Soldier's diary
Soldier's diary : Image 42 of 126
- Title Edward Herbert Aubrey : Soldier's diary
- Creator Edward Herbert Aubrey
- Date 1917-1919.
- Transcription 1917 June 21 Thurs
An other hot day. We always seem to have something to do. Went bombing in the morning & bayonet fighting in the evening. we have nearly 4 miles to ride to water twice a day and all the way in thick dust A couple of taubes over in the evening & our planes went up after them but they were soon all too far away for us to see what was doing
1917 June 22 Fri
We did some bayonet fighting this morning in the hot sun. Our sergeant was the instructor & he knows very little about bayonet fighting & so there was more argueing than anything else. I saw some of the men of the camel corps in the evening. Two of the fellows who came over with us. The said all their company have been medically examined & doctors says 75 % are medically unfit for service - Image 42 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-1917-042
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