Item 14: Archie Barwick diary, 20 June-30 September 1918 - Page 128
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Have been suffering from a slight attack of dysentery of late, the whole Camp has been more or less affected by it I fancy the water is at fault.
The war news in the papers seem's to get better every day of late all the papers are at one in giving the Australians great praise for their magnificent performances of late, the capture of Mont Saint Quentin just outside Peronne seems to have set the seal on their wonderful records, for this was a most formidable fortress & one which held us up for a long time last year, yet the "Diggers" took it & its garrison in a single leap to their everlasting glory, the English papers consider this to be one of the finest single feats of the war, & devote a lot of attention & space in their journals to the far reaching effect this is likely to have