Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/34/1 - May - June 1915 - Part 1

AWM38
Official History,
1914-18 War: records of C E W Bean,
Official Historian.
 

Diaries and Notebooks

Item number: 3DRL606/34/1

Title: Notebook, May - June 1915
Consists of shorthand notes and diagrams.

_{AWM38-3DRL606/34/1}
 

AWM 38  3 DRL 606 ITEM 34 [1]
Notes A
34
See that R. Recs
have bn
transcribed
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[*No 1 [symbols]  P.Kodak. Edgar.}*]
 

Original DIARY No. 34

DIARIES AND NOTES OF C.E.W. BEAN
CONCERNING THE WAR OF 1914 - 1918

The use of these diaries and notes is subject to conditions laid down in the terms
of gift to the Australian War memorial. But apart from these terms, I wish the
following circumstances and considerations to be brought to the notice of every
reader and writer who may use them.

These writings represent only what at the moment of making them I believed to be
true.  The diaries were jotted down almost daily with the object of recording what
was then in the writer's mind. Often he wrote them when very tired and half-asleep;
also, not infrequently what he believed to be true was not so - but it does not
follow that he always discovered this, or remembered to correct the mistakes when
discovered.  Indeed, he could not always remember that he had written them.

These records should therefore, be used with great caution, as relating only what
their author, at the time of writing believed.  Further, he cannot, of course vouch
for the accuracy of statements made to him by others and here recorded.  But he
did try to ensure such accuracy by consulting, as far as possible, those who had
seen or otherwise taken part in the events.  The constant falsity of second-hand
evidence (on which a large proportion of war stories are founded) was impressed
upon him by the second or third day of the Gallipoli campaign, notwithstanding that
those who passed on such stories usually themselves believed them to be true. All
second-hand evidence herein should be read with this in mind.
16 Sep., 1946.                   C.E.W. BEAN
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May 27.5.11: fast fire by our [symbols]
NZ o / 2 [symbols]
Howitzer [symbols]
9 o'c New gun to the N. firing on trawlers
After 5 shots hit the [symbols]
en. [symbols]
11.5 2 destroyers [symbols] Doris [symbols]
Exq [symbols]
3.15 [symbols]
C. Smiths letter
Swimming race for [symbol] IV [symbols] at 4.40
When Y is D [symbols]
Gen [symbols]
5pm 7 OS  32/3 [symbols]
9pm [symbols]
 

[symbols]
Caseys story n. Howitzer.
Sniping [symbols]
guns [symbols]
[symbols]

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Sniper in Shrap. G.

B3 [symbols]

42' NZ [symbols]

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Patrol of 9th got 7 snipers
bayoneted 6 [symbols]
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Destroyer went out & basted
Gaba Tepe

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[*Q.E. fired 12 shots at Turks
Sat May 1. morning
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fired some in [symbols]
first [symbols]
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Tues May 4. Q.E.
ws [symbols] down South
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350 of 13^th
100 2nd  L.H.
[symbols] 15^th, 16^th, 13^th.
10^th L.H. in reserve at [[?]]
[symbols] Burings  [symbols]

[symbols] No 3 [symbols]
[symbols]

Theyre [symbols]

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Front of trench to [symbols]

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Shrap. [symbols]

3.20 mined by
Rushed it.
[[?]]
10.4.15 [symbols]
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" 5.30 [symbols]
our whole [symbols]
[symbols]
They [symbols]7.30
[symbols] sandbagged
[symbols] Capt Popes
We rushed it
Col. Burnage [symbols]
[symbols]

28^th [symbol] they blew in a tunnel
at 2.30

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Lt Little 15th [symbols]

Saw [symbols]

[symbols] hit.

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Maj Quinn  [symbols]
[symbols] shrapnel [symbols]
The were standing up 
Capt [[?Yeo]] 4th )
Lt Smith                )  [symbols]
Lt [[?]] Hall            )
Lt Sinclair              )
 

Percussion [symbols]
Cherry [symbols]
[symbols] saps
[symbols]
 

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Co Col Burnage
350 of 13th 
100 of 10th L.H.
Abt 3 am [symbols] om the 3rd
6 section right [symbols]
[5 lines of symbols]
[symbols] Col Burnage
[symbols] Tilney [symbols]

[symbols]

[symbols]
[symbols] Durrant [symbols]
[symbols] Chauvel [symbols]
[symbols] 1st end 4, 5, & 6 [symbols]

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At 6 [symbols]
At 6 [symbols]
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2 V6 [symbols] No 2 No 4

[symbols] 17 [symbols]
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5 [symbols] 13 L[symbols]

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