2 WEDNESDAY Left camp Le Harvre at 6 pm Met Les Denyer who arr. Camp at 5. Left Havre per train 30 in truck at midnight.
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1 WALTER OTTO HERBERT ALLEN DIARY JANUARY 1 TUESDAY Arrived Le Havre in early morn. Marched 6 miles to A.D.B.O. arr 11 am.. 2.pm equipped for line Wrote notes to J.P.Gray, Ern Pieper & Mr Parsons. (very rough passage across channel.) Left S.Hampton at 5 pm 31 Dec. Saw 1918 in under disagreeable cond. Very tired. 2 WEDNESDAY Left camp Le Harvre at 6 pm Met Les Denyer who arr. Camp at 5. Left Havre per train 30 in truck at midnight. 3 THURSDAY Arrived Rouen early morning. Stayed rest camp till 3 pm. Had a run down town Good dinner arrived Etaples 3 am. 4 FRIDAY Had breakfast at Etaples Started for Samer by train. Reached it after rotten march on slippery road. Very tired. 5 SATURDAY Met Geo Duddle & many of the old boys. Arrived at Battn. Reported to No. 7 Platoon B Coy. 6 SUNDAY Walked to MG Coy Alford on leave to Blighty. 7 MONDAY Battn Parade & inspection for NCO's. Coy & Platoon drill. Platoon in attack stunt. Walked to A Coy in afternoon. 8 TUESDAY Snowed in Morning too wet for parade. Cleared snow from road at noon. Quiet afternoon. 9 WEDNESDAY Woke up and found blankets covered with snow (drifted through walls & roof). No. 7 Platoon fatigue shovelling snow of main road started snowing again at 11 am. Miserable afternoon. 10 THURSDAY Heavy wind melting the snow roads very slushy & cold. Gave Coy PT & B.F. Afternoon walked to Le Turne afterwards had a look at D coy sports. 11 FRIDAY Batt n Parade Platoon Drill. Rain Musketry in Billets. Afternoon 2.30 Parade for NCO's (some stunt ceremonial). Warmer weather wind died down. Wrote to Claude, G.S & Jas.P.G.
2 12 SATURDAY Very cold. Shooting on Range in Morning. Inspection in Afternoon. 13 SUNDAY Church Parade to Le Turna. Walk in afternoon. Fine day. 14 MONDAY Rain on and off. Uneventful - & usual routine. 15 TUESDAY Rainy weather combined with snow. Went for short route march. Paid in evening 70 francs. Alec Roddan marched in. 16 WEDNESDAY Drizzling rain & high wind jolly cold. Did Coy. Stunt. Advance guard & scouting through muddy fields & along Neufchatel road. Evening Walked to Neufchatel had good feed. Met Wal Bex 53 RD & several others. 17 THURSDAY Rain No morning parade after Afternoon Batt n Sports in rain Ran in 440 came 4 th Woods won miles. Received letters from Frank & Morley, Kerang - & Salisbury. Wrote home & G'burn. 18 FRIDAY Morning Ran in 3 mile (19 th ) A Coy won most pts. Afternoon Continued sports 2 nd in high & long jump 3 rd in hurdles "B" Coy won Tug of War 19 SATURDAY Bde. Sports 55 th Battln, won 3 mile officers race Band race Tug-of-war high and broad jump. Received 21 letters all Aussie. Received word from Bank of N.S.W. 20 SUNDAY Morning. Not well, so staying in Billets. Rained most of day. Received letters from Ern P, Les Denyer & Mrs Cady. 21 MONDAY Feel better Morn. Parade. P.T. & Bombing. Presentation of prizes for sports. Received letter from Annie. Posted letter home and to Bank of N.S.W. London. 22 TUESDAY Gen. Birdwood attended Bde parade presentation of Medals & honours. I went on Boulonge leave. Had good time. Bought post cards. Went & returned per transport. Boulonge large place. Rained in evening. Back in billets at 9 pm. 23 WEDNESDAY Coy Parade fine day. B.F. for Coy. Covered tin helmets with sacking. Posted letters to Dad, Edie & Les Denyer. 24 THURSDAY
