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Description: | Photocopy (62pp) of an ms diary kept during his RAMC service at No 58 Casualty Clearing Station on the Western Front, located at Lillers (March 1918), Longuenesse (April - October 1918), Tincourt (October - December 1918) and Beaulencourt (December 1918 - February 1919), describing casualties sustained by friendly fire, the condition of the towns he visited, a visit to the CCS by the Belgian royal family, periods of leave back in the United Kingdom, the influenza outbreak, his shocked reaction to the Armistice, the state of what had been German-occupied territory and the welcome he received from liberated French civilians. The diary has documents pasted in at intervals which include leave passes, press cuttings, a sports programme and various Special Orders of the Day from 1918.
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Catalogue date 2002-01-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hulme, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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