E.S. "Gordon" Lacey - Diary 1

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Ernest Stanley "Gordon" Lacey grew up in Mosman. His parents lived at 'Richmond', 24 Rosebery Street. He went to school locally and worked as a mail assistant at Mosman Post Office before enlisting in 1917. Wounded for the first time in May 1918, he returned to his Battalion, the 53rd, in August, just before they were to take part in two key actions, the Attack at Anvil Wood and the Battle of St. Quentin Canal. Lacey was hit again, by shell fire, on 29 September, and died of his wounds at the 1st Australian General Hospital in Rouen on 9 October 1918.

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28th One of the Engineers died and was buried 2nd Oct about 6.15 a.m. we sighted an island sticking up like a big round hump. Later we sighted about 6 little steamers, so short that they buck over each wave. When the mist cleared we found ourselves with land on each side. We passed through a submarine net and just inside there were a couple of torpedo boats and a big dreadnought. All along the

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banks of the Clyde there are immense shipbuilding yards and factories. About dinnertime we got orders to get ready to leave the ship but we came alongside and had tied up for a good while before we were ready to go.

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28th One of the Engineers died and was buried. 2nd Oct About 6-15 a.m. we sighted an island sticking up like a big round hump. Later we sighted about 6 little steamers, so short that they buck over each wave. When the mist cleared we found ourselves with land on each side. We passed through a submarine net and just inside there were a couple of Torpedo boats and a big dreadnought. All along the

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banks of the Clyde there are immense shipbuilding yards and factories. About dinnertime we got orders to get ready to leave the ship but we came alongside and had tied up for a good while before we were ready to go.

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