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Description: | Ts transcription (8pