Joyce Hazard local photographer has taken the picture. Joyce is the wife of William Hazard (dec) Joyce Hazard is a resident of Emerald, Colour photographNonejoyce hazard, emerald

non-fictionA personal diary that takes us from the shores of Australia to Gallipoli by way of training in the Middle East, a torpedoed troopship and on to a convalescent hospital in England. Pages of a small pocket diary that hold so much information, recorded each day, regardless of being torpedoed at sea or shelled in the front line and surviving to tell the tale. Also survivors were the four Hazard brothers from Brighton, Victoria, serving their country during World War 1, putting their lives on the line. All returned. Graphic newspaper reports by war correspondent Keith Murdoch, Officers and men support the little diary.world war 1, diary, brighton (vic.), hazard family, hazard brothers, corporal leonard gordon hazard

Corporal Hazard. Was in "D" Company 21st. Battalion 6th.Infantry Brigade 1st. A.I.F. Diary from 8th. May 1915 to 31st. December 1915.DonatiDonated by Mrs. Joyce M. Hazard 20 Pinnocks Road.,Emerald, Victoria 3782.

A transcription of the 1915 diary of Corporal Hazard, aged 25, was done by his daughter-in-law, Joyce Hazard, and given to Legacy in 2009. The original diary is not included. The document includes some photocopies of newspaper articles of some events in the diary and Corporal Hazard's later life and photos of his three brothers who also served. The Hazard brothers were from Brighton, Victoria. From the Foreword: "A personal diary that takes us from the shores of Australia to Gallipoli by way of training in the middle east, a torpedoed troopship and on to a convalescent hospital in England." The troopship was the 'Southland' and the included newspaper report recounts the disaster. Timeline: 8 May 1915 Left Melbourne 10 June Arrived at Heliopolis training camp in Egypt 2 September Was on the 'Southland' which was torpedoed 8 September Arrived on Gallipoli 19 October Wounded in shelling 27 October Arrived Malta on a hospital ship 15 November Arrived South Hampton Docks in UK and transferred to Southern General Hospital in Birmingham 6 December First visit to London and a ride in the underground trains. Transferred to Woodgate Convalescent Hospital 31st December Diary ends on New Years Eve.The day by day record shows the war from the point of view of a corporal.White A4 paper spiral bound, 39 pages of a transcription of the diary of Corp L G Hazard and a pdf file.memoir, gallipoli, world war one