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May Thursday 17 1917

Afternoon off. I go into Boulogne Get Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads for Andy Carruthers. Leave coat at Merridews. Visit At Boulogne "Haute Ville". An absorbingly

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1917 Friday 1 June

Gen. duties. Wire mending round camp
MacB & I down to beach after tea Mac put on night duty for month Has to shift into another shack.
Letters from Mrs. Gelling

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1917 Monday 11 June

Have a turn in Orderly Room. Collecting Classification States from Wards. etc. Good job but only temporary. Have to go into B – on pass – with letters &

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1917 Wednesday 27 June

A few more letters to hand up to middle of Apr.
Patients much as usual. Farrow our worst case now. Hepatite not too good. Chorus of groans all night long.

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1917 Monday 6 August

Bank Holiday. Rain per usual. Nothing of moment to report. Usual actions up the line. Mud & slush unheard of in its awfulness. Men waist deep in it Worst possible

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August Monday 13 1917

Usual duties. Beaucoup work, but I do not mind attending to the poor old chaps. They all appear very grateful for whatever is done. One bad patient. Forster paralysed. Very

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Do keep these notes.
The first issued to me on Gallipoli.
I have other souvenirs which I intend to send.

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1916 March 16
Thursday
We do nothing much all day. Tony & self slip off to town in afternoon despite warning that no leave would be granted. Bob followed later. We take tea at Mac's &

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1916 April 13
Thursday

Ward orderly this morning. very hot steamy. Shaved of moustache & had hair cut by A. M. C. barber. Geo. Laurence.
Grainus pudding. Debate on "Early Closing"