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28th August 1915 (incl. 29th August)




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It is very pitiful to hear some of the tales

of the chaps here. They’d make you cry,

fellows limping on a stick come

in with toothache malinger here

for weeks & weeks & make out their

lame, perhaps never been to the

front nor intend to go. I watched

O’Hara Wood playing tennis on

these courts today. He has been

wounded. A big crowd going

away from here booked for

Australia, today. Today I start

work in this place as a ward clerk

to give myself something to do,

If i continue this lazy life

doing nothing & worrying about

everything & not receiving

any mail from Home I

feel that in a very short time I’’ll

be insane, so I volunteer for this

job. Little or nothing to save keep the

ward book & check the roll every

night with ward Sgt. Caught

a bonza cold. Wind becoming a

gale all day long. Nose won’t

stop bleeding. Things are not to good.







Captain P. O'Hara Wood of Australia,

playing in the London Championship Tennis Tournament at Queen's Club, Baron's Court.






For more information about Australia in World War I





Diary of an ANZAC soldier. A WWI diary found in 2022. One man's story, told 108 years later.

Lest we forget.

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