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Description: | Ms diary (69pp), with photocopied ms transcription (24pp), written during his service as a NCO with the 6th Battalion Manchester Regiment (127th Brigade, 42nd Division) at Gallipoli, May - September 1915, describing his landing on the Peninsula (6 May) and the harsh fighting and constant shelling in an attempt to consolidate their position, the particular danger from Turkish snipers, casualties sustained by his unit, the living conditions, his witnessing of the sinking of the battleship HMS MAJESTIC after being torpedoed in the Dardanelles, his evacuation to a hospital at Lemnos after being shot through the hand (26 May), the horrible wounds he witnessed on board the hospital ship which then took him to Malta and subsequently back to hospital in the United Kingdom.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2004-03-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bagnall, V | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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