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Description: | Photocopy of a ts transcription of a diary (19pp) written by a soldier in 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (November 1914 - January 1915), with details of conditions in the trenches, food, patrols, wounded men, retrieving the body of a dead German, and the casualties in his battalion, but is notable for an account of a Christmas Truce which lasted from the evening of 24 December to 28 December 1914 as neither side wanted to shoot at each other until they were relieved, with his thoughts on the situation.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tapp, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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