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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Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Diary Entry - 16th January, 1918
We were late in rising and had hard work to get any breakfast. Sanger and Peter Head were in the club. They had just come off leave. It was blowing a hurricane but luckily Siggers and self had it on our backs and got out in quick time. The news on getting back was that we were going into action on the 17th, 18th, ie one section first then the other two.
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