Item 04: Herbert Henry Harris diary, 1 August 1917-31 May 1918 - Page 227
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[Page 227]
[This page contains notes and calculations, several crossed out]
[Transcriber's notes:
Knuts p. 13 - Digger slang for important people
Aubigny sometimes spelt Auvigny or Auverne
Audruicq spelt Audruico
Blangy spelt Blancy
Broodseinde spelt Broodsinde
Caestre spelt Caestra
Cassel spelt Cassell
Coulogne spelt Cologne
Daours spelt Daouw
Dickebusch spelt Dickey Bush or dickeybush
Dranouter spelt Draunoutre, Denoutre
Godewaersvelde spelt Goewaersvelde
Hazebrouck spelt various ways, including Hazelbruk, Hazebrouk, Hailsbruck
Louvencourt spelt Lovencourt on page 76
Merville sometimes spelt Melville
Messines spelt Missines
Outtersteene spelt Outterstein or Outersteen
Passchendaele speld Pashendale or Paschendale
Polygon Wood sometimes spelt Pologon Wood
Poperinge spelt Poeringhe
Renescure spelt Reneskue or Renesque
Reninghelst spelt Renninghurst
Thiennes sometimes spelt Thinnes
Villers Bretonneux sometimes spelt Villers Bretonneaux or Villers Brettoneaux
Wimereux spelt Wimereaux
Wizernes spelt Wazernes]
[Transcribed by Barbara Manchester, June Pettit, Judy Macfarlan for the State Library of New South Wales]