• Title
  Vial war diary, 6 August-19 November 1915 /John James Vial
• Creator
  John James Vial
• Call number
  MLDOC 1297
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  6 August-19 November 1915
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  423189
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder) - carbon typescript with manuscript additions and corrections
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John James Vial, bricklayer of St. Peters, New South Wales, enlisted at the age of 20, 14 Sept. 1914 and embarked from Sydney on Transport A19 Afric, 18 Oct. 1914. He served with 1st Battalion, D Company in Gallipoli and was wounded there, Aug. 1915. He was severely reprimanded for being asleep on duty, 8 Jan. 1916 and hospitalised in Tel-El-Kebir with influenza, 15 Jan. 1916. In Feb. 1916 he was hospitalised in Cairo with pneumonia and invalided to Australia on hospital ship Karoola in April 1916 before re-embarking on Euripides Sept. 1916 and serving in France and Belgium. He was hospitalised in France and transferred to England with appendicitis Jan. 1917 and hospitalised in France with trench fever, Aug. 1917. After rejoining his unit in September he was killed in action in Belgium, 3 Oct. 1917
• Scope and Content
  Accounts of experiences as a sergeant of the 1st Australian Infantry Brigade at Gallipoli, including the attack on Lone Pine, 6 Aug. 1915 and evacuation, 17-19 Nov. 1915. Written retrospectively from Randwick Hospital, 1916
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: 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
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
  Microfilm located at CY 4320, frames 129 - 143
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1023876
• Name
  Afric (troopship)
  Karoola (hospital ship)
  
• Subject
  Euripides (Troopship).
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Australian.
  Soldiers--Australia--Diaries.
  World War, 1914-1918--Australia.
  Soldiers--Australia.
  Australia. Army. Battalion, 1st.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1526888

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