Digitised@SLQ Henry Glanville Rolls Papers

Photograph of Glanville Rolls and five friends, 19 February 1916. Rolls is top left.

In April 2014, the then Arts Minister, The Honourable Ian Walker MP donated to State Library a poem written by his Great Uncle Glanville Henry George Rolls. The poem, titled “Australia as a Nation”, has been digitised and is now available online via the One Search catalogue, along with a couple of photographs of Rolls, donated by Mr Walker's aunt.

Photograph sent from Cairo by Glanville Rolls to his sister Flo, 19 February 1916. The photograph features Glanville and his mates. Rolls is front centre.

In addition, Glanville Henry George Rolls features in one of the soldier portraits published in The Queenslander pictorial supplement.

G.H.G. Rolls in The Queenslander Pictorial supplement 1915

Newly digitised content can be found throughout this blog by looking for digitisation tags and Digitised@SLQ headings. More content is available through State Library’s catalogue One Search.

Robyn Hamilton - QANZAC100 Content Curator, State Library of Queensland