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Diary entries - Page numbers
Enlists at West Maitland 8th December 1915 - 2
Voyage Sydney to England 9th May to 23rd June - 2 to 14
In camp in England, training & leave to 21st November - 15 to 19
Left for France 21st November - 19
Arrive Armentiers 27th November 1916 - 20
Saw action---- one shell - 21
Wounded in arm 10th March; in hospital - 24
Two weeks furlough; camp in south England - 26
Rejoined battalion 26th August - 28
To Ypres 26th Sept - 29
Saw action; expresses horror at British treatment of dead - 30, 31
Passchendale, many casualties - 33
German offensive started 21st March - 37
Battalion into line 4th April -
Palmer gassed 17th April; to US General Hospital 19th April - 38
Palmer to convalescent hospital England; camp
Australia House, London opened 3rd August -
Armistice celebrations till 23rd November -
CO announced return to Australia of 2nd and 3rd Divs. 16th December - 44
Sailed from Liverpool 9th January 1919 - 45
Arrived Sydney 25th Feb - 53
Troops complain of conditions of camp at Quarantine Station, North Head - 54
Farewell to AIF - 56
Full marching order kit for AIF - 58
Lists of distances - 59
Lists of places called at - 60
Mess orderly's accounts - 61
Les Darcy's bouts - 64, 65
Anzac Day - 67]
No 866
Pte J A Palmer
34th Battn
A I. F