WAR DIARY
WAR DIARY
  • Home
  • WAR DIARY
  • About
    • About Sgt. Graham
    • J A Graham In Later Life
    • About Graham's Diary
    • About this Blog
    • About the 5th Light Horse
    • About usage and licensing
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Home
  • WAR DIARY
  • About
    • About Sgt. Graham
    • J A Graham In Later Life
    • About Graham's Diary
    • About this Blog
    • About the 5th Light Horse
    • About usage and licensing
  • Subscribe
  • Contact

21 April 1916

21/4/1916

0 Comments

 
This diary has been written for your benefit, Dad’s, Lil, Claud, Gus, Clyde and Vera's and as each days events has been entered my thoughts have always been with you all. That is why I have kept this diary going. Letters that I have received from you all have been most encouraging and I feel proud to belong to such a spartan family. I am glad to know that you take a pride in having Reg and I over here fighting instead of staying at home. And you can rest assured that Reg and I will do everything that is honourable and shun all that is not. However I must get on with this summary.
(Later) The Postal Department. Papers very seldom reach their destination and thousands of letters must have gone astray.  If one gets a parcel he his lucky.  Out of 32 parcels that I know of being sent to me, I only received 13.  The rest couldn’t have gone astray and I have noticed that the postal clerks never want for anything.
One day at Lemmos  I caught one red handed. I walked into the tent and one of the clerks was hastily disposing of the contents of a parcel.  I snapped the paper (the wrapper) from him and it had the address of a friend of mine on it. That is the way parcels disappear.  There are other instances too numerous to mention.
Something might also be said about the gift stuff.  That was treated about the same way as the rations were, only they went through Divisional HQ, then Brigade, then Regimental HQs and finally to us.  After the various HQs had their pick you  will understand that there was not much left for us.  Say for instance, a bottle of sauce, pickles or a small tin of fruit would have to go round a troop (35 men). 
 J. A. Graham
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Author

    Jack Graham, ANZAC soldier, kept a diary from 1914-1918.  Here it is, blogged 100 years later to the day....


    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner


    Archives

    February 1958
    October 1918
    September 1918
    July 1918
    June 1918
    December 1917
    November 1917
    October 1917
    July 1917
    April 1917
    March 1917
    February 1917
    December 1916
    November 1916
    October 1916
    August 1916
    July 1916
    June 1916
    May 1916
    April 1916
    March 1916
    January 1916
    December 1915
    November 1915
    October 1915
    September 1915
    August 1915
    July 1915
    June 1915
    May 1915
    April 1915
    February 1915
    January 1915
    December 1914
    November 1914
    October 1914
    August 1914
    August 1911

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly