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Diary of Private Maynard Johnson Cole, No. 2, 1918 [PRG 1710/1/2/19] • Manuscript

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Diary of Private Maynard Johnson Cole, 1918. Written on inside cover: 'To Dear Maynard, From All at 27 Montpelier St, Parkside, 20.2.18. A small token of love with best wishes for safe and speedy return'. Entries begin on Tuesday 28 May 1918, describing: receiving embarkation orders from Mitcham to embark in June; leaving Adelaide for Melbourne and then Sydney; departing Australia on 6 June; reaching Wellington and Tahiti; celebrating his 20th birthday at sea on 6 July 1918; arriving at Brooklyn, New York and exploring the city; arriving in England 11 August 1918; travelling to training depot near Fovant, Wiltshire and beginning training including route marches, physical tests and lectures; leaving for London and then Glasgow, September; drill and gas training; transfer to 50th Battalion, 1 October 1918; more training near Fovant, including bayonet, bombing, drills; on leave in London, 15 November; travelling to and arriving in France, Le Havre, 22 November; travelling to Belgium and active service in Belgium. Includes home addresses of friends. Original is a small volume, 10 x 7.5 x 1.7 cm.

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Dates / Publication details

1918

Creator

Cole (Family

Subject

Cole, Maynard Johnson, 1898-1952
World War, 1914-1918 -- South Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
Soldiers -- South Australia -- Diaries.

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General notes

See also PRG 1710/1/1 for Diary No. 1, 1918.

See also PRG 1710/1/3-9 for other papers of Maynard Cole relating to his World War I service.

See also B 73349/1-89 for photographs collected by Maynard Cole relating to his World War I service.

Historical information

No. 36946 Private Maynard Johnson Cole, son of William James Cooper Cole (1858-1938) and Alice Esther nee Johnson (1858-1915) of Laura, South Australia. He worked as a clerk with the Traffic Audit Office, Adelaide, before he enlisted with the AIF on 4 September 1917, aged 19. He served with the Army Medical Corps, and was later transferred to the 50th Battalion. He embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board the HMAT A36 'Boonah' on 29 October 1918, and returned to Australia on 12 July 1919. He married Kathleen Mary Hall (died 1944) in 1922, and later remarried, to Mavis Jean Cole, with whom he had a daughter, Susan. He died on 14 December 1952.

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24/05/2017

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