A loose leaf diary detailing WD Walker's daily life including study, medical duties, travel and personal routine. This item covers locations around Australia and the United Kingdom.

This part of the loose leaf diary follows on from AA 357/4/1 and provides a summary of letter concentrations (ie letters sent) including addressee and subject of letters from WD Walker to a variety of family, friends and professional contacts. No detailed indexing has been attempted.

THERE ARE TOO MANY PERSONAL NAMES TO INDEX IN THIS ITEM, however to give some indication of the depth of information available individuals, subject matter and locations noted in the first portion are described and indexed. This is made up of a 35 page continuous letter on a mix of Adelaide YMCA Army Department, Church of England Soldier's Institute and The Australian YMCA Abroad letterhead addressed Dr and Mrs Leitch. It appears to have been compiled progressively over the period covered.

Individuals, subject matter and locations noted include:

• Mrs Leitch, Tom Leitch, Joan and Billy, Jamestown, Mrs Mat Bailey, Herb Bailey, Mannamarie, Charlie Thow, Miss Jones, Burra, Broken Hill, Andy Bailey 1 August 1918
  
  
• Gaika, Cape Verde, spSpain, Mill, Tom, Durban, Sierra Leone, Plymouth 29 September 1918
  
  
• Mrs Leitch, Muir, Ritchie, Bert Wurm, Dr Borthwick, Crep, Stitts Practical Bacteriology, Tom Leitch, Sonny, Miss Thow, saMitcham, Capt Burford, Gaika, Cape Town, Durban, Dorch (photograph no 1), employed onboard in isolation ward, Durban (photographs 2 and 3), Basutoland, Cape Aguhllas, Tidworth, crossing the line ceremony, Sierra Leone, Jack Dempsey, Cape Verde, Tilbury, diryibles, Fovant, Glasgow, Mrs Robertson, Elayout, Nelson's monument, Edinburgh, London, Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), hospitals at ukSouthall, Dartford, Harefield, Bulford dermatological hospital, Lt Col Wiley, St John's Hospital, Cancer Hospital, Dr Sequeira, Dr Knox, Dr Bunch, Dr Sibby, Sir William McEwen, motor bike, Salonika, craniology, promised Australian Aboriginal skulls 10 October 1918
  
  
• Tom Leitch, Mill Leitch, Dr Tassie, Bulford, leprosy, Auntie Nell in waPerth, Port Pirie, long notes on symptoms and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and wound infections, BSA motor bike, Birmingham, Fordingbridge, Ringwood (photographs 10-12), (photograph 9 WD Walker and friends), Bournemouth (photograph 13), Avon and Stour Rivers (photograph 15), The Tankodrome (photograph 14), WD Walker and Mouri boy we met at Bournemouth (photograph 16), Hugh Cairns, Edinburgh, Middlesex Hospital, Dorch, Wimbledon, Patterson, Brookes, Mdlle Lenglen, Crep, Mrs Lambert Chambers, Hendon aerodrome, Hawker, WD Walker joyflight in Avro 2 seater (? his first flight), St Peter's College and Prince Alfred College old schollars dinner, Sinn Fein riot, non military employment, The London Hospital, Sir Wm McEwen, Dr Sequeira, Mrs Monty, fParis. 23 August 1919. This item is restricted.