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Australian Comforts Fund.

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Australian Comforts Fund. (1916-1920)
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-563480

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Australian Women's Register

The Australian Comforts Fund was established in August 1916 to co-ordinate the activities of the state based patriotic funds, which were established earlier in World War I. Mainly run by women, they provided and distributed free comforts to the Australian 'fit' fighting men in all the battle zones. They became divisions of the Australian Comforts Fund. The Council of the Fund comprised two delegates from New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland and one from the states of Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. The Executive headquarters was located in Sydney. It ceased operation on 10 April 1920 and was reconstituted in World War II in June 1940 and ceased operation again on 27 June 1946.

The state bodies in World War I were: New South Wales: the 'Citizens' 'War Chest' Fund; Queensland Patriotic Fund; South Australia: League of Loyal Women; Tasmania: 'On Active Service Fund'; Australian Comforts Fund, Victorian Division; Victoria League of Western Australia.#xA; During World War II the state bodies were called : The Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund of New South Wales; the Australian Comforts Fund, Victorian Division; the Australian Comforts Fund, Queensland Division; the Australian Comforts Fund, Tasmanian Division; the Fighting Forces Comforts Fund SA Inc; the Victoria League Camp Comforts Fund ( W A )#xA; Australian Comforts Fund commissioners conducted its activities in the field, holding honorary rank as officers of the Army or Air Force.

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  1. The History of the Australian Comforts Fund: being the official record of a voluntary civilian organisation which during the Great War (1914-1919) and until the return of all the Australian troops (1920) provided and distributed free comforts to the Australian fit fighting men in all the battle zones and in other ways alleviated the distress inevitable in war
    Bowden, Samuel H
    [[1922]]
    Published: Scotow and Presswell, Sydney
  2. Proud story: the official history of the Australian Comforts Fund
    Jackson, C O Badham
    [1949]
    Published: F H Johnston Publishing Company, Sydney
  3. Australian Comforts Fund papers, 1916-1919
    [1916 - 1919]
    Contains shipping reports, January 1917- October 1918; lists of cases distributed to Australian units stationed in the United Kingdom, January 1917- November 1918; France, January 1916 - March 1917; Egypt, December 1916 - January 1919; summary statements of distributions to various Australian forces, January - June 1917; miscellaneous correspondence and reports, December 1917 - January 1919.
    1 box
    Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
    MLMSS 142

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  1. Papers
    Australian Comforts Fund
    [Unpublished : 1916-1919]
  2. Queensland Soldiers' Comforts Fund, 1915-1919
    Australian Comforts Fund. Queensland Division
    [Unpublished : 1920]
  3. Records
    Australian Comforts Fund. W.A. Division
    [Unpublished : 1939-1947]
  1. [Posters relating to the Australian...
    [Poster, chart, other : 1939-1949]
  2. Boxed draughts set issued by the Au...
    Australian Comf...
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  3. Australian Comforts Fund: don't let...
    Australian Comf...
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  4. Australian Comforts Fund Christmas ...
    Australian Comf...
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  5. 35th Battalion Comforts Fund street...
    [Photograph : 1917]
  6. [Australian Comforts Fund]
    [Photograph : 1941]
  1. AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND.
    The Sydney Morning Herald..., Tuesday 13 February 1940 p 5
    ... AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND. -«- * The Lord Mayor, of, Melbourne, Councillor Arthur W. Coles, accompanied by General Sir .Julius Bruche and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Wright, will arrive in Sydney to-day to attend 'a conference of the Federal executive of the Australian Comforts Fund._ ... 43 words
  2. AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND
    The Argus (Melbourne,..., Monday 30 October 1939 p 3
    ... AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND The nerve-racking existence of soldiers | in the trenches during the last war was considerably brightened by the many [entertainments and comforts provided by the Australian Comforts Fund, which dis- tributed thousands of pounds' worth of goods. The fund has now been ... 106 words
  3. AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND COMMISSIONERS.
    The Sydney Morning Herald..., Friday 5 April 1940 p 11
    ... AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND COMMISSIONERS. The executive of the Australian Comforts Fund has ... last war. He will act. In a voluntary capacity. Mr. Govvard, of Sydney, will act as Comforts Commissioner at headquarters in, Palestine. Mr. Gorman, K.C.. of Melbourne, will be Comforts Com- missioner ... 90 words
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