Item 13: Archie Barwick diary, 25 April-19 June 1918 - Page 5
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the same time he brought up several other matters about holding on till the last, no surrender, & etc. which to my mind were quite needless for had not the Australians always fought up to their reputation, & needed no telling about it, I always think that Nelson's famous signal just before Trafalgar was needless also, for had they not always fought their hardest & there was no need to remind them of it, at any rate after waiting about for an hour or so we put our gear on & marched away from the railway line & struck up some little country roads, here we struck some pitable sights all along the road for the poor old French people were tramping painfully along with their few treasured possessions done up in bundles which whey were carrying in their hands, some of