Item 05: Archie Barwick diary, 3 September-3 October 1916 - Page 8
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[Page 8]
This is the place for rats & such wallopers, the place simply swarm's with them, there was a mixed crowd out last night hunting them, one Staff captain, 1 Medical Officer with a wooden leg the result of Gallopoli & a shell, some N.C.O's & a swag of privates, they got quite a number dug some out of their holes & got a lot more under old heaps of timber & duckboards, each one was armed with a stick & pity help the rat once discovered.
They have some "Ross" rifles here & they are nice looking, the magazine especially takes my fancy, the Canadians use them.
They buried the first Australian in their little cemetry to day he was a
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