Item 01: J. E. Morrison diary, 13 October 1917-29 October 1918 - Page 41
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18th [Mar]
Still taking in battle field requirements.
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Great distlay of Hydroplanes (Italian) flying low & around & over the transports. Engins making a fearful noise. The electrician sent to the hospital having been formally 12 months at the front & discharged with Nerveous breakdown. The old complaint came on again when steaming through the Submarine Zone. A fireman fell down the bunkers a distance of 25 ft & badly fractured his legs. Also a soldier fell down the hold about the same time. Both sent ashore to the hospital.
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Our chief gunner Wells left today on transfer to H.M.A.S. Melbourne. Sent by rail from Taranto to Cherbourg France & across Channel to England.
21st
Finished loading cargo. Every available space filled & 3000 bags of mail for Eastern Front. Troop decks being cleaned out by West India Soldiers ready for embarkation of troops. These soldiers with white corporals & sargeants are used for all cargo & labor work. Motto. They do lots of work in a very long time.
22nd
Embarked 200 officers 800 troops & three sisters. Awaiting for some more tomorrow. A third of these officers are for India the rest for Egypt.
News this day of 14 steamers being sunk by submarines in the Adriatic. The H.M.S.