3 Bde Route march to Le Turne full marching order wearing tin hats. Got back in time to see Aust rules football match 14 v 15 Bat. Easy win for 15 th. 25 FRIDAY Gave Coy P.T in morn. Afternoon marched to Neufchatel for hot bath. Dismissed afterwards. Wrote to E & A & C.P. in YMCA. Had two good feeds. Got back at 9 PM. 26 SATURDAY Bde Stunt postponed on account of fog. "D" Coy beat B Coy at Rugby. Got Mother's letter Nov SUNDAY Went top O.P.D. Ch. Parade in morning. Afternoon Met F. Alford had good yarn & compared letters. 28 MONDAY Preparing to move cleaning up billets etc. Inspection of kits. Afternoon played game of Rugby football. Walked to Neufchatel for notebook. Had good feed. 29 TUESDAY Reveille at 2.30 am moved off at 3.30 Bright moonlight. Arr. Samer Rly Stn at Breakfast in paddock very cold front entrained at 6.30 left at 7 am. Nice bright day arr Hazebrouck about 12 noon off train behind line a few mls. Camped for night. Watched air fight. 30 WEDNESDAY Morning - Severe frost Given instructions & made preparations for forward move 5 pm left camp for reserve line arr Irish house (shell torn town) at 6.30 occupied dugouts (Alberta dugouts) holding 4 men each pretty uncomfortable but better than nothing made ourselves as snug as poss. & went to sleep. 31 THURSDAY Heavy fog on fatigue. Cleaning new dugouts for C Coy to occupy various other jobs getting firewood etc cold 8 pm, Bombardment to the left very quiet afterwards. (Gas helmets worn at "alert") FEBRUARY 1 FRIDAY Fatigue building dugout for guard near Coy H. Irs found old German snipers helmet steel. Afternoon Jack Oldfield & I improving our dugout 4pm Ration fatigue. Received letters & photos from Ern Day & Claude Pieper. 2 SATURDAY Clear day after frost 7.30 moved with 4 Platoons for fatigue camped under observation Balloon various fatigues loading limbus etc. 3 SUNDAY 8 am. 9 men & myself followed transport to Palmers Dump, loaded 18 roofs for dug outs in forward area. Very fine morning. Night 9.30 pm. Walked 6 miles up to the line fatigue till 4 am. 4 MONDAY
4 Arr from all night fatigue at 6 am. Slept till 2pm Dinner Rest again till pm. Left for line on same job worked from 2 am to 5.30 arr back at Had soup & to bed. "Brekker" at 10 Afternoon went to Irish house got parcel from Clm R.C. & 3 letters 1 home & 2 G'burn. Rec pay. 5 TUESDAY Standing by ready for shift at 3pm. Didn't come off so had good night's rest. 6 WEDNESDAY Rose at 8 am Fatigues about camp. Rumours of move. Dinner at Marched F.M.O. (less blankets) 3 mls. nearer line arr 3 pm. Set to work finishing dugouts Cpl Meldrum & I occupy one Used Fritz overcoat for curtain over door. Blankets arrived 7 pm. Battn quite close. 7 THURSDAY Not much doing trying to rain bought torch lamp at Canteen Consolidation fatigue supports from 5 pm till 10 pm. Very slushy towards line. Plenty fireworks supplied by Fritz. Wrote letters home & to Clm. Red X Issued with gloves. 8 FRIDAY Breakfast at 8. Having a rest. Wrote to Jim Gray. Received letters from Mother, Edie & C. Parsons. Notified about parcel at Irish House. 9 SATURDAY Went on fatigue to Preston Dump making entanglements & salvaging, finished at Walked to Irish House. Received parcel from Clm Red X. Saw Gen Birdwood. 10 SUNDAY Same work but finished at 12 Nothing doing in afternoon. Bombardment at 8.30 pm lasting 20 minutes or so. Raid by fifty-fourth. 11 MONDAY Same job till Improved dugout more comfortable writing letter to Ede Had feed of tomatoes & salmon. Received Red X parcel from Coolamon. 12 TUESDAY Same old fatigue, quite uneventful. Fritz sent over a few shells not far from us Lost my table knife Supper had feed of plums & milk very wet. 13 WEDNESDAY Rose at 6 am had breakfast & marched with No. 1 Platoon for bath at Hammel Tres Bon change of underclothes. Slept in afternoon. Wrote to Edie (finished letter). After tea had some pineapple & milk for supper. Again Tres Bon. 14 THURSDAY Morning wet Wrote to Claude. Afternoon misty worked under cover of mist at strong point. Shells landed near by but did no damage. 15 FRIDAY Got up at 4 am put up barbed wire near supports 150 yds. Knocked off when it got too light had breakfast & took things easy all day. Machine gun active.
