• Title
  Item 03: James Lindsell diary, 21 April 1917-15 June 1918
• Call number
  MLMSS 7991/Item 3
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  21 April 1917-15 June 1918
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  911202
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 volume
  
• Scope and Content
  Lindsell describes leaving camp 23 Apr. 1917 for Folkestone and embarking the next day for Boulogne with the 14th Machine Gun Company. He describes marches and heavy bombardments, being wounded 15 May near Bullecourt, his transfer to No. 3 Canadian General Hospital 16 May 1917, return to unit 15 June 1917, being wounded again 26 September at Polygon Wood and evacuation to No. 24 General Hospital at Etaples 30 Sept., his transfer to hospital in Kent, England 2 Dec. 1917 and departure from Plymouth on HMS Dunvegan Castle, 13 Mar. 1918.
  After leave in Cape Town he embarked 20 May on TSS Tofua and arrived in Port Melbourne 13 June 1918. The period from June-Sept. 1917 was written retrospectively Oct. 1917.
  Diary includes miscellaneous notes, sketches and nominal rolls at rear
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2012/D15128/a5569.htm
• General note
  
  Available on microfilm at: CY 4959, frames 359 - 412
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1014622
• Name
  Dunvegan Castle (ship)
  Tofua (ship)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE230573

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