Garling’s final letter home, dated seven days before his death, has been annotated by his parents as ‘his last letter’.

Following the letter are the bright pink telegrams that were sent to notify the family of the death of a soldier.

The Reverend Wilcoxson from the Greenwich Anglican church in Sydney was sent this urgent pink telegram requesting that he notify Mrs Garling. A visit from the local clergy was a common method of notifying next of kin of the death of a family member in the war.

After Garling’s death, his parents collected the letters he wrote home during the war and bound them together into a memorial.

Garling was buried at Warloy-Baillon cemetery in France.