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Description: | Transcription (193pp ts, in German) of a detailed and informative diary kept by a Medical Officer ('Stabs- und Regimentsarzt') in the German Army during 1914 - 1918, describing the holiday atmosphere at the time of mobilization in July 1914, the advance of his regiment (unnamed, quite probably the 81st Infantry Regiment) through Luxemburg to the Maas and Aisne Rivers, coming to a halt just east of Reims, transfer to the Eastern Front in May 1915, participating in the crossing of the San River in that month (Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive), return to France in July 1915 and the Champagne Offensive in September, on the Somme near Bapaume in late 1916, based at Lens during the Battle of Arras in April 1917, his hospitalisation following a gas attack during the Third Battle of Ypres and eventual transfer to Germany in March 1918 where he served with a Railway Regiment at Hanau, and a brief return to the Western Front shortly before the November 1918 Armistice; also selected copies of personal photographs from a series of photograph albums compiled by Natt after the war, showing battlefield and other scenes on the Western and Eastern Fronts, including pictures of him and other members of his unit.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2005-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Natt, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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