Soldier's diary
Soldier's diary : Image 72 of 126
- Title Edward Herbert Aubrey : Soldier's diary
- Creator Edward Herbert Aubrey
- Date 1917-1919.
- Transcription 1917 August 20 Mon
Spent the most of the day in our bivvy did some writing reading & sleeping Went on guard at 8 pm until 11-30 pm then finished for the night. We slept in the dump & were awakened very early by the hideous row the niggers on the Camel trans-port corps. They start loading at 3 am & the place is busy then until dark at night. French soldiers on guard here. They are much harder on niggers than us
1917 August 21 Tues
Came off guard at 7 am had an easy day in our camp. Did a little reading, writing & sleeping. The guard is a good job & we all say it will do us for the duration of the war. Plenty of firing going on in the direction of Gaza but we are well behind the scenes now & like the rest here thing they sound very well in the distance - Image 72 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-1917-072
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