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Description: | Ms diary (34pp), together with ts transcript containing additional biographical notes (25pp), written whilst serving with the 2/1st (East Anglian) Field Ambulance RAMC (54th Division) in Palestine, 23 May – 21 November 1917, describing his voyage to Palestine via Salonika, the fears of encountering a German submarine and relief of seeing British escort destroyers (May 1917), his duties evacuating wounded during the 54th Division’s raid on Umbrella Hill (July 1917) and the assault of the Division along the coast during the Third Battle of Gaza (November 1917), brief but interesting mentions of a visit by General Allenby, army rations, sport, frequent aerial fights, and of his visit to Wilhelma, a German Palestine settlement. He was killed in action on 27 November 1917.
Cataloguer AS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Flynn, Edward Franklyn | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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