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Description: | Notebook containing ms entries made by a Private while he was serving with the 33rd Field Ambulance RAMC (11th Division), comprising a detailed ms account of his leave in Cairo in May 1916 (51pp, with ts transcript 11pp) including visits to historic sites and reaction to him as a British soldier, a sketch map of Suvla Bay (misdated 1914), itineraries for July 1915 – June 1916 (with ts transcript) and July 1916 – June 1917, and, while with 14th Division, June 1917 - January 1918, details of divisional signs and units, lists of Arabic vocabulary and grammar (47pp) and Hindustani words (2pp) and lists of soldiers’ names and addresses with additional information(8pp); also an ms account (28pp and ts transcript 5pp) of his experiences in the Army covering conditions in the Hillsborough barracks, Sheffield and while in the Dardanelles (1915) and on the Western Front (1916 – 1917), together with copies (3pp) of his service records.
Cataloguer AC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Burleigh, Thomas Huntleywood | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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