Description: | Ts transcription (236pp) of a journal with additional introduction and notes by his granddaughter, kept while serving with the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards (4th Brigade, 2nd Division until August 1915, then 1st Guards Brigade, Guards Division), on the staff of XI Corps, January 1916, and as a General Staff Officer with the 38th Welsh Division, July 1916, and, from May 1917, with the XIV Corps, on the Western Front, 1914 - 1917; describing in detail his regular army life at the beginning of the war including many interesting anecdotes and and comments on the fear of German spies (1914), the experience of being under shellfire, aspects of the role of Battalion Adjutant, the narrow escapes of himself and other soldiers, French refugees, the provision of officers' horses and brief details of a captured German personal diary.
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Catalogue date 2001-12-07 |