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Description: | 3 ms diaries (39pp, 176pp and 113pp), with word processed ts transcription (26pp), kept during his service with the 522nd Field Company RE in France, May - December 1916, Salonika, December 1916 - June 1917, and Egypt and Palestine, June 1917 - December 1918, containing extremely brief entries referring to his movements and duties, casualties within his unit, educational lectures by officers, and sightseeing in Egypt. Also held with the collection are a picture postcard written during leave in Egypt (7 February 1918); a portrait photograph of him in uniform; an album containing 189 personal photographs taken during his service; his National Registration cards (1915 and 1947); a War Savings booklet containing swastika stamps (undated, First World War); two printed Methodist prayer books contained within a leather 'Active Service' wallet; a printed pocket New Testament containing an inscription from his wife; a pre-war Bible; and his identity disc and regimental uniform badge.
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Catalogue date 2001-10-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Davies, A W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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