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Description: | Ms diary notes (34pp) recording his service with the 10th Battalion Devonshire Regiment (79th Brigade, 26th Division) in Salonika, August 1916 - December 1918, describing his embarkation in the SS NILE via Gibraltar and Malta, arrival at Salonika and the conditions greeting them, Russian church services, his duties which included trench digging, a move in October 1916 to the Doiran front where he saw more shelling and increased skirmishes with the Bulgars, the concerted attempts by the Allies to capture Petit Couronne including the 1st Battle of Doiran (24 April 1917), the harsh weather conditions, his hospitalisation suffering from malaria (May - July 1918) and influenza (September 1918), and after the Bulgar surrender his journey through Bulgaria into Romania in order for his unit to attend the re-entry of King Ferdinand into Bucharest (December 1918). Together with his malarial detail sheet recording doses of quinine; a Christmas postcard 'from the Balkans'; a photograph of him in uniform; a printed DAILY NEWS map of the Balkan States; an ms transcription of the poem 'How the war was won and why' (5pp); three copies of THE BALKAN NEWS; a copy of THE ORIENT WEEKLY; a (?Bulgarian) newspaper; and five wartime souvenirs including uniform badges, his identity disc and a compass.
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Catalogue date 2002-03-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Kershaw, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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