An interesting collection of diaries kept by a Hawkes Bay man serving with the Otago Infantry Regiment, the diaries comprise a small tightly written book kept by the writer at Gallipoli, a later pencil copy of this in a 1915 dated French diary, and finally a diary kept by the writer in France. All diaries belonged to William McGregor, the diary relating to Gallipoli commences before the landings. It follows the author through the battles of the landings and the trials of serving on the Gallipoli Peninsula. He details combat, allegations the Turks are mutilating the dead and also the trials of trench life. ‘They gave US a fair fusillade when we were charging, go on and take a ridge full of Turkish bivouacs and about thirty Turks without opposition, they threw their arms down and up with their hands. Wellington were digging in where we go to so the Major shouted ‘ Come on Otago’ and away we went after him. We got into another Turk trench with about a dozen in it, they cleared out the other end after we got a few with bombs…’ He refers on a few occasions to a friend who is serving in the Waikato Regiment, and the times he meets him on Gallipoli. Sadly, one time when he went to see him he learns that his friend has been killed. McGregor was wounded in November 1916 and evacuated to Cairo. Oddly his diary at the time makes no mention of this. He later went on to serve in France and the Western front. His diary of that period covers various engagements and trench life – and also a minor mutiny by the men. William McGregor was born in Scotland in 1887. He was in New Zealand working as a tea Salesman, for an Oamaru firm. He gave his place of residence as the Queens Hotel, Oamaru when enlisting in the Nzef on 13 December 1914. He gave his next of kin as his mother in Perthshire but it seems he had a place of residence in the Hawkes Bay as well. McGregor embarked as a Private in the Otago Infantry Regiment with the 3rd Reinforcements in February 1915, serving on Gallipoli, where he was wounded on or about 17 November 1915. He later served on the Western front. In August 1917 he commenced officer training and he was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in January 1918. McGregor married whilst overseas. He returned to New Zealand in 1919 and died in 1965. Estimate