War Diary of Australian 48th Battalion

While on active units were required to keep a unit war diary recording their daily activities.

Details of the regulations about war diaries can be found here. It is obvious that these regulations were not followed to the letter.

In the table below the PDF link is to the digital copy of that month's war diary on the Australian War Memorial website.

The diaries consist of a printed form which was filled in by hand by the Battalion commander. These are often diffcult to read. Use of capital letters and punctuation are odd.

Transcripts are provided for the diaries from the formation of the 48th Battalion to the death of Joseph Mayersbeth in June 1917. Where it has not been possible to discern a word question marks are inserted. There were no question marks in the original documents.

In addition, the diaries often contain typed orders etc. These are generally easy to read and have not been transcribed.

Source: Australian War Memorial - AWM4 Subclass 23/65 - 48th Infantry Battalion