Guide to the papers of Australian National Defence League (NSW Division)

The papers of the Australian National Defence League (NSW Division) are held in the Private Records collection in the Australian War Memorial's Research Centre as collection item 2DRL/1098. They document this important lobby group's organisation, membership and activities from its creation in 1905 to its collapse in 1938. They comprise three registers of subscriptions paid by members, five volumes of minutes of meetings held, a letter book of outward letters, five folders of loose, mostly inwards correspondence and two folders of miscellaneous papers which include updated correspondence and legal documents. Prominent Australians whose correspondence forms parts of the collection include Charles Bean, Edgeworth David, Alfred Deakin, Frank Fox, Arthur Jose, William Morris Hughes, James Gordon Legge, Mungo MacCallum, Henry MacLaurin and John Christian Watson.