Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 17
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prior to sailing was a well remembered one to me. We left Liverpool at 4/30 amidst the cock a doodle doing of the trams that were drawn up at the station. Reached Sydney and I remember that it rained pretty heavily. The lines were constantly broken by the relatives of the soldiers coming in and talking to them.
I remember seeing Douglas Graham with a girl on his arm. He was afterwards, so I was told, killed at Strazcele [France]. The circumstances were pathetic as his case. One of a party of No 7 Platoon of which he was a corporal, told off to storm a farm house in which German machine gunners were poseted, he got badly wounded. He was seen waving his hands all through the day. Towards night he ceased – dead.
We put up for the night at the Show Ground, we who are able secured leave so that we might say a final