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26 Sept.
Tranship from Glenart Castle to the Grampian.
27 Sept.
Sail from Lemnos at 6 PM.
30 Sept.
In the harbour at Malta at 8 AM.
2 Oct.
Put on 100 Wounded and start coaling.
3 Oct.
Finish coaling. Sail at 5 P.M.
6 Oct.
4 P.M. We stop at Gibralta until 10 P.M.
8 Oct.
In the Bay of Biscay.
10 Oct.
Pick up the escort of 2 destroyers.
11 October
Stop off Plymouth at 4 AM. 8 AM come into the harbour and tie up at the wharf opposite the 'Alaunica' and the 'Caimania'. Disembark and entrain for Bristol. Leave Plymouth at 1 PM & arrive in Bristol at 5 PM after a very pleasant journey.
12 October
In ward 13 Southmead Hospital.
14 October
In bed with a bad headache.
15 October
Transferred to ward 11. Enteric.
27 October
Am well of interic and transferred to ward 16.
30 October
I am taken out to tea with 20 other Australians. After seeing the zoo we have tea in a gentleman's house.
31 Oct.
A visitor comes to see me. Am in bed. Have a sleepless night.
3 November
We have a visitor.
5 November
Go for a spin in a car to Bristol Channel.
6 Nov.
Have an evening out. Holmans.
7 November
The "General" and I go to Bristol on Pass.
8 November
I say goodbye to Southmead Hospital and go to Epsom.
11 November
[This line is almost indecipherable as it was scratched out. Possibly "Receive a letter from my friend".]
1916 – Diary continued after 3 months in Hospital & Convalescent
[In original diary these entries for 1916 were made in the Oct.-Nov. pages of the 1915 diary]
17 Feb.
We leave England on the 17th of February arrive at Lemnos on Feb. 25th and transfer to the "Ivernia" from the "Olympic". Sail for Alexandria 20th arriving there on Monday 28th. Am on guard till 12 noon.