Item 14: Archie Barwick diary, 20 June-30 September 1918 - Page 116
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& I am sitting at our little table trying to scribble these few lines in my old diary The other day a chap from our Battalion came up to me & asked me if I knew Bill Barwick, he told me he was in the next bed to Bill in a Surrey Hos. I think he said & Bill told him to tell me that he had got a bullet through his knee & would be going back to Australia when fit to travel, I feel sorry for poor Bill for he was such an athletic chap & this is bound to affect him probably give him a stiff leg for life
28th. Have had a pretty quiet day no trouble with the Dental people on this afternoons parade down at the Dental Rooms we bumped all the Australian Press representatives who are over here looking round this country, one could easily see