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Description: | Ms diary (34pp) written during his service with the 2/7th Battalion Middlesex Regiment in Egypt and Palestine, August 1915 - May 1916, and with the 1/5th Battalion London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) (169th Brigade, 56th Division) on the Western Front, May - November 1916, describing in very brief entries his sight-seeing excursions in Egypt, route marches through the desert, instances of army punishment, the desert landscape, his journey to France and trench duties in the Arras sector before moving to the Somme; together with a portrait photograph of him taken after the war, a photograph of Manor House Hospital (October 1920), and his Second World War National Registration Identity Card and Disabled Persons (Employment) Act Certificate of Registration.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2003-06-17 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wass, A E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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