Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/63/1 - October - November 1916 - Part 2

68     9

JANUARY, 1917  

11 THURSDAY [11-354]

Hillary Law Sittings Begin

1698 Arrival of Peter the Great in England

 

/ population of

immigrants flowing in,

shd alter the characteristics

 o / country. They  

 

12 FRIDAY [12-353]

1915. Heavy Fighting near Soissons

 

cd repopulate it by

immigrants but they

wanted it populated by

Australians. They thought

Australia had given

 

13 SATURDAY [13-352]

1916. Fall of Cettigne

S.R. 8. 3, S. S. 4. 14

 

Enough to /war without

forcing those who didn't

wish to come.

 

The Great Auk.

Unfortunately this bird became extinct

in Europe in 1844. It's extraordinarily

small wings unfitted it for flight,

but it had great diving and swimming

powers to compensate. If we want

to realise the build of this bird we

may compare it with the Razorbill and

the Guillemots, both near relations,

though these have larger wings. The

size of the body has been compared to that of a goose.

 

10

JANUARY, 1917

14 Sunday [17-351]

2nd after Epiphany

Matins. - Isiah 55. Matthew 8, 18

Evensong.- Isiah 57 or 61. Acts 8,26

1742. Halley, astronomer, died.

 

They knew what the

war ^ was like , now, & they

were not going to ask 

 

15 MONDAY [15-350]

1759. British Museum opened

 

others to come into it

agst their will.

Young ws going to wait

will Sunday, but he went

 

16 TUESDAY [16-349]

1915. Defeat of the Turks by the Russians

( Last Quarter, 11.42 a.m.

 

away on Saturday. The 

23 & 21 Bns, which he

saw, were almost

unanimously agst

 

17 WEDNESDAY [127-348]

1885. Arabs defeated by General Stewart at Abou-Klea

 

him- 

They are funny

beggars- but they have

 

68     11

JANUARY, 19

18 THURSDAY [18-347]

1871 King of Prussia proclaimed German Emperor

 

a lot of sense. It can't

be called a selfish

attitude- anyway-

on the way up

 

19 FRIDAY [19-346]

1915. Germans drop bombs on Yarmouth

 

White told me tt as

a youngster for 3 years

he got up at 6am & 

worked at his own

 

20 SATURDAY [20-345]

1779. David Garrick, actor, died

S. R. 7.57, S. S. 4.25

 

education until 8.

& set to it again

at 9p.m. & worked

 

The Winter Jasmine

Our gardens need not be without winter

flowers. Among these is Jasmine nudicaule.

It's flowers are yellow. The word

nudicaule means naked stem, the flowers

being borne after the leaves are shed and

before the next ones are produced. If 

branches in bud be cut and brought into 

the house the flowers will expand in water in a warm room. 

12

JANUARY, 1917

21 Sunday [21-344]

3rd after Epiphany

Matins.-Isiah 62. Matthew 12, 22.

Evensong- Isiah 65, or 66. Acts 13, to 26

1568, Miles Coverdale, translator of the Bible, died

 

till midnight.

His father had been as

old army officer & 

 

22 MONDAY [22-343]

1915. German air raid over Dunkirk

 

came to irelan

Australia & took up 

land in Queensland

& became a very

 

23 TUESDAY [23-342]

1857. Indian Mutiny broke out

• New moon 7.40a.m.

 

wealthy man. But

drought or some

misfortune made 

him suddenly very

 

24 WEDNESDAY [24-341]

1915. British victory in the North Sea; the Blucher sunk

 

poor. He was a

magnificent fellow

of 6 ft 3- & he

 

68     13

JANUARY, 1917

25 THURSDAY [25-340]

Conversion of S. Paul

1915. H.M.S. " Gazelle" torpedoed in the North Sea

 

never once grumbled at

his fate, He just turned

his face to the journey

again & set out grimly, 

 

26 FRIDAY [ 26-339]

1915. Heavy Fighting at La Bassee

 

without a word, on the

long uphill road. 

Three or four times he 

was broken; & so it

 

27 SATURDAY [27-338]

1915. Heavy fighting at Perthes

S. R. 7.49, S. S. 4.37

 

came tt little White 

had to go to a normal 

school - a state school.

 

Beetles.

Beetles are natures scavengers; they

clear away, and in some cases bury, dead

animal and vegetable matter. Beetles

belong to the Coleoptera order of insects,

the word signifying sheathed wings. The

stiff hard wings are called elytra, and the

hinder transparent wings are hidden

beneath them when not in use. There are

more than a hundred and thirty thousand

different species. Among the British

species are Tiger Beetles, Stag Beetles, Burying Beetles etc.

