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Description: | Ts transcription of a diary (14pp), and of a later undated account (10pp) based upon the entries for December 1915 – November 1916, written during his service as a stretcher bearer with the 94th Field Ambulance RAMC, December 1915 – November 1918, describing his embarkation in December 1915 and voyage on the transport NESTOR through the Mediterranean to Alexandria via Malta, their arrival in Egypt and his impressions of the local population, their train journey to Port Said and camp by the Suez Canal, the voyage to France on board the MINNEAPOLIS (March 1916), landing at Marseilles and taking a train north to the Somme sector, his billets and life on the Western Front, his duties nursing wounded soldiers, and the bombardment marking the opening of the Battle of the Somme (July 1916). Together with a ts transcription (3pp) of an undated account entitled ‘Memories of the Suez Canal’, describing in greater detail his time in Egypt, and a ts biographical note (1p) written by his granddaughter in 2009.
Cataloguer APR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Spencer, Thomas Nunn | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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