Item 01: Clifford M. Geddes diary, 31 March-1 August 1918 - Page 177
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room is near a room where a crowd are living, & only has 4 big windows (open too) in it, & the average Australian Sentry doesn't take guarding his own men seriously. Poor old Alton won't have much sleep tonight, he set off for D Coy. about 11 p.m.. The case will have to wait till they come out of the line. I had a bit of a sleep at midnight on the hard, "chatty" floor. Wedn. 31 July Reveille went at 4.30, for breakfast we had bully beef, & at 7 a.m. the nucleus, followed by our guard & the prisoners, set off for Hivery, a walk of 10 kilos. On practically no sleep & no breakfast I don't know how I did the cursed tramp. I was humping (the other chaps also) a load like a pack horse, & motor lorries, empty two too were passing us the whole time. The road was a beauty, though, smooth & straight & ran right on between avenues of big trees which cast their welcome shade over the road. Whenever a spell was called, we wearily dropped on the ground by the wayside. We turned off at the edge of the city of Amiens, & eventually arrived at dugouts where the 49th Bn. were, we sat down & rested till they