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Description: | Ms diary (15pp) written during his service as a Private with an unidentified Field Ambulance RAMC on the Western Front, August - November 1914, describing in brief but regular entries his embarkation for France, the death and burial of Captain E K Bradbury VC at Nery, German looting, involvement in the retreat from Mons and morale during the march, their billets and the rum issue, their eventual arrival at Armentieres and conversion of a local school into a dressing station, and attendance at a recreational concert; together with his discharge, demobilisation and character certificates (1919).
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2003-06-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Beer, G W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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