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66. October 19
Related in the Huts.
England: an estaminet: Australians and Americans.
"Walt: I don't think much of the god-damned beer, and its [indecipherable] enough!"
"No! it is been waiting three years on the counter!"
And another little pleasantry resulted.
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'The Letters of a Soldier', I have finished reading them this morning. It is a book as lovely and wounderful as an old poem. A book that should go singing of the "rich dead" down all the years to come.
I have marked many paragraphs…. and they are all to my Mother, to take to her some feelings I haven't well written.
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The Mother, P. Pearse
I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not grudge,
My two strong sons that I have seen go out
To break their strength and die, they & a few,
In bloody protest for a glorious thing,
They shall be spoken of among their people
The generations shall remember them
And call them blessed:
But I will speak their names to my own heart
In the long nights:
The little names that were familiar once
Round my dead hearth.
Lord, thou art hard on Mothers:
We suffer in their coming and their going:
And tho' I grudge them not, I weary, weary,
Of the long sorrow – and yet I have my joy,
My sons were faithful, and they fought.
October 19
Oh Lovely Head, P. Pearse
Oh lovely head of the woman that I loved,
In the middle of the night I remember thee:
But reality returns with the sun's whitening,
Alas, that the slender worm gnaws thee to-night.
Beloved voice, that wast low and beautiful,
Is it true that I heard thee in my slumbers!
Or is the knowledge true that tortures me?
My grief, the tomb hath no sound or voice?
From The Collected Works of P.H. Pearse, Maunsell
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Corps Order No. 756, 19.9.17
by Col. E.T. Brennan
Strength: No. 4066 Pte. Mitchell and No. 641 Pte. Algie W. were evacuated to hospital wounded on 17th inst.
The following were evacuated to hospital on 18 inst.
No. 8090 - Pte. Nicholson, H.E.
9180 – Pte. Matthews, J.J.
14318 – Pte. Stubbs, A.W.
195 – Pte. Owens, C.V.
14832 – Pt. Firman, W.H.
8533 – Pte. Bottger, J.K.
8514 - Pte. Bishop, J.
7730 - Pte. Barton, R.O.
14651 – Pte. Dival, S.V.
9374 – Pte. Robbins, C.J.
1256 – Pte. O'Houlihan, P.
241 – L/Cpl. Mulholand, J.L.
1168 – Sgt. Reed, N.H.
2406 – Pte. Maroney, R.W.
101 – Pte. Brown, R.E.
8667 – Pte. Cochrane, G.H.
4316 – Pte. Young, A.V.
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