[DÉCEMBRE 1916]
[Vendredi 29]
My motto while in the army is as follows
Do as you are told
Be obliging always
Smile at trouble
Never say die
Think for yourself but never speak them but just wander around and say nothing
Don’t argue for it aint worth while

December 1916

Hutton contacted the Library after seeing the Library’s advertisement in London: ... I beg to report that I have a dinkum little journal, brief but to the point of three years warfare dealing with almost every scrap that the Aussies fought in France from Pozieres until the armistice and I doubt if any Diggers who knocked about the forward area have such a complete and authentic record of what we did in the great war as I have and the record of my unit (17th Battalion) stands second to none, so you can depend on it being ‘good material’ and worthy of a good price …
Yours sincerely
Jackie Hutton

CONTALMAISON
Friday 16
A fellow is just a mass of mud
Saturday 17
Oh for a ray of sunshine
Sunday 18
I’ve just lost my voice again, Im just whispering
It is a buggar of a war …
16-18 February 1917