Edward Walford Manifold was born on 28th April 1892 and grew up in the Western District of Victoria. Together with his older brother William Herbert (Bee), he travelled to England to join the Royal Field Artillery when World War I broke out. Day by day, this blog publishes his letters home and the entries he made in his diaries, from 1915 when he was first sent to France until 1918 when his service ends. (To follow on Twitter: manifold1418)
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Friday, 20 January 2012
Diary Entry - 20th January, 1917
Bee: Still freezing. I started to ride to the Field Cashier at Meault - about four miles - but it was so slippery that I got off and walked. Things are just as bad as they can be in the wagon line. We have only 30 men left out of a hundred. Claudet came down to lunch. Walrond came back about four and Mills and Hughes came to dinner.
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