War Diaries (July 19) (nonfiction)
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Ronald McInnis diary: 19 July 1916
Of the fighting at Fromelles, Lieutenant Ronald McInnis, 53rd Battalion, of Mackay, Queensland, wrote:
We thought we knew something of the horrors of war, but we were mere recruits, and have had our full education in one day.
- Lieutenant Ronald McInnis diary, 19 July 1916 - on the fighting at Fromelles, Lieutenant Ronald McInnis, 53rd Battalion, of Mackay, Queensland / Quoted in Bill Gammage, The Broken Years, 1990, p. 175
