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Description: | Ms diary for (57pp) kept during his service with the 3rd Welsh Field Ambulance RAMC (158th Brigade, 53rd Division) in Egypt and Palestine, January - August 1917, containing brief entries mentioning his living conditions, troop entertainments including concerts and football matches, sightings of enemy aircraft, the poor state of Turkish prisoners, his involvement in the First Battle of Gaza (March), his evacuation by No 2 Hospital Train to the Cairo General Hospital suffering from shell shock (April), and voyage back to the United Kingdom (August). Also held with the collection are his discharge certificate (2pp, AF B2079); a letter card to his parents sending 'Greetings from a soldier in Egypt' (4pp); 4 very interesting ms letters (14pp) written to Evans' family by a family friend, J Searle Peacock, describing how he has visited him in hospital in Abbassia where he was suffering from shell shock, May - December 1917; 50 postcards showing scenes of life in Egypt and Palestine; a soldier's pocket Bible; his 'Pip, Squeak and Wilfred' medals; and two portrait photographs of him in uniform.
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Catalogue date 2002-08-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Evans, H R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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