Soldier's diary
Soldier's diary : Image 36 of 126
- Title Edward Herbert Aubrey : Soldier's diary
- Creator Edward Herbert Aubrey
- Date 1917-1919.
- Transcription 1917 June 11 Mon
A fairly quiet day in the rest camp. Had three swims in the sea.
A heavy bombardment started at 8 o'clock. several miles in front of where we are camped. One infantry made a night raid on the Turkish trenches The shells killed a good no. of turks & our infantry captured several outposts next the shore & also the guns there. The raids in the other parts of the line were not so successful
1917 June 12 Tues
We took all our horses into the sea for a swim in the morning. The look nice & clean & as if they had been extra well groomed after the swim. I was on a water escort in the afternoon, with eight niggers & 16 camels My job was to ride round with the camels & see niggers kept water cans clean & show them where it had to be unloaded. wrote letters in my bivvie in evening - Image 36 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-1917-036
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