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 VC; 2858 Clifford William King Sadlier VC

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  2881 Pt Harry James Prince

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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, 7062 Ernest Jason Paxman

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  2146 William Samuel, 5439 George John Tracy

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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

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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

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  6428 Peter John O'Donnell

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  4886 George Rodgers

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  3003 Edwin Harcourt Maxwell

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  L S Fisher

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  4363 Gordon Leslie Young

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  361 James Patterson MacKenzie

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  8552 Charles William Cann

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

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