Item 02: Frank Valentine Weir letter diary, 2 January-31 December 1916 - Page 359
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[Page 359]
[Tuesday 26 December 1916]
No Ink for new Pen
Helped bury Lt Ernie Mack a cousin of HLA- yesterday also met Jack Mack from the Lachlan-
Our Casualties in fight were
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Officers- Killed - 5
Wounded- 7
Others - Killed- 17
Wounded- 117
146
Turks-
Officers & others killed- 96
Wounded- 218
Prisoners- 1238
Big mail of old letters I got 30- Mother, Day. May. Laura & a heap of others on hearing I was wounded & followed me to England-
General Chetwynde G.O.C. Desert Column paraded the Anzac Division & thanked us for work done.