Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/286/1 - 1914 - 1918 - Part 10

11 NOVEMBER 1915

THURSDAY

Anzac Book

A Co 21 Bn.

have not returned

Substituted b/pr

No 316 pte Young J.V.

A Coy.

1915 NOVEMBER 12

FRIDAY

Rising Sun

2nd Consignment Paper

6 pces.

per Archimedes 11/1/17

Folio 2462. 2484.

Pro No. 3056. 3142

M.F.O. H.Q. I.G.C.

3rd Do. Sent from London

15 Jan.

Via Mil. F.O

Southhampton

To G.O.C. 1st Anzac HQrs
BEF

13 NOVEMBER  1915
SATURDAY
F Burgess          )
J Ashbee            )
Barney Wright )
2 Bn HAC.
7 I.B.D.
14 Camp HAC Draft
Harfleur
Havre.

Pte AF Burgess
744 8 HAC
att APD Base Unit
√ Claims Branch
B.E.F. France

Lt A.M. Murdoch
C Coy 37^th Bn.
√ Murdoch's Brother.
Lt Ivan M.
√ 8^th Field Bn  √

1915 NOVEMBER 14
Sunday
Ted Collis
H.Q. 116 Heavy Bty
(nco in/c. Dump. H.A.G
Quarry)

Pte G. Leyshon White
Field Hosp. 2nd Aust. Inf. Base.
√ c/o Army Post Office
France.

Lester Lawrence,
√ Mission des Corresp. de Guerre,
Noailles, Oise.

15 NOVEMBER  1915
MONDAY
Claude's Kit.
LE NIEPPE.  Mme Pucelle
de Launoy
Rue Damoiselle
Nieppe,
1 Black White Kit bag marked with
Claude's name.
(Left end of June)
1 of Rush's with small
folding bed tied in - at
same place.
Diagram - see original document

1915 NOVEMBER 16
TUESDAY
Thresher & Glenny
152 - 153 Strand.
water proof drill trench gloves
√ 14/6

√ Bickers & Son
Charles St
Haymarket
London.

Joan Harvey

17 NOVEMBER  1915
WEDNESDAY
Mrs Ramsay,
Hotel Champs Elysée,
√ 5 Rue Balzac
near Arc de Triomphe
(Rt hand side of Champs Elysee,
Hotel on Left hand side of Rd)

Maj. J.G. Prior,
o/c Anzac Bakeries
No 2 B.S.D.

1915 NOVEMBER 18
THURSDAY
Lawn & Alder
Golden Lane
√ City.
for boots etc.

T.E. Sedgwick,
√ 33 Oriental St.,
Poplar. E

Alec R. Wilkie
SMH

J. Masefield
Hill Top,
Boar's Hill,

√ Oxford.
Diagram  - see original document

19 NOVEMBER  1915
FRIDAY
Will Dyson
30 Glebe Place
√ (corner Brammerton St)
Chelsea
3 streets from Town Hall
paper Kings Rd

Claude Thompson.
√ 164^th Inf. Bde H.Q.

1915 NOVEMBER 20
SATURDAY
S.M.H.,
Fleet House,
58 Fleet St., EC
City 6250.

Ancienne Maison
R Halipré
Envoi de Maurele Brabant Succr.
19 Rue de la Grosse Horloge
Rouen.
Jacks Cherubs.

Muir Esq.
√ 82 Victoria St.
S.W.

21 NOVEMBER  1915
Sunday
L/Cpl. Vernon J. Wickins
2086 "C" Coy ^15 Bn k Lone Pine Aug 6 1916.
Mother Mrs M Wickins, Cambria,
32 Wellington St.

North Hobart.Tas.

Pte CS Bennett. √
1909, (prevly 1664)
16 Sept. 1916 reported  
wounded,                             
25/8/17                                      
Reported w.                          
& missing on                         
18/8/16. sd to                         
have bn wd &                        

taken back by a
cousin & old school
mate to safety for
treatment.  Nothing heard since.  Last wrote 9/8/16
In A Coy, 8 Bn. Mother T H Bennett
76 Melbourne Rd
North Geelong
Vic.

[*Still missing

Herbert Russell

"Lawn House"

Lipson Vale

Plymouth.

Still missing 

21/6/17*]

L Hewett,
√ 27 Carrol St.,
N. Melbourne.

Alf. Reid, Kirkwall,
Royston Ave.

√ E Malvern, Melb.
Photo of S.bs.

Pte James Strong √ No 166 A Co. (28) Bn.
missing 28/29 July - Francis D Strong Esq
Bonniecot, Regents Pk Rd, 
Southampton
Reported k.

1915 NOVEMBER 22
MONDAY
√ Miss Myrtle Meggy
11 Trebovir Rd
[*54 Bn*]
Earls Court
SW
Pte Cooley 11057 AAMC details son of Mrs
Cooley, mothers old servant. 9lbs cake
just sent him
by his mother
to 130 Horseferry
Rd. AIF Base
Post Office

Pte Walter Garry - No 4798
59^th Bn. 15 Inf. Bde.
(Mate: Pte James Sharples 4904
59 Bn. 15 Inf. Bde.)
for Annie Garry -
Mother. Outtrim,
S. Gippsland,
Vic.
July 19 hit
in abdomen
not seen
later.

3701 L/Cpl. E.J. Cannan D Coy. 6^th Bn.
D. 14 Sept. at 17 cas. [shorthand = clearing hospital].
Father S.J. Cannon -
"Courier Office"
Ballarat.

