Series 01: George Lillie war diary, 24 August 1914-24 April 1915 - Page 7

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Regimental The Girl I left behind me

Diary 1914
We left Warwick for Ennogera on Sept 24th for Pinkenba & at noon on same day left Pinkenba by TS Omrah for Melbourne where we arrived on 27th at midnight & anchored out in the bay four days & then proceeding to the wharf after stopping in Port Melbourne for 3 weeks we again shifted out to to resume the voyage to Albany. During our stay in Melbourne we had a fairly good time of it doing a good bit of drill in the way of skirmishing. After leaving Melbourne we struck very fine weather the sea