Item 01: Dudley V. Walford diary, 23 September 1914 - 13 August 1916 - Page 56

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[Page 56]

& men packing & unpacking stores reminded one of an Egyptian business quarter. The field ambulance in well sheltered dug-out at the foot of the hills did great work, and were subject to much shell fire. At the northern & southern ends of the beach were situated the most pathetic of all the sites – graveyards where the heroes lay at rest with crosses well moulded & painted & neatly arranged with reverence so well deserved & perhaps in years to come the wattle trees planted there will pay a better & more homely tribute to heroes almost forgotten.

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