In temporary command of Australian 4th Division. Training area. London and Bradford. With Australian, Canadian, British and Belgian units. Now in command of artillery of 1st and 4th Divisions. London, Oxford, Bradford, Belfast. London, Portrush, Salisbury Plain. Recalled to France. Temporary command of 1st Australian Division 14 Feb. Four days leave, London. Diary written by another.
To London for specialist treatment. Major Allied offensive begun. Battle of Mont St Quentin. Attended Allied Tank School at Fontainbleau.
Refusal of troops to accept battalion disbandonment. Attack on Hindenburg Line. Sir Charles Rosenthal informed me that he wrote his Diary from leaving Australia in a small note-book until arrival in Cairo when he purchased the two books on which this Diary is written and copied into them the original notes from his small note-book containing entries up to his arrival in Cairo.
He lost this original note-book through fire in Gallipoli. These two volumes accompanied Sir Charles from December up to the time of his return to Sydney. The entries were made from day to day, at lEast when possible. He therefore did not enter up the entry under the date of August 25th until he was well enough to do so. See my lead pencil note on Page of volume 1. Ifould, Esq. During conversation with Major General, Sir Charles Rosenthal, he mentioned that you were in possession of his private War Diary, and that some doubt had been expressed as to where it had been written.
I had the honour to be closely associated with general Rosenthal as D. The events which led up to the war now in progress, and the main features of the Campaign will be published in a much more complete form than I could possibly hope to arrange.
