Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/63/1 - October - November 1916 - Part 5

Conflict:
First World War, 1914–18
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  • Documents and letters
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40 white had sketched forme Well we rawid p about a score them of + locked tim ap at day & parade them an Eveniy & old Wifeams came along Ix were a perfect ueet respectid lot - I they had had not to eald dont poor she old witlams had dine by that time lined fot etal well so serviewe addes 4 the &e the fourty and peech to the Shadnever for set the scene Te oul light we had was a fliekern candle wh was ld Fergeant thy
te light cer & oft 86 Williams Stood up there frond of thim. He told what magnificit work the dlone. What hardsheps had the had gove to the Endi promising them to be ad see to no charge ed be laid aged them o wh any farm Idhappin to them Then he thave thim all si a bi cay motol Cory that we Even wh 4e wt goi to hand the b pairs & flof the t toe t t to h
46 d te o except Tho when fo AP.M. ofth tocke Ihad 18 the there up down in the Iroom sna came up n na X the to to a fie to Geltin were abent + 9 cle house t t 4 taken Lome Straw the atlesses were Wh o be piles 6 8 doo up ago it fire b set door down the t the ask it done 4 41 tld we C
618 43 ou they 50 2at 6 Ce beef th 5 do well wha you fet Expect frand t e0 This the 282 400 did to hat hotel t ate o e on 40 Wetha + or what rea i tter la Ob 4 ble th th it d fter lont. ye 15 an t Sr 0 id I knew vorce of his to the is n had th It hes lf establishes smitths firm Fend for as his days probably the rest
44 any thin are do wel 68 Sot you Don help to cn oorlearen Swith could in 2E sations As 5d abhs t hee ap a to Smith think of you what do But the the not 2t that hint officers Butish There are letons t 206 lo ge who witEnstrate deadh Spirit. Bazle Ls that in if there 00 8 Clean 4 h ws Leanin one t le Viller Indtor farage the D.C. ThA. Engli on Bocag him in 45 can up oficer What do your a rage. ai making 6 fellows
45 ans wo 4 latring 9 know Sd fardin the derty £ 190 a the it apg. ang to Sir, &be Say ✓ other plent but ther are 6 Ldthe Lety troops 7 it w5 Htto Oh ar event chap the Engacs tin it eat a white ii Loreen 20anzac fhe saming here tas Angas eds th 1 am gertain this sontoptai we Lon in Sou Aug ac La6n There about ther herse camped it lk + in tat night th n did- one of 12 5 in 2 th to 8 te it
46 Poay brtters en latimes 4 as thances are the billets you dig if with the twopd the British find them t no To filly had lefoten decenty clean person od to But with it all near them Light whateer inhe had foro a. way B0 by i to speak lope 9 Iwent alom en there tell still him findi 208 te aS him s0) but he are Some If tuae aen fcalons of us undloubled mouite. Smith told as officer Another fce his way today tried to the Anstiation of the past contralling potice he who ear roads trafic on accordance en 2 The fout
to 47 to instructions, had stopped him from going in I appositedirecty tot traffic. This ws very erretation no doubt, bidyf a I strict rule without wh the setting of supplias up to I pont ad be impossible? it i the most aigetly required just now. The officer (I think he ws a major) turned on the traffic man: You dawned Anzacs, he sd. I know you. They is sent you back here because yours no bloody good up at the port. (it sounds to me as thos it ws the potice, he ws speaking of - not the whole corps. Anyway some of these ill-brid oficers - other always are some w amongst the best - show their fealousy of us in very foolish
48 language becase t mist anow that de meay ar te superiors at filt I must say I think in this case old Lmik; who is atways on the defensive for Austiatia probable got the wrong idea the officer was abusing his potice & not the anzaco who he mus have known, were at the fon The three fine days, wh are the shibbolel nowsdays. never seem to come. There o some baguences amougt the staf of the Corps as to what we are filting for. They some of them say it is to hel Roumania - we cannot leave of here until Roumanis 15 safe On the other band others I have heard speaking of our having to get
43 the Bapanie Ridge before winter because it is a good position to dy in on Eiten we shd do that as else we shd survey on present hs very carefully find a good conforted front & dis in there. Mardach told me some time ago, after his day with Haig, that thw we the question t we cxarcising H.B. then Our fellows tought be wd be down here for eenter He seeied the to think there come Fort of9 att Crievance in this - but that right not 15 better This country will be to wenter an than the Epres lowland You can dis good trenches here & the Austiclic Leven the materials for shoring up

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White had sketched for me.
“Well we rounded up
about a score of them &
locked them up all day
& paraded them in /
evening & old Williams
came along. They were
a perfectly quiet & respectable
lot- & they had had nothing
to eat or drink, poor chaps-
t Old Williams had dined
by that time - dined jolly
well-
 

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