Item 01: W. E. Bendrey diary, 16 May-5 October 1915 - Page 48

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6 Good tucker & plenty of it.
7 (Herald here dated 21.7.15)
A1. good appetite. Wrote 13 pcs. Paid 50 piastres – Also got 100 on 3rd. No chocolate boy now Rotten luck I reckon.
8 Rather sore throat. Not bad night. Gramophone is counted out to no end. Rotten machine. YMCA few yards away very handy. Concert tonight. Songs, Comic & otherwise, some class too. Obtained chocolate at last
9 Bit off. Stiff neck. Too much chocolate perhaps. No letters yet. Pcs handed round
10 Feeling better. Heard 2 Batt be relieved shortly. Pest in next bed has gone to Palace Hosp "Poor Palace". Met Alf Cooper tonight. He's X wounded in leg X Bungoo Krippner was wounded by bomb. "What a night !" A glorious, starlit Eastern night: and here am I sprawling in a deck chair