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26 May 1916
Friday

Up 5.45 a.m. Breakfast of bread & jam, bully & pickles. Bob, Tony self & F. Cartwright 3– stretcher party. Carry diphtheric patient over 1 road. Ryan. No amb. there. secure land amb. at Mortuary & wheel him down to Isolation. 1 mile away. watch funeral from mortuary no less than 4 land amb. shrouded by Union Jacks each bearing a corpse cross to cemetery. Just a chaplain & a few soldiers in the procession. Poor chaps! Each a mother's son. Shift our camp next door. Board floor. After tea, do our usual stroll over to market & then round beach, back to Y.M.C.A & tea & cake then bed.
[indecipherable] Aeroplanes & 1 dirigible seen today.
Sergeant reads us more letters from a soldier to his people. Fine.

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