12th July 1915 (incl. 13th & 14th)

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Wrote a huge letter home

finished it today

Food good but

very moorish.

Over 300 beds in

this Hospital,

which is a big

brick building

previously

built for a timber

working shed & a piano

is here for our use.

Occasionally a tryer

gets on it & he is

immediately counted

out. A good

man receives

yells of more

we want more

& so on. Patients

though slightly

wounded & sick

can make a

noise if

necessary

READ & LISTEN to ALL of the 1915 DIARY

Studio portrait of 16 Private (Pte) Frederick Purton writing a letter home.

The inset into the top left corner of the photograph is of an unidentified woman. A plumber from Melbourne, Victoria, Pte Purton embarked with the 5th Battalion from Melbourne aboard HMAT Orvieto on 21 October 1914. He was discharged in London on 25 June 1919.

Reference: Australian War Memorial

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