23 NOVEMBER  1915
TUESDAY
Pte Claude Keenan, 16 Bn
missing Bullecourt Ap 11
write to Cousin Miss CM Hughes.
9 Porchester Terrace, Hyde Pk, W.2.

Graham Bisdee
√ 40^th (Tasmn) Bn.

for H. Leslie McWhinney, 2 Kingsley St.,
Camberwell Vic.
re No 2415, Pte. N B McW.  
(brother.) B Coy, 23rd Bn. √ 6 Bde.
? Bomber. Missing July 25.
Were any prisoners.

 [*Still missing*]

for Mrs H J Thompson. Sandringham
Barraba, N.S.W.
re son. Cpl J.S.V. Thompson,
2883/A now of 9th Bn. (C.S.M.)
Late 25th Bn

Is his grave marked?
Where did he die?

Pte W.J. Johnson - 3827 D Coy 2 Bn.
MP. Grave - if known - photo. 24 Gen
Hosp. Etaples.
Wife Mrs W J Johnson "Robertson"
Macquarie Rd, Auburn. Syd.
& Mrs Caldwell (sister), Leban, Dudley St, Bondi Syd

1915 NOVEMBER 24
WEDNESDAY
Lieut. H.K. Robinson, C.F.A.,
√ 21st Can. Howitzer Bty,
7^th Bde C.F.A.

√ Press Tour.
Col. Kidman,
Kings way H.
Kings Way.

Missing July 9.
Pte F.F. McLaren
D Coy 60 Bn 15 Bde 1st Wave with Grenadiers.
Mother. Mrs McL. 186 Gatehouse St.
Parkville, Melb.
Devitt

w him
lost him at
/ stop

√ J.D. Fortescue
(Kings Librarian)
15 Brompton Sq.
S.W.

16 Bn √ New UK.
5386. Pte J W
McCarthy - Missing
Aug 31 1916.
Mother Mrs H.C. McC.
Prospect, John St. North Fremantle, WA
Belongings Bible etc?
just joined Aug 16.

1.2.6. 9. 15. (also
where ws
walsh)
several
23. 32. 58

E.T. Cooley - Somme, Tasm. Field Amb.
(write to the Pater or Mater).

25 NOVEMBER  1915
THURSDAY
for Mervyn Chinner - Govt Reporting Dept - Parlt H. Adelaide:
Lt. Eric Harding Chinner B or C Coy 32 Bn A.I.F. k. July 20. 

[*turn back 

see last 

page*]
Lt T.P. Hagan, (Missing July 20, 32 Bn A.I.F.) ws not brought in - was he buried.
- Pte Murphy
Sponsor

15^th Training Batn. Pte TW. Walker - 58 Bn (Late 2873. 6 Reinfts 23 Bn) 15 Bde, 5 Divn. 
Fortnight ago still with Tng Bn.

(for Milly Walker, c/o Mother, Belgium)

Note Baker Corpl 14 Bn. 5th Regt
Missing (Dardanelles)

Wilson Padre 25 Bn.
 Father E. Baker, builder Margate, Eng

Pte F W Bagley - 2214 B Coy
6 Reinfts - 15 Bn.
Son of Mrs F.S.B. Braintree Essex Eng:

Has not written since in [shorthand - France].

Maj AJS. Hutchinson 58 Bn. k. July 20. Father
Rev. A E H -, Rectory Hamilton Tasmania

2849 Pte W J. Lowe 9 Bn.
Lewis M.g. Sectn.
Uncle Wm Clayton
3 Co-op. Colleges
Poolsbrook
W Chesterfield Derbyshire Eng.
Not heard from lately

[*9th Batt
Russell*]

816 Pte Walter Phillips 4 Bn 1st Bde
missing Aug 6-9. (B Coy)

[*Mrs Phillips, No 1 Oak Collage,
Tennysons Rd, Freshwater C of W Eng*]

1915 NOVEMBER 26

FRIDAY
Pte Fredk Davies, 4934,
A Coy, 53 Bn. 14 Bde.
Missing July 19. 1916.
Miss F. Davies
10 Hebb St,
Britannia Square
Worcester, Eng.

Pte A Skinner 1433. C. Coy. 1 Bn. A.I.F. k. July 23-15
(Father James Sk., 77 Maitland St, Dunedin).

(Brother Sergt. 2/5^th
10 Bty, NZFA.)

Sergt Maj. Charles Matters
6^th Bn. k. early in August.
Write to Elsie Masson
Chanomy.
The University Melb
Melbourne.

or c/o Miss M. Wrigall
St Margarets
151 Alma Road,

E St. Kilda
Melb.

[*54 Bn
See Letter*]

27 NOVEMBER  1915
SATURDAY
Win.
9645
Kensington.

Pte F.G. Amos
3619 D Coy 18 Bn.
√ 5 Bde.
TB 32

Bdier F. Carpenter
Internat^l HQrs
101 Queen Vict. St ,
√ EC.

1915 NOVEMBER 28
Sunday
Mrs Malcolm Ross.
61 Marloes Rd
√ Kensington [shorthand - ?]
(862 Western-)

P.L. Maze
√ 22 Place Vendome
Paris.
Aunt Katie,
106 Queens Gate S.W.
Kensington 645.

F.C. Darley
H.M.A.S
Australia
[shorthand].