Soldier's diary
Soldier's diary : Image 43 of 126
- Title Edward Herbert Aubrey : Soldier's diary
- Creator Edward Herbert Aubrey
- Date 1917-1919.
- Transcription 1917 June 23 Sat
Went out to a rifle range in morning to do some more shooting & get used of how our new rifles carry
The camel transport leave enough water in a resovoir here every day to allow us to have one gallon a day for each man for washing purposes. This is real decent & we hope they keep it up. I had a bath with my gallon today & tomorrow I am going to wash some clothes
1917 June 24 Sun
We are going to have reveille at 4-30 for the rest of the summer so we are up bright & early feed our horses & have breakfast over about six o'clock & are back from watering about 8 o'clock. Today we had a kit inspection & are to carry less gear on our horses in future & from this out we are not carrying overcoats - Image 43 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-1917-043
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