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Description: | Ms diary (47pp), with photocopy (47pp), kept during his service as Adjutant of the 1/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars (2nd South Midland Brigade, 2nd Mounted Division) in Egypt, July 1915, but mainly as a staff officer at Anzac, Gallipoli, August - November 1915, describing his duties, living conditions and rations, his practical attitude towards the war and feeling about 'slackers' back home, the intense shelling, the landings at Suvla Bay (6 August) and subsequent fighting, weather conditions on the Peninsula, court martial sentences and the presence of Australian troops, while offering his view of events on the Western Front including the Battle of Loos before his evacuation from Gallipoli with jaundice.
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Catalogue date 2002-02-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pauncefort-Duncombe, Everard | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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