Major William Henry Cunningham

Zeitoun Camp.

January 13^th 1914 [sic]

Dear Colonel,

Having a free afternoon to-day I am starting to do that which should have been done before, write up the dairy [diary] of the doings of the Detachment of the 7^th Wellington, West Coast, Regiment, serving with the Wellington Infantry Battalion in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Main Body). Up to the time of commencing this Dairy [Diary] there is nothing to chronicle of actual fighting, though much of interesting manoeuvres and travel. It is my intention to write up the dairy [diary] in duplicate so that one copy may go to you while the other is kept with the detachment. At present our doings are humdrum and insignificant but at no very future date you or perhaps your successor may see fit to collate a small history of the Regiment and our smallest doing’s may interest future members of the Regiment. I hope you will put your copy safely in the archives of Regimental Headquarters in case as is not unlikely the original may got [sic] lost in the Field.

Yours very sincerely

WH Cunningham Major
Cmdg Wgtn W.C. Coy

To Lt Col R Hughes
Cmdg. 7^th Wgtn.W.C.Regt.
Wanganui NZ.