Soldier's diary
Soldier's diary : Image 17 of 126
- Title Edward Herbert Aubrey : Soldier's diary
- Creator Edward Herbert Aubrey
- Date 1917-1919.
- Transcription 1917 May 4 Fri
Stand too this morning at 3.30. We didn't go out today. Had a parade in our gas helmets, & a little instruction in the correct way to use them. Turko's have dropped a note in our lines saying our gas was a failure & we didn't know how to use it, but that in a day or two they will show us so we are expecting some gas shells now. To bed 9 o'clock wakened 10-30 by sentry shouting out. Enemy, aeroplane, over. It was very clear moonlight but he didn't bomb us.
1917 May 5 Sat
The guns were firing on & off all night. All the men available entrenching & putting up barb wire entanglements today. Turks dropped about 20 bombs at our rail head last night had a go at the ammunitions dump & aerodrome. We have not heard the particulars yet, but here was not a great deal of damage done - Image 17 of 126
- Collection Description World War I diary kept by Edward Herbert Aubrey (1891-1963) from May 1917 to November 1917, with brief notes from 1918 and 1919. Some pages were removed and sent to relatives.
- Parent Collection Description Edward Aubrey served from 10 February 1916 to 19 February 1919. He embarked on the Waihora in December 1916 with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 19th Reinforcements, New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade. Aubrey served in Egypt; and after being wounded on 5 November 1917 part of his left leg was amputated. Edward Aubrey spent his remaining service in medical care in Egypt and then Britain. On his return to New Zealand he returned to farming in the Omarama area on land won in a ballot as part of a Returned Soldiers' initiative.
- Collection Location Private collection
- File Reference CCL-Aubrey-1917-017
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