• Title
  Hodge war diary, 17 December 1915-6 July 1919 / P. Hodge
• Creator
  P. Hodge
• Call number
  MLMSS 2778
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  17 December 1915-6 July 1919
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  844312
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  0.05 metres of textual material - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Percy Hodge, warehouseman of Manly, New South Wales was 21 years old when he enlisted at Victoria Barracks, 16 Oct. 1915. He embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A35 Berrima, 17 Dec. 1915. He served with the 1st Field Ambulance Brigade, Dec. 1915-Jan. 1916, 1st Australian Divisional Ammunition Column, Jan.-Mar. 1916, 6th Battery, Mar.-Oct. 1916, 1st Australian Divisional Artillery Headquarters, Oct. 1916-May 1917 and with the 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company, May 1917-July 1919. he returned to Australia on the Soudan, 12 May 1919
• Scope and Content
  The diary describes voyage to Egypt on the troopship S.S. Berrima, training camps in Egypt Jan.-Mar. 1916, military action in France and Belgium Mar. 1916-Nov. 1918 including troop movements, enemy bombardments, attachment to telephone staff, observation post duty, offensive on the Somme July 1916, occupation of enemy territory after Armistice Day and return to Sydney May-July 1919 on the Soudan.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: May be copied for reference and publication
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2011/D05553/a2378.htm
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 4192, frames 71-242
  Digitised from the microfilm copy in 2009
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1064042
• Name
  Soudan (ship)
  Berrima (ship)
  Australia. Army. Field Ambulance, 1st.
  
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
  Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
  Soldiers--Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1522983

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