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BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF WAR-DIARY.
O.L.S. HOLT.
32 Boyce St.,
GLEBE.
DIARY No.1. 1915
June 14th. to July 27th : Camp at Enoggera
July 27th to Aug.31st. Sydney to Suez – S.S.Suffolk.
3rd Sept. et seq.: Description of natives.
Cairo and Alexandria.
16th " to 19th Voyage to Mudros.
26th " Anzac. to 4th Dec. (N.B. snow and blizzards: 28th Nov.)
DIARY No.2. 1916
Description of native feeling in Egypt.
30th. Jan. to 23rd . June: Maadi. Prisoners-of-War camp.
7th March: Turkish prisoners plotting.
Interview with Jaffa Pasha (brother of Enver Bey)
9th March: Pyramids.
25th April: Memorial service at Anzac Hostel—Cairo.
8th June: Sidelights on Turkish methods in Syria.
24th June: Tel-el-Kebir.
2nd to 8th Aug.: Alexandria to Marseilles per S.S. Franconia.
End of diary: Notes on the landing; sketch map of Anzac and sketch
DIARY No.3 1916-1917
24th Aug. to 23rd. March: Salisbury Plains and Weymouth.
DIARY No. 4 1917
27th March to 25th. Aug. England – Parkhouse, Fovant, and Wareham.
DIARY No. 5 1917
26th Sept. to 18th Oct. : Parkhouse
18th Oct, : "The story of Dingo".
20th Oct,: Havre.
23rd., and 24th Oct.: Rouen, and description of approaching the line.
26th et seq First impressions of the Belgian war zone.
(behind Ypres)
DIARY No.6. 1918.
5th Jan. et seq: Behind the Messines sector: Locre and Sec Bois.
28th Feb " " In the Ypres-Comines canal sector.
Detailled description of the Ypres country.
12th March: Description of a gas attack, and "no-man's land".
17th March: In hospital.
20th " Hospital bombed. V.C. man described.
DIARY No. 7.
9th to 16th April: Havre. Conjectures on German advance.
Preparations to leave for line again.
17th to 20th " : En route to line. Rouen.
18th : Description of communications during retreat.
20th Arrival in Strazeele sector, near Hazebrouck.