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Description: | Ms diary (158pp) kept during his service as a Major with the 7th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry on the Western Front, 1 January - 29 May 1918, covering his period as the Officer Commanding 7th Battalion until 18 May, shortly before his death in action from shrapnel wounds on 31 May 1918; describing company movements, trench raids and preparations for anticipated attacks, casualties and Battalion strengths, his recommendations for decorations, the enemy tunnels at Croisilles and an instance in which a German party showing the white flag of surrender was fired upon. The diary contains a piece of shrapnel embedded in the back cover.
Cataloguer VR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | King's Shropshire Light Infantry British Army 7th Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Johnston, Frank | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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