Item 01: R. T. Vowles diary, 22 August 1915-23 February 1916 - Page 35
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& had provided against their use. No leave was to be granted during daytime & 80% would get the week ends off from noon Saturday to Midnight Sunday. Think & scheme as we did he had us wet. The work got very tedious & persistent. Monotonous was no name for it, & not being used to it we thought we were going to die.
The first week end I was Keystone Policeman, that is I had to stop in & look after the lines. All the others left for home so I had to spend the week end alone – very cheerful. The church societies at Casula have many tents for amusement & for writing letters. Concerts were given every night, some were good & others were very poor. About this time the soldiers were beginning to get rather noisy & had riots in town over German premises & germans in positions in the city. Much trouble was caused also by the Military Police that were drawn up from volunteers. These Police were for "Home Defence" & were