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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Saturday, 9 February 2013
Diary Entry - 9th February, 1918
Fine, sunny day with a strong west wind blowing. Walk to Brigade and see Mills (acting Colenel in Goschen's absence). A large number of officers congregated at Brigade before I left, including Scott (of TM fame) and Heabit, the former had a great grouse about us thieving his ammunition. While we were there, Claudet rang up to say the Hun was at him with 4.2s and had blown up 1,000 rounds of ammunition, but, when the adjutant got the counter batteries, they said they were dealing with it.
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