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Description: | Ms diary, August 1914 - April 1915, kept while serving as a subaltern in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry attached to the 2nd Battalion Nigeria Regiment recording his experiences as part of the Maidaguri Column which entered the Cameroons on the outbreak of war and took part in the operations around the German mountain position at Mora, in particular the actions of 26 - 27 August and 30 - 31 October during which he was wounded, containing descriptions of the frequent patrolling and skirmishing, his sympathetic dislike of punishing the local tribesmen, co-operation with the French troops, the fighting qualities of the native troops, an unofficial truce on Christmas Day and the difficult conditions of fighting in West Africa, together with an ms transcript (18pp) of extracts from his letters, May - December 1919, written while serving as a member of the Graves Registration Unit at Gallipoli prior to the arrival of the Imperial War Graves Commission giving details of his work exhuming and identifying bodies amongst which, he believed, were those of Lieutenant Colonel J A C Quilter, commanding officer of the Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, and Captain M H Giradot of the 1st Battalion Essex Regiment (88th Brigade, 29th Division), the climate and hardships of the life there and the disorganisation of the Army of the Black Sea to which the GRU were attached, and photographs relating to both periods of service.
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Catalogue date 1991-05-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lees, A C L D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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