Item 01: Henry Weston Pryce diary, May 1916-ca. 1918 - Page 3
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[Page 3]
No 379
Machine Gunner (Peut-être p.v.etc)
H. W. Pryce, 4th or 6th Rfts. of 9th Emma Gee C, A.I.F.
Ny's Booke.
Part one being exhumed from the original book, fallen into disrepair thro being drowned or submerged in a lake of wobble waters at the house of one Ah Something in Swanston St, Swanstown-on-Yarra & thereby rendered into a "looseleaf".
Enlisted 8/5/16 V.B. [Victoria Barracks] and vaccinated with cowpox, anthrax, tetnus & generally a hell of a sore arm.
Into Camp at S. [Show] Ground 31/5/16 with about 200 gents, many of whom seem to imagine they're on a picnic trip.
1/6/16 Created an acting temp Corp & given a dozen roughnecked citizens to initiate into the horrors of forming up. 1 p.m. on parade with my army, under