Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/38C/1 - Notebook - Part 4

Bundles of 

Clothing.

Bands

Tools, axe handles,

 

Engn a Artill. comes in for tools

Eng. happens to be there

 

[* Old race course *]

Dial sight lost. (importance of

officers & N.C.Os)

150 waterproof sheets

          ____

Have to give them & investigate afterwards

cant put gun out of action.

 

£10,000,000

Everyone thinks ought to be gunners

in his case

[* War started

mobilisation *]

British back down

Lost

[[?Alld]] in war ?

waggons  on one wheel 

 

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Nucleus 5. & a few storemen taken on in camp.

Chap who Reg. work outside regt. & a bit

interesting. Gen coming out of hospital.

Sergt. hears of them. So & so wants to come on from L.H.

 So & so turns up. Looks at iron horseshoes. 'Dreadful

bad iron, Sir:" Turns out he ws a chemist. "Wd

you like me to analyse the castor oil?"

X taken on (L.H.) from stat. hospital made an issue

to hospital of a lot of rope got for artillery. The

hosp. gave a receipt. When D.a.D.o.s found

it he insisted xxx Hosp. ought never to have been

supplied - its a Base depot unit - light horseman

seeing he had made a mistake cleared out & 

didnn't come back. However they found him &

he has turned out an excellent man.

And the Hospital gave the rope back!

 

[* Ord. off *]

 

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Scraggy lot of  - half of them from P lot.

In Napoleons stables 180 fr. x 40 ft. very lofty. room 20 ft arnd.

Dwl remount goes round & picks eyes out, swearing all time.

A.D. of Remounts gets deadly sick at seeing eyes picked out.

Huge draught [[shorthand ?horse]]. They'll h. to tho for A.S.L.

Nice looking lot are either private [[shorthand]] names & ticket

or Veterinary mobile section. Three spheres

Collecting. Mobile. Base.

          _____

Arabs. o son of a misbegotten etc etc.

Pickets too loose. Horse wandering round with end of rope throws

second horse down. Finally half a doz. [[shorthand]

           ___

 

Remount

Smithies day etc)

filling up w Arab

Mortality

[[shorthand]]

 

[* Remounts*]

 

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[* A.S.C. ?*]

 

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see. order After DO32. (300)

Coy signallers etc. 700 & 2 men w Coy commn : / man w each platoon commn.

have to note positns of units

 

2 yrs ago when a C.O. was going out for the day

he cd ask for 2 signallers - & they'd go.

One wd lead his horse & the other wd

carry his lunch.

 

[* Signallers *]

 

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[* Generals *]

 

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Jan 12.1915

Birdwds [[shorthand]] warned to avoid

[shorthand]

Printed article pinned to page

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a Specialty.

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Phone us for Duplicate Papers, &c.

From   BULLETIN

Address   28 JAN SYDNEY,

Date       [[NEW]] SOUTH WALES

"E.D.": Bean's work is being availed of

by newspapers far less than was expected

by the Government when he was appointed.

The chief reason is that parsons, whom the 

Government is already paying up to £960

per annum for accompanying the expeditionary

force, have entered into competition

with the official war correspondent. The

cleric, who has rushed off on a colonel's

salary, is able to supply regular copy at a 

cheaper rate than that at which a paper can

get Bean's stuff, and at a tenth the cost of

copy may be amateurish, but the journal

publishing it can claim exclusiveness for the

drivel, and may head it "From our own war

correspondent." The writer knows at least

one metropolitan daily now doing this, in a

State where Bean's matter is not seeing

print. Meanwhile old hands at the journalistic

game have been pushed out of their jobs

by the war, and the A.J.A. has had to

collect a benevolent fund to help them over

stormy times.

 

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[* Parsons*]

 

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Take a simple rule - marching in step.

E.g. marching in step - so that they know exactly

how far the column can go will stretch & what pace it

can go.

 

Another: Every order must go through the proper

superior. If it doesnt, you may get cross

orders i.e. Pte A may have one order from

Sergt. X another from Lieut. Y & another

from Gen. Z. He may obey the superior's order -

but then the Sergt. & the Lieut. are probably away

trusting that the Sergt A is doing the job they

gave him

 

Riding Baggage Waggon Horses: At N.Z. parade when

[[shorthand]] hasten [[shorthand]] train was [[shorthand]] trot, Australians

([mid?] team) broke into orderly trot. N.Z (driven) were all over

place - one  bolted etc. Horses plunging.

 

[* Military Rules *]

 

 

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Pathan in Chitral campgn who jumped on top of

Sawyer & signalled to Brit. Battery shelling it: Miss high

miss left etc [[shorthand]] shell [[shorthand]] stomach.