Archie Barwick - Diary
(sl.nsw.gov.au) Background and some handwritten excerpts from the diaries
of Archie Barwick, a 24-year-old Australian farmer who enlisted at the age
of 24 years. He fought in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 and on the Western
Front.
The above link provides only a few pages of the first of his
16 diaries which are held in the State Library of NSW's collection.
For all of the (handwritten) diaries:
- Go to State Library of NSW archive
search - In the search box, type: archie barwick diary
- Press Enter - The titles of the handwritten diaries begin "Item 01...",
"Item 02...", and so on.
The
Crowther War Diary (stors.tas.gov.au)
Sir William Crowther was a Tasmanian doctor who served for a
month at Gallipoli in 1915 before becoming ill. His handwriting is difficult
to read but he included in his diaries numerous newspaper cuttings of the
day. (If the link becomes unavailable, locate it from
Tasmania and WW1.)
Crowther, Sir William Edward Lodewyk Hamilton (adb.anu.edu.au)
Sir William Crowther (1881-1981) should not be confused with his grandfather
and great-grandfather who were also called William Crowther, nor with the
New Zealand politician of the same name. See
Crowther Family (utas.edu.au).
Hill,
Charles Rowland (anzacsonline.net.au) If the page is UNAVAILABLE, try
this
ARCHIVED VERSION.
Two photographs of Charles Rowland Hill (including the image at the right of
our page) and a link to
the following online version of his diaries:
Diary of 303 Sapper C. R. Hill [pdf] (anzacsonline.net.au) If the page is UNAVAILABLE, try this
ARCHIVED VERSION.
Sapper Hill landed at Gallipoli on 19 August 1915, well after
the 25 April landing. The 23-page pdf file of transcribed diary entries is easy
to read and gives good descriptions of the conditions the soldiers faced.
Scroll to the bottom of the page for the links to Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the
diaries.
Anzac Diary: E.G. King (rhearne.id.au) (Previously located at
http://users.bigpond.net.au/rhearne)
Ernest George King served in the 19th Battalion, arriving at
Gallipoli on 20 August 1915. His diary comments include reference to the
endless trench digging, the rotting bodies of dead soldiers and other
unpleasant living conditions.
The Great War Diary: Will Lycett
(anzacs.net)
The diaries of Lance Corporal/Sapper William Dalton
Lycett, from January 1915 to December 1918.
The 'Great War' Diaries of 2063 Lance Corporal William Dalton Lycett
(anzacsonline.net.au) If the page is UNAVAILABLE, try this
ARCHIVED VERSION.
Will was offshore on the day of the landing at Gallipoli. The page includes
a link to a pdf file of the transcribed diaries - but before you
print out the file, note that it is a whopping 313 PAGES in size.
Perhaps print selected pages only.
Eric
Rapkins' World War 1 diary
(abc.net.au)
The diary of Eric Harold Rapkins records the landing at Gallipoli and the
days immediately before and after.
Diary of an ANZAC - HV Reynolds
(awm.gov.au)
Extracts from the diary of Herbert Vincent Reynolds presented in
blog format, along with relevant photographs and other
illustrations. Scroll down for beginning of entries from HV
Reynolds' diary. Note that the entries are in reverse date order and
continue over many pages. Includes suggested questions for classroom
discussion.
ANZAC
- Diary of Harold Rydon 1914-1917 (smashwords.com)
Lance-Corporal Harold Rydon was educated at
Eton (a school in England) and moved to Queensland in 1912, working as a
jackaroo and as a tomato farmer. He volunteered to fight in the Australian
Army very soon after was declared in 1914. He kept a diary of his time in
the AIF and enhanced it later by adding more information, providing comments
and linking some diary entries to subsequent events, to create a well
written, very readable and historically valuable story of one soldier's
participation in World War 1.
The diary covers Harold's time in
Egypt, Greece, Gallipoli and France. ●
You can read the expanded diary as an ebook or in
other formats such as pdf file or online.z ●
Note that the first few pages of the publication contain
"Notes on L/CPL. H.E. Rydon" written by his son, A.H.B. Rydon, in
1987. Harold Rydon's diary immediately follows these notes under the heading
"By H.E. Rydon".
(The
image of Harold Rydon at the right is taken with permission from the diary
and is copyright.)
'God knows it
was hell': Extract from diary of S.W. Siddeley (archived from museumvictoria.com.au)
An entry dated 8 May
1915 from the diary of Corporal William McQueen Saxon ('S.W.') Siddeley, of
the Australian Army Medical Corps, describing his involvement at Helles,
Gallipoli. See also photograph of diary
(museumvicoria.com.au).
Diary
of Corporal Edgar Sydney Worrall (From diggerhistory.info,
archived by the NLA's Pandora Archive on 6 Mar 2010. See also our "Where
is Digger History?" page.)
Corporal Edgar Worrall was one of the last men to
leave Gallipoli. He says in the entry for 20th December 1915 that he fired
the last shot at Lone Pine. Other entries cover food, school mates being at
Gallipoli too, letters and parcels from home, firing at the Turks, trench
conditions such as cold weather and nearby dead bodies, and the evacuation.
For the meaning of the term "sap", see
Gallipoli Slang.
(Corporal Worrall died in France in 1917.)
Diggers Diaries(From diggerhistory.info,
archived by the NLA's Pandora Archive on 6 Mar 2010. See also our "Where
is Digger History?" page.) This section of the diggerhistory.info website is the
source of some of the diary links above and below.
Gallipoli: In their own words
(theage.com.au)
"Using letters, diaries and photographs, The Sunday Age recounts events
through the eyes of the diggers who battled on amid despair and death..."
The Sunday Age, 18 April 2004.
The Anzac
Diaries Part I (learningonline.com.au) The Anzac
Diaries Part II (learningonline.com.au)
These links have been removed as the site
now requires a subscription to be paid.
WW1
digger's diary tells of trench hell
(abc.net.au) ABC News, 2 July 2012.
The handwritten diary of Gunner Norman Pearce, who served at Gallipoli and
the Western Front, has been given to the State Library of New South Wales.
(Includes a video report.)
War Diary of 8593 Sergeant William Gilbert Bruce
(archived from amosa.org.au, Army Museum of South Australia) [pdf file]
(Not at Gallipoli.) Egypt, France, London. (The document appears to have a
layout problem.)
Verdi
George Schwinghammer (From diggerhistory.info,
archived by the NLA's Pandora Archive on 6 Mar 2010. See also our "Where
is Digger History?" page.)
Sergeant Verdi Schwinghammer was the Australian-born
son of German parents. He served in Egypt, England and France.
Lieut. Lyell Swann reveals his World War 1 experiences in war diary (heraldsun.com.au)
A newspaper story containing edited extracts from six entries
in the diaries of South Australian soldier Lieutenant Lyell Keith Swann, who
died in France three days after the Armistice was signed on 11 November
1918.
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