5 16 SATURDAY Continued wiring early in morning nice bright day. Great aerial activity over line Again wiring 200 yds. Few bullets came over. 17 SUNDAY Aerial activity Lost one of our planes accidentally. Fell near YMCA in sap Wiring all night shells came close. (Paid) 18 MONDAY Uneventful but for shooting at enemy planes. Wiring all night. 19 TUESDAY 11 am. Aust plane fell near YMCA both men killed. Plenty air craft shooting. Wiring fatigue as usual. 20 WEDNESDAY 1pm Satisfaction prevails. 2 Enemy planes brought down. Same fatigue. 21 THURSDAY Another Taube brought down. Things lively shelled out of wood. Moved back to Coy. Going up. Res. 22 FRIDAY Fatigues. Pretty quiet. Rainy & dull. 23 SATURDAY Do Received 2 Gburn & 1 home letter. Comm letter to Edie. 24 SUNDAY Fatigues as usual. Finished Edie's letter - & received letters 2 from home with photo 1 from Gburn dated Jan 2 nd & 6 th. 25 MONDAY Dull day work - do. 26 TUESDAY Fatigues Fine day. A few shells lobbing in close no damage done. 27 WEDNESDAY Moved up line Good weather. Quiet. 28 THURSDAY Cold day gas guard. Monotonous job. Fritz raided on right two wounded. Arty duel. Planes galore MARCH 1 FRIDAY Very cold day windy & a little snow difficult to keep feet warm a few shells about. 2 SATURDAY Very cold & dull, quiet but for a few shells Usual strafe.
6 3 SUNDAY Very cold & cloudy pretty miserable in trench. Raided Fritz at pm bomb lasting 1 ¼ hours. Last three days too cloudy for planes. Raid party Cap M.G. 4 MONDAY Cold, windy & dull & bomb at night. 5 TUESDAY Quiet & fine day 6 WEDNESDAY Shell close narrow squeak. Rel at night. 7 THURSDAY In Supp. Quiet time rest fatigues in evening. Fine day. Night Bomb near Ypres. 8 FRIDAY Bonzer day. Wrote letters Les D & Castle St, Salisbury. Thousands of birds flew over. Plenty planes up. Plenty planes up. Bomb 8pm. Gas shells about. 9 SATURDAY Morn wrote letters to Mum Ede & Dorrie Bath & post letters. 10 SUNDAY Wrote to Miss Raward & Carter Fine weather Fatigues at night & Gas. 11 MONDAY Clear day same work. 12 TUESDAY Good weather, same work, carrying p201arty road B.W. shelled gas etc 13 WEDNESDAY Fine day special stunt. Dum. at night worked OK. 14 THURSDAY 6am Hinson killed H Burns wounded. Raining & dull all day. Ration fatigue to line Brought Dr in. 15 FRIDAY Cold wind fine day. Nothing doing. 16 SATURDAY Drew gumboots cleaned up trench etc had good sleep not feeling too good bad cold. 17 SUNDAY Moved up line very quiet night except for (pineapple) gas. 18 MONDAY Very fine - & great aerial activity moderate shelling all day on gas guard as before Reading 3 magazines & a book.
7 19 TUESDAY Very wet dreary day. Very quiet. Night Gas shells. 20 WEDNESDAY Rain in morn till 11 am. Cleared off about noon remainder of day fine & bright. W.Wind. Art active 10 pm Left Post 11 pm Slightly wounded. Shell. Sent to CCS after inoculation. 21 THURSDAY 7 am Arr No. CCS. Wound dressed - had bath - turned in & slept soundly all day & night. Offensive by Fritz commenced. 22 FRIDAY Rose 8 am. Had wash. Wrote to Mrs Parsons after wounds dressed. Afternoon wrote home & Gburn. Enjoying a spell. 23 SATURDAY Do. 24 SUNDAY Wrote some letters, reading etc. 25 MONDAY Lazy life reading etc. 26 TUESDAY Do 27 WEDNESDAY Do 28 THURSDAY Same 29 GOOD FRIDAY Same 30 SATURDAY Nothing fresh 31 EASTER DAY Went to Hosp. Church. 11 am & 3 pm. Enjoyed service by Canadian Padre. Volunteered to give blood if required APRIL 1 MONDAY Had a bit of fun in No. 10 ward. Caught "Uncle" the orderly properly. Helping in ward a bit. 2 TUESDAY Went in car to No. 10 CCS. Blood tested - & passed. Awaiting the chance.
