7 Infantry Battalion War diaries
(AWM Collection no. AWM52 8/3/44)
While on active service military units are required to keep diaries recording their daily activities.
The diaries generally consist of war diary or intelligence summary sheets. The sheets record the date of each entry, the unit’s location, a summary of events, and any remarks or references to appendices. The appendices, which make up the larger part of each diary, may include:
- strength and casualty returns
- routine orders and administrative instructions
- operation orders and instructions
- reports
- messages
- location statements
- intelligence summaries
- photographs, sketches, maps, and traces
| December 1941 (PDF 4.92 MB) | |
| January - February 1942 (PDF 14.31 MB) | |
| March 1942 (PDF 49.86 MB) | |
| April 1942 (PDF 19.12 MB) | |
| May - June 1942 (PDF 41.32 MB) | |
| July - August 1942 (PDF 28.74 MB) | |
| September - October 1942 (PDF 52.31 MB) | |
| November - December 1942 (PDF 44.76 MB) | |
| January - March 1943 (PDF 44.92 MB) | |
| April 1943 (PDF 57.01 MB) | |
| April - June 1943 (PDF 33.64 MB) | |
| July - December 1943 (PDF 39.99 MB) | |
| January - February 1944 (PDF 33.34 MB) | |
| March - April 1944 (PDF 29.66 MB) | |
| May - July 1944 (PDF 45.06 MB) | |
| August 1944 (PDF 27.5 MB) | |
| September - October 1944 (PDF 33.71 MB) | |
| November - December 1944 (PDF 41.35 MB) | |
| January - February 1945 (PDF 34.76 MB) | |
| March - April 1945 (PDF 23.04 MB) | |
| May - July 1945 (PDF 42.08 MB) | |
| August - October 1945 (PDF 27.34 MB) | |
| November - December 1945 (PDF 27.53 MB) | |
| January - March 1946 (PDF 17.06 MB) |