Item 01: Oscar Rhodes diary, 26 June 1915-4 April 1916 - Page 21
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[Page 21]
an air of expectency everywhere & we are prepared for anything in the way of orders.
Rumour has it that the 1st of the 20th & 21st Reinforcements have been cut up at the Dardanelles & that Lieut. Harper, who accompanied us on the "Berrima" has been killed. (All wrong.)
I write by dull candle light on the dark shades of our tent; around me my comrades earnestly discuss the chances of the future & their serious faces & talk alternately merry, happy-go-lucky, & lurid in its expressiveness, betrays their determination to carry things out with a big heart & to the end. "Do or die" is our motto.
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Friday 13th Aug. 1915
Rumours & rumours of war. The whole camp is seething with
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