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Description: | Three ms pocket diaries written while serving as a Lance Corporal in the 2/15th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment TF (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles) (179th Brigade, 60th Division then from May 1918, 90th Brigade, 30th Division) in the United Kingdom, February – May 1916, on the Western Front, June – October 1916, to Salonika, November 1916 – May 1917, to Egypt and Palestine, June 1917 – May 1918, then back to the Western Front, June 1918 – 1919. His 1916 diary includes several entries about his training, living conditions, sniper activity, raids on enemy trenches and entertainment behind the lines, preparations for his deployment to Salonika, the journey to Salonika via Malta, road building in Salonika and observations on the locals; his 1917 diary includes descriptions of long marches, training and practice raids, sport and entertainment behind the lines and his hospitalisation in Egypt for illness; his 1918 diary written up until September includes descriptions of his leave in Cairo, his experiences during the campaign in Palestine and the Allied advance on the Western Front. Together with 13 ms letters (39pp), March 1916 - January 1919, written to his parents, brother and sister including a letter written on Armistice Day which describes his experience of the victory celebrations; a photograph of Doubleday; certificate of his Mention in Despatches; a German leaflet taken from a captured dugout; two notebooks (43pp and 83pp) containing training notes and 11 loose pages; six hand drawn observation maps and miscellaneous papers from the Civil Service Rifles Retired Members Association.
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Doubleday, Richard E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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