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Description: | Bound ts transcript (79pp including notes and appendices) of diary notes made by a forty year old Leicestershire man while he was serving with the RAMC: in England, apparently near Luton, covering his duties with the 1/2nd North Midlands Field Ambulance in 1914 or 1915; as a Sergeant on the Western Front with the 51st Field Ambulance RAMC (17th Division) covering (in a slightly fictionalised form) his experiences during the German Spring Offensive (March – April 1918) with good references to the repeated hasty withdrawals by his unit, the treatment of battle casualties (including two wounded prisoners) and the plight of civilians forced to flee; at Varennes, apparently with 59th Casualty Clearing Station, including mention of the death and burial of RAF Lieutenants Roberts and King (June - September 1918); attached to 50th CCS with good descriptions of recently vacated battlefields (September 1918), references the influenza epidemic (November – December 1918 and February 1919) and conditions in and around Cambrai and Huy (December 1918), where his unit established and ran a hospital (January – May 1919); attached to 48th CCS at Namur (June – July 1919); also detailed lists of surgical instruments and equipment, medical supplies, dental instruments, kit lists, the semaphore alphabet, a casualty list and other notes.
Cataloguer AC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wignall, Edgar | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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