Edwin J. T. Kerby

Legacy

World War One service recognised on the Ballarat Avenue of Honour.

Notes

LETTERS FROM THE FRONT. - PRIVATE KEEBY.

In a letter to his mother, Mrs J. M. Kerby, Barkly Street, Private E. Kerbys writes:— 'Carlton. Egypt, - July 3rd. — I have not written this last few days because there has been nothing worth writing about. However, yesterday I got my sailing orders, and today I embark for Gallipoli, so I thought I would drop a few lines first. The last couple of days I have been busy visiting hospitals and checking our nominal rolls of wounded men and seeing if I could do anything to help them. In addition to that I have been doing a little surf-bathing, and there is not doubt that is rather a healthy pastime. There is a splendid beach within a mile of our camp, and there are fairly strong breaker, with sufficient undertow to make it exciting. ... I had to attend at the Chatby Military Cemetery yesterday, and and all to the military burials. Some of the wounded die every day, and yesterday 3 were buried. The whole thins is very simple. A big deep trench is dug in the cemetery, and the coffins are laid in it side by side, and if necessary, on above another. A short sermon by the chaplain, and a short report to the next of kin, and it is over as far as here is concerned. The relatives are different; but such is war. ...

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--Beth Kicinski 11:31, 23 August 2013 (EST); --Clare K.Gervasoni 11:33, 6 April 2015 (AEST)