Diary

Diary was originally owned by Lieutenant Douglas Bryan, later used by Malone. Front of diary includes a soldiers roll, section rolls, roll of specialists, detail of men to be left aboard first disembarkation, and command orders by D Bryan. Rough survey of trenches of Wellington Battalion with diagram sketch. Diary of Malone then continues from MSX-2546 on 2 Aug 1915. Details an accident by an Engineer Sergeant throwing a mortar bomb and was killed. Malone goes on a reconnaissance trip on HM Destroyer `Colne'. 4 Aug 1915 prepares to be relieved of command at Quinn's Post and take his Battalion to Happy Valley in readiness for the battle of Chunuk Bair. Details the planning for this attack including reconnaissance from Walker's Ridge. Last entry is a conference with Army Corps Commander in Rest Gully on 5 Aug 1915.

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, original & carbon copy pages (21.5 cm, manifold book)

Processing information: Digitisation details - Part of WW100 digitisation project. 46 digitised images. Pages 1, 2, 9, 23 and 24 are missing from diary. Page 4 is the margin only. Back matter of digitisation includes carboard sheet used as a blotter.

Alternative form available: Transcripts available at MS-Papers-8538-09 and MSDL-0221