From the long-hand script written by the Brigade's Officers in the “Field” to making digitally readable text is a massive task. Many of the original documents are close to being unreadable, yellowed with age, and mostly written in pencil, then smudged and smeared from being moved about in combat zones and afterwards, sitting in uncontrolled temperature archive vaults for decades.
That the Government of Australia diligently saved these documents and stored them in the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra, we are extremely grateful. That the Museum staff have now scanned each diary page, and made them available free of charge to the general public, we sincerely thank them. Our nations military history is here for all to see.

However being image scans compiled as PDF files there is one immense problem, and that is being able to find a particular person or event written about in the original diaries. To that end we begin here to transcribe those scans into electronic text for easy research access.