Gallipoli diary

   To commemorate Anzac-Day, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has published the diary of Major Edward P. Cox, which he kept between October 1914 and August 1915 when he was wounded during the Battle of Chunuk Bair.  Keeping a personal diary was against Army regulations; however the ‘official’ tone of Cox’s writing suggests he perhaps considered it a regimental diary.

Cox was evecuated from Gallipoli and returned to New Zealand because of his injuries; he donated his diary to the Dominion Museum (now part of Te Papa Tongarewa). The diary provides a first-hand account of the Gallipoli campaign and life on the front line.

The complete text of the diary can be read online at:

http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-CoxDiar.html

 More information about the diary is available at Te Papa Tongarewa:

http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=247211

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