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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Monday, 11 March 2013
Diary Entry - 11th March, 1918
Spend rather an unpleasant night in the mine at the guns as some gunner mistook my cubicle for a urinal which was most unpleasant. He was walking in his sleep. I think it was mainly due to the fact that we had received a barrel of stout from the wagon line and they had been making the most of it. Nothing exceptional happened during the day - it was very quiet but again beautifully warm and sunny. Nicholson went to the wagon lines early in the morning, for him, leaving here at nine a.m
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