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[Transcriber's note:
This diary covers the period from 24 November to 12 December 1916. A large part of it concerns James Marshall's four-day leave in London, 24-27 November. He describes the places he visited and compares the sights of London to those in Sydney, his home town, voting Sydney the more attractive and interesting architecturally.
He also describes a visit to a Mr and Mrs Butcher of Woolwich, parents of a young man he had known at Graythwaite, the ANZAC hostel and convalescent home in North Sydney, who, he learned, had recently died of spinal meningitis.
Pages 29-39 give details of life back in camp on Salisbury Plain near Wilton as his unit underwent bayonet and grenade training for the front.]
J. I. Marshall Papers
Diary
24 Nov. 1916 – 12 Dec. 1916
ML MSS. 1164 Item 3