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Description: | Ms diary (41pp) kept by him while serving with the Royal Engineers, XIV Corps (October 1917 - January 1919), covering his journey to Italy, his air line building duties and laying cables to RFC sites in the Montebelluna area, the move to the Altipiano mountains (March 1918), and his return to the UK and demobilisation (January 1919), including notes on entertainment, air activity, training and instruction, observations on Italian life, the heavy bombardments (October 1918), and the poor condition of repatriated Italian prisoners of war (November 1918). Also with the collection are 19 pages of mounted photographs and sketches kept by his relation, Lieutenant H V Clark during his service with the RNAS (c1914 - 1918), showing scenes of HMS ERIN, the hospital ship HMS PLESSEY, air balloons, submarine and torpedo activity, and the headquarters of the Naval Kite Balloon Base, North Queensferry.
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Engineers British Army Royal Naval Air Service | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Applebee, F G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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