Donnell, 28th Battalion

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  4886 George Rodgers, 28th Battalion

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  3003 Edwin Harcourt Maxwell, 51st Battalion

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  L S Fisher, 11th Battalion

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  4363 Gordon Leslie Young, 48th Battalion

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  361 James Patterson MacKenzie, 48th Battalion

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  8552 Charles William Cann, 5th Field Artillery Brigade

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  626 Roderic Henry Hornsby, 16th Battalion; 2150 Albert Foley, 28th Battalion

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  6144 John Paterson Henderson, 15th Field Company Engineers

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  7024 Stuart Killick Hother, 16th Battalion; C Benney, 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance

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  5002 Thomas Cunningham, Tunnelling Company 6

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  1023, 7457 Frederick James De Lury, 11th Battalion, 28th Battalion

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  4869 Stanley Parker, 11th Battalion; 3072 Ernest Joseph Jones, 11th Battalion

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  2245 John Aubrey Smith, 51st Battalion

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  7040 Hans Lawson, 16th Battalion

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  28 William James Atkinson, 10th Light Horse

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  3112 Walter James Palmer, 44th Battalion

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  2926 John Felix Russell, 48th Battalion

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  1773 James Roy Braidwood, 3rd Field Artillery

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  22257 Claude Henry Nicholas, 14th Field Company Engineers

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  6499 Frederick John Cox, 11th Battalion; 757 William Pratt, 28th Battalion

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  94 Thomas Linto, 10th Light Horse; 1785 Ewan Tate, 10th Light Horse

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  8596 Arthur John Carrier, 5th Field Artillery

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  1525 Herbert George Clear, 11th Battalion; 647 James Henry Wiseman, 10th Light Horse

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  3108 Forrest Samuel Rose, 3rd Pioneer Battalion

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  15980 Louis Frank Stanley, 14th Field Ambulance

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  1628 William Maxwell, 32nd Battalion; 2571 Duncan Brice Black, 11th Battalion

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  2208 Edmund Rawnsley, 4th Pioneer Battalion; 2651 Gordon Young, 43rd Battalion; 2735 Frederick Semken, 51st Battalion

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  Joseph Francis Quilty, 28th Battalion

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  2221 John Charles Scarlett, 11th Battalion

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  3137 Ernest Hubert Colk, 48th Battalion

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  388 George Potter, 11th Battalion

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  36164 James Cunningham, 14th Field Artillery; 5467 Harry Wallis, 16th Battalion

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  2565 James Taylor, 10th Light Horse

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  360 William Stanfield, 1st Pioneer Battalion; 871 William Cowan, 1st Pioneer Battalion

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  5971 Norman Dedrick Stehn, 16th Battalion

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  279 William Clements, 4th Machine Gun Battalion; 2766 Charles Humphrey, 39th Battalion

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The following photos, postcards, newspaper clippings and tour memorabilia were also tucked inside the autograph book.

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