Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/104/1 - March - April 1918 - Part 8

Conflict:
First World War, 1914–18
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  • Documents and letters
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84 gite of standard awongst the Aushalian Stretcher. bearers & ambulance men on the Bonnebeke oad fiel ambulance horse wi a ws coming out full of patients when driver a corporal. was [so seared tohe got wa you hi & left it That doever shortly afterd exchanged into the infantry the standard 01 men cn ambalance made it necessar for him to seek other work & probb try & regain his good name. A private in Same aubalance had cu through canvas of way on Crawled through & got reins & dragged o horses out fo i. 4e H.C.Y Sof
firing much last night French Ir was down 5 codnot inform but they our Brd Dion what it meant also A 1ood dear fire ght. 86 The king visited australian Corps. 1 otherday, I hear. He told them, according to flover, to I Austrians were going to make peace next m onth (6r Aprel as cottack sugjests) The hospitable old Russek at Rollen court, (a man whom I have very much mesjudged at various times) sent reams upon reams (they lett we to English papers abt what a splendid theng it was of the king 0 radions how his words cheered inspireted his troops etc. Shis sort of they falls flat even w English troops now adays, or w many of them. This king is riglish a man; but othe one is p0o place for aman nowaday.
87 Ap4 The permans have allacked S. of soomme on a ecorps front and are in the wood (5. of Damel. wilkins wend down tere dom but Id see little except flastes our guas firing behind Hancet of a certain ant of nif. be fire cd. heard

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standard of xxxx duty amongst
the Australian stretcher-bearers 
& ambulance men.
On the Zonnebeke road
a field ambulance horse-waggon
ws coming out full of
patients when / driver,
a corporal, was so scared
tt he got off his waggon
& left it.
That driver shortly aftwds
exchanged into the infantry -
the standard o / men in /
ambulance made it necessary
for him to seek other work &
probly try & regain his good 
name. A private in /
same ambulance had cut
through / canvas of / waggon,
crawled through & got / reins
& dragged / horses out - &
got the D.C.M for it.
 

 

85
Much firing last night
down S. It was French
but they wd not inform
our 3rd Divn what it
meant.
A good deal of fire also
tonight.

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The King visited / Ausralian
Corps, / other day, I hear. He
told them, according to Glover,
tt / Austrians were going to make
peace next month (1st April -
as Cutlack suggests).
The hospitable old Russell,
at Rollencourt, (a man whom
I have very much misjudged
at various times) sent reams
upon reams (they tell me) to /
English papers abt what a splendid
thing it was of the King - &
how his xxxx ^gracious words cheered &
inspirited his troops etc. This
sort of thing falls flat even w /
English troops nowadays, or w
many of them. This king is
a man; but ^/English throne is ^a poor
place for a man nowadays.
 

 

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Ap 4. The Germans have
attacked S. of Somme
on a 2 Corps front and are
in the wood E. of Hamel.
__
Wilkins went down there
but cd see little ^doing except flashes
of our guns firing behind
Hamel; & a certain
amt of m.g. fire cd be
heard.





 

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