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Description: | Ms diary (48pp), with modern ms transcription (25pp), written during his service as an officer with the 6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (110th Brigade, 37th Division until 7 July, then 21st Division) on the Western Front, 1 January – 10 July 1916, mostly concerned with daily weather reports and lists of men in his company who were wounded or killed, though including reports on casualties at the Battle of Verdun, the arrest of Sir Roger Casement and describing his involvement in the Battle of the Somme up until the time of his death.
Cataloguer BEK | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wetenhall, William Thornton | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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