 

14

JANUARY, 1917

28 Sunday [ 28-337]

4th after Epiphany

Matins. Job 27. Matthew 15, 21

Evensong.- Job 28, or 29 .Matthew 17, to 16

1915. Heavy fighting in the Vosges and Alsace

 

until he was 15.

HIs elder brother-a

fine chap- gave him

 

29 MONDAY [29-336]

1915. Heavy fighting near Nieuport

 

a years schooling at

a ^ Brisbane private school, Eton

-run by an old Eton

Master -paying his

 

30 TUESDAY [30-335]

1915. Renewed fighting at La Bassee

 

fees for him. White left

with a [?]2 prize for shorthand

& never cost his father

a penny from tt moment

 

31  WEDNESDAY [31-334]

The insurance herein contained is not valid until your name has been

registered. 

1915. Heavy fighting between Arras and Rheims

 

68     15

FEBRUARY, 1917

1 THURSDAY [32-333]

1915. Sergeant O'Leary won the V.C. at Cuinchy

 

He went to a bank-

getting [?] 50 a year at first

& later ( when they sent 

him up country) [?] 120. 

 

2 FRIDAY [33-332]

Purification of B.V.M. Candlemas.

1915. Turks defeated on the Suez Canal

 

For 3 years he stuck at

this slavery - under a

hard manager. Of

 

3 SATURDAY [34-331]

1881. Thomas Carlyle, writer, died

S. R. 7.39, S. S. 4.50

 

his monthly [?] 10, [?] 3

was sent to his mother-

a sweet Irish woman who

 

The Glow Worm

These little creatures, that give out

a phosphorescent light in the dark

are to be numbered among our British

beetles. The females have no wings,

neither elytra, not transparent ones, 

but are far more luminous than the

males. This family is most numerous

in South America, but it is also found almost the world over. 

 

16

FEBRUARY, 1917

4 Sunday [35-330]

Septuagesima

Matins.- Genesis 1 and 2, to 4. Rev. 21, to 9

Evensong.- Genesis 2,4, or Job 38. Rev. 21, 9 to 22, 6 

1945. Fighting near Albert

 

with his father faces

without a murmur all

tt life outback means

 

5 MONDAY [36-329]

1852. Victoria Cross instituted

 

to a woman- [ there

had only been one

shepherds wife there to

help her when little 

 

6 TUESDAY [37-328]

 Charles II died.

 

White was born. A delicate

woman- & yet she

managed to pull 

through all these rough

 

7 WEDNESDAY [38-327]

1856. Annexation of Oude

O Full Moon, 3.28a.m.

 

times & hardships well &

bravely] [?]3 went to

 

68    17

FEBRUARY, 1917

8 THURSDAY [39-326]

Half Quarter Day

1587. Mary Queen of Scots executed.

 

her; [?]4 went to the

schoolmaster whom White

got to help him of

a night; (I am not 

 

9 FRIDAY [40-325]

1915. Bombardment of Soissones, Furnes and Ypres

 

sure it and On th-e

remaining [?] 3 a

month he had to

clothe feed & lodge

 

10 SATURDAY [ 41-324]

1763. Canada ceded to Great Britain

S. R. 7.27, S. S. 5.3

 

himself; and yet

at the end of the 3 

years, when he cut

slavery & went into the

 

The Rooks.

When you see or hear a flight 

of the great black birds you

probably speak of them as

Crows, even though you may

rightly term their nesting place 

a rookery. Rooks eat corn and other vegetable matter, but also

some carnivorous food. The 

smallest member of the Corvus family in Great Britain is the Jackdaw.

 

18

FEBRUARY, 1917

11 Sunday [42-323] 

Sexagesima

Matins.- Genesis 3. Matthew 23, 13

Evensong.-Genesis 6, or 8. Acts 26

1915. Russians retreat from the Masurian Lakes.

 

Royal Australian

Artillery, he had

[?] 25 saved with

 

12 MONDAY [43-322]

1915. Allied air raid on Belgian Coast

 

which to buy his

uniform.

Well - with

a history behind him

like that, no wonder

 

13 TUESDAY [44-321]

1692. Massacre of Glencoe

 

old White has done

magnificently, he 

loathed the bank work

-hated it's dreadful

 

14 WEDNESDAY [45-320]

Valentine's Day

1915. French  air raid on Metz

 

monotony & absence

of intellectual fodder

or of any sort of promise.