Description: | Photocopied ms diary (54pp), with annotated ts transcription (81pp), kept during his service with the Regimental Band of the 2/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (189th Brigade, 63rd Division, from July 1916 with 189th Brigade only) in the United Kingdom, November 1915 - November 1916, and in Bermuda, January 1917 - February 1919, describing garrison life and voyages to and from Bermuda, including the social engagements at which the band played, various illness he suffered including a combination of Spanish influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia (October 1918), sporting events and cinema-going, weather conditions and especially the heat, and the problems of the mail service. Together with a colour photocopy of four photograph albums (20pp, 23pp, 23pp, 34pp) containing pictures taken in Bermuda.
Cataloguer KB
Catalogue date 2002-01-25 |