Item 14: Archie Barwick diary, 20 June-30 September 1918 - Page 161
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As I was walking down to the "Mess" this evening I saw Albert McKenzie he has not changed much.
After dinner having nothing to do I went for a stroll down to the OTB. to see some of the boys down there, I was hurrying along the road & I passed a group of officers when I had got a few yards away one of them sang, "hey hold on Sgt a minute I turned round to see who it was, & to my surprise Major Jacobs came forward & shook hands he belongs to our Battn & is a real nice chap got knocked the night before I did round Straziele I walked a long way down the road with him & we had a good old yarn about things in general & this 1914 Stunt in particular.
Old Brook's who took my Dental job over has been driven nearly mad according to all accounts & there is