Item 15: Archie Barwick diary, 1 October-14 December 1918 - Page 59
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& warships are everywhere. Around the promenade there are laid out little gardens, there is also an aquarium & a band stand where on summer nights a band plays nightly great crowds usually throng this walk & it is very lively & especially of an evening. From here we went down the town & into "Colliers" the best restaurant in Plymouth for tea. As we were going to our seat I heard some one sing out "Arch, Arch" & on looking round got the shock of my life to see an old cobber of mine Lieut. Shannon, I thought he was back in Australia long ago. The last time I saw him was in the Corner House in London & he then was going back to Aussie in a few days with a stiff leg. It appears from what he told me that he was getting on board ship & slipped on the gangway & broke his leg & had been in hospital ever since, how stiff was Freddie, he has still got his leg in Plaster of Paris. I am going down to see him first chance I get he is stopping at Durnforde Hotel.