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, 15 June 2013
Diary Entry - 15th June, 1918
Take out four bombardiers in the morning map reading and we go for a good ride round, calling at RA about twelve p.m., they all seem good though one Br. Austin seems very intelligent. Lambkin arrives from the guns after lunch and in the evening we all go to a very excellent show run by the 51st Div named Turnip Tops. This show is run on musical comedy lines and both the music and songs were written and composed in France by a man who used to be at the Gaiety.
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