12th October 1914

Port Melbourne

Monday October 12 1914 - A22

Still a cold wind blowing from the south.  I am pretty crook and got some medicine from the hospital on ship and get a mixture twice daily but it doesn't seem to do much good.  I have a sore throat, coald and pains in the chest.  It seems to be a general complaint.  The Doctor thinks the men caught it from the horses, as they mostly all have colds or strangels but I think it is the sudden change of weather.

Colonel Rosenthal's referrence to Colonel Hobbs below, relates

to then Colonel Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, who had been placed

in charge of the artillery for the 1st Artillery, A.I.F.  I was lucky

enough to chance upon a very impressive memorial to

Lieutenant-General Sir J. J. Hobbs on the Perth waterfront this

week when visiting for work.

[Author's own collection]

 

 

 

Monday 12th October

Battery at Battery gun drill and driving drill. Brigade head Quarters mounted drill. At Victoria Barracks re Horse and Ordnance Supplies. Col Hobbs visited ship and informed me he wanted the Brigade out to Broadmeadows on Thursday for Divisional Drill. I pointed out the difficulty re Quarantine of Queensland horses. He then promised to let me know later. Battery drill again during afternoon.

At night I accepted Col Lees’ invitation to dinner on the "Omrah" returned at 9.30PM.

 

 

 

[Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Sir Charles Rosenthal diary]

The bronze figurehead atop Lieutenant-General Sir

Joseph John Talbot Hobbs' memorial in Perth, as

detailed above, who in 1914 commanded the artillery

of the 1st Division, A.I.F.

[Author's own collection]