Scope and Contents Diary of Alexander Meiklejohn, Royal Engineers, serving with the ANZAC signals at Gallipoli during the First World War. The diary covers the period March-November 1915, and begins when Meiklejohn arrives in Egypt, where he witnesses the Battle of the Wazzir, a riot involving large numbers of ANZAC troops in Cairo, on 2 April 1915. He is stationed onboard the ‘Arcadian’ in the signals office, and attached to Ian Hamilton’s staff. Meiklejohn witnesses the landing on 25 April...