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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Thursday, 27 June 2013
Diary Entry - 26th June, 1918
On relieving old Lambkin at the OP in the morning became rather nervous as am told the barrage was all wrong and we bashed in our own frontline, killing two and wounding thirteen men of our own. This keeps me pretty worried all day though am pretty sure in my own head that, unless the guns which were registered on the range are wrong and we have been given false calibrations, our barrage is all right. It was a coolish day and see no movement though fire a few rounds with forward gun.
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