MacArty war diary, 20 October 1914-24 July 1916 / Humphrey Warren Barker MacArty - Page 87
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APRIL 23
Sunday we go to church
25 – 25 Anzac Day
we have lovely sports and concert in Hospital Ground. Receive cigarette case from Red Cross fund boarded by colonel for Australia
May 1 st
still in Hospt. large body of wounded men arrive from England, on there way to Australia, British Yeomanry lose 400 dead 7 mile out Austrians and Germans surround them and shoot their horses,160 ladies captured 40 suffering from V.D.
May 5th
Afternoon off to go to Anzac Hostel had a look around city
May 3rd
8 German Aeroplanes attack Suez drop 40 Bombs, try and wreck wharf 140 killed 230 wounded
10th
all Light Horse leaving for Palestine & Syria, Infantry at prison
13
Transferred to Luna Park, Hospt
16
Concert given by the Countess Jasinsky in Dining Hall lad dies with heat