Item 01: R. T. Vowles diary, 22 August 1915-23 February 1916 - Page 36
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[Page 36]
called Cold Feet. In camp they were such that one's life became unbearable. Surely there are enough restrictions without having secret detectives to add to one's burden. However a riot began in Liverpool over the Gilgandra Cooees who seemed in the boom regarding the night leave they got compared to the rest. One night it opened out & tents were burned to the ground amid very lively scenes & during which two men were killed & some thirty wounded.
A few nights later Casula Camp was visited by some of the Liverpool men & a riot began over one of the Military Police who was a Maori & who also was much disliked, In a few minutes some four thousand of them were a howling & yelling crowd that hunted the Maori out of Camp, caught him, & gave him nothing. He was eventually saved from being killed by "Jimmy" a YMCA official. During all this, the officers simply stood aghast & yelled Men! "be British" but they may as well kept quiet, for the men