Palmer war diary, 8 Dec. 1915-17 April 1919 / Joseph Adams Palmer - Page 73

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one warning & the nigger would not go. So he fired a shot & it went clean through a case of cordial & through the bottom of the boat & needless to say the nigger was not long in moving off as if his life was in danger
There is a breakwater at the entrance to Port Said & just about the beginning of it stands a monument in memory of the Frenchman Lesseps who cut the Suez Canal

[Transcriber's note : It has been said that some of the soldiers on offering their diaries to Mr Ifould wanted to rewrite them leaving out most of the horror. This is not what the librarian wanted and he made that known, but this journal has probably been re-written from diary notes.]

[Transcribed by Helen Monaghan for the State Library of New South Wales]