Item 03: T. Darchy war diary, 17 June - 9 July 1918; 10 April - 9 May 1919 - Page 34

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was sighted about 12 noon & by about 2 we anchored of Freemantle The W.A. got there bags out & gave there hammocks Etc in The Dr came on & spent about 2 hours on a farcical inspection put a thermometer in each mouth & eventually about 7 PM it was given out than no one was to land & the W.A. are to do 7 days quarantine One more case of the rotten incompitence & incapacity of the army & Gov officials generally From here about1 mile out Freemantle does not look much