You may be interested in reading this article about the digitisation by the National Archives of the WW1 Hospital Diaries. Code: http://www.centenarynews.com/article/ww1-hospital-diaries-go-online-from-uk-national-archives
Thank you Jan, along with the other little teasers in the side bar one wonders if our regular computing lives will ever settle down & let us finish other things we started