8 3 WEDNESDAY Wrote letter to Btn to get my letters sent in Light jobs & reading. Evac took place. 4 THURSDAY Rain & mist all day. 5 FRIDAY Start painting No. 4 Ward. 6 SATURDAY Same L.D. having good time. 7 SUNDAY Church - & reading. 8 MONDAY Painting No TUESDAY Off Messines comm wounded coming in. Fin painting ward WEDNESDAY Busy day S.B. 11 THURSDAY Busy day S.B. 12 FRIDAY S.B. wounded CCS. Afternoon received word evac. Busy day. Hot weather. 13 SATURDAY Evac CCS all day. Train journey arr Etaples late at night. 14 SUNDAY Anniversary of sailing from Aussie. Etaples very windy & dusty. Awaiting orders walk around. 15 MONDAY Arr Base Haivre 16 TUESDAY Being equipped Med ex etc. 17 WEDNESDAY Paid 80 fcs. 18 THURSDAY Leave to Havre. Good time. 19 FRIDAY Left for Calais as conducting NCO with party of PB men.
9 20 SATURDAY Rep to A.V.Cps met Bob Farrall, J Rigg & Fred Ward. Had good yarn of old times. 21 SUNDAY Leave to Calais had good time with Sgt Scott 53 rd. Stayed Hotel Metropol. 22 MONDAY Left C for H 5.30 pm. 23 TUESDAY Arr H pm 24 WEDNESDAY Went pictures evening. Fatigues. Concert by Sons of Guns. Good. 25 THURSDAY Anzac day Comm service Cinema. Sports in afternoon. Met Coleman Play in Cinema Tom Maher company good time. 26 FRIDAY Wrote Ernie 27 SATURDAY Wrote Edie wet day. 28 SUNDAY Church at YMCA in morning. Good Lantern lecture by Padre Gault in evening. 29 MONDAY Nothing to report 30 TUESDAY On leave to Le Havre had a good day with Pte Warner 54 th. Saw sports programme in Central YMCA. Arr in camp 9pm MAY 1 WEDNESDAY Quiet. Pictures in evening - & concert. 2 THURSDAY Same as above. 3 FRIDAY Lantern lecture by Padre Gault. 4 SATURDAY On fatigue at I.M.S. with party of 10. Concert in evening (lantern lecture on W.Aust rather) by Mr O'Connor of Perth. 5 SUNDAY
10 On Guard at 40 Stationary Hosp. Rain all day. Wrote to Blighty. Fire at Soon put out. 6 MONDAY Came off Guard at 40 Stn Hosp. Rainy day. Went pictures. 7 TUESDAY Rain again sent P.C. to Syd Moncrieff Jean Cady & wrote letter to Stan McDowell, M.C. & to Parsons. Played draughts to pass time. Went Pictures & concert in even. 8 WEDNESDAY Cloudy but dry Tug of war practice in afternoon training to pull "yanks" at forthcoming sports Good team under selection. Went pictures evening with Leabeater, Goodwin & Sloan. 9 THURSDAY Very nice day. Warm sunshine reminding one of N.S.W. Seated on side of road reading "Australia today". Went to pictures in Con. Comp Cinema & heard good concert afterwards (Mates. Pte Geddes & Thomas). 10 FRIDAY Lovely day In afternoon played cricket match bet 3 rd & 5 th Div. won by 19 runs went with party led by Padre Gault to Duc. D Harcourts chateau & grounds Beautiful Beech wood & flowers. Good view. Arr camp at 9 pm after a merry march through Harfleur. Chateau D. Orchaise. 11 SATURDAY Another good day Umpired cricket match in afternoon. Went to pictures with Gus Duddle & heard concert in evening. 12 SUNDAY Quiet but nice day. Writing to Mother (Mother's day). Wonder how they all are today. 13 MONDAY 14 TUESDAY 15 WEDNESDAY & 18 SATURDAY Cricket, duties, pictures, guards, pickets etc & concert 16 THURSDAY & 17 FRIDAY Usual routine. Very hot days. 19 SUNDAY Service in YMCA 20 MONDAY Training for sports tug of war 21 TUESDAY 22 WEDNESDAY Met Barney Flannigan. Usual routine
11 23 THURSDAY 24 FRIDAY 25 SATURDAY 26 TRINITY SUNDAY Went to Havre had a swim in the surf with Arnie Leabeater 27 MONDAY 28 TUESDAY 29 WEDNESDAY 30 THURSDAY Went to Yank sports at Etretat had good day & great fun coming back per transport car. Lost tug of war. 31 FRIDAY Left A.I.B.D on draft. Met Clive, Mr Brien & saw Geo Duddle fine day. Hot. Met Cpl Booth JUNE 1 SATURDAY Arr A.D.R.W. 2 SUNDAY Good rest. Hot day 3 MONDAY 4 TUESDAY 5 WEDNESDAY 7am left R.W. for march up Good weather. Picquet. 6 THURSDAY Contd journey good weather. 7 FRIDAY 30 SUNDAY no entries 1918 JULY 1 MONDAY - 4 THURSDAY no entries 4 THURSDAY: Killed Battle of Hamel.
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