MANUSCRIPT
Diaries
- Date
- 6 Aug-10 Nov 1914
- Reference
- MSX-2541
- Description
Diary begins with Malone offering his services to the NZ Defence Department. Offer accepted to command Wellington Infantry Regiment. Details winding up business and family matters then attending training at Awapuni Camp. Troops entrained to Wellington. Organising Regiment for embarkation aboard the `Arawa'. Continues with descriptions of shipboard life for the troops and his own recovery from a bout of influenza. Notes the death of a soldier aboard the `Ruapehu' who is buried at sea. Transport calls in at Hobart and Albany. Malone on shore leave at Albany 28 Oct 1914. Ends 10 Nov 1914 with comments on the sinking of the German ship `Emden' at Cocos Islands.
Publication - Published as No better death: the great war diaries and letters of William G Malone : edited by John Crawford with Peter Cooke. (Auckland : Reed Books, 2005)
Quantity: 1 volume(s) (102 leaves).
Physical Description: Holograph, carbon copy pages (21.5 cm, manifold book)
Includes ink sketches of troopships and the port at Albany.
Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project.
Digitisation details - 112 digitised images
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Transcripts available at MSDL-0213, MS-Papers-8538-01 and MS-Papers-2198-1
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Malone, William George (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1859-1915 : Diaries and letters
- Format
- 1 volume(s) (102 leaves), Personal narratives, Manuscripts, Holograph, carbon copy pages (21.5 cm, manifold book), Illustration: Includes ink sketches of troopships and the port at Albany.
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