Palmer war diary, 8 Dec. 1915-17 April 1919 / Joseph Adams Palmer - Page 3

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[Transcriber's notes :
Diary entries          - Page numbers

Enlists at West Maitland 8th December 1915 -          2
Voyage Sydney to England 9th May to 23rd June -          2 to 14
In camp in England, training & leave to 21st November -          15 to 19
Left for France 21st November -          19
Arrive Armentiers 27th November 1916 -          20
Saw action---- one shell -          21
Wounded in arm 10th March; in hospital -          24
Two weeks furlough; camp in south England -          26
Rejoined battalion 26th August -          28
To Ypres 26th Sept -          29
Saw action; expresses horror at British treatment of dead -          30, 31
Passchendale, many casualties -          33
German offensive started 21st March -          37
Battalion into line 4th April -
Palmer gassed 17th April; to US General Hospital 19th April -          38
Palmer to convalescent hospital England; camp
Australia House, London opened 3rd August -
Armistice celebrations till 23rd November -
CO announced return to Australia of 2nd and 3rd Divs. 16th December -          44
Sailed from Liverpool 9th January 1919 -          45
Arrived Sydney 25th Feb - 53
Troops complain of conditions of camp at Quarantine Station, North Head -          54
Farewell to AIF -          56
Full marching order kit for AIF -          58
Lists of distances -          59
Lists of places called at -          60
Mess orderly's accounts -          61
Les Darcy's bouts -          64, 65
Anzac Day -          67]

No 866

Pte J A Palmer

34th Battn

A I. F