Item 01: Sydney B. Young war diary, 13 May-24 July 1916 - Page 46

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[Page 46]

iodine. In case of severance of limb artery will knot itself
For Broken rib first squeeze all air out of man's body and put a tight bandage round ribs.
It is raining, misty, close & miserable to-day

28th To night I have seen the most glorious sunset of my life. Picture the grim lines of a cruiser silhouetted against the grey murky background of the sea & above a dark bank of cloud tinged with heliotrope, dying into what looked like a lake of the most glorious azure such as was never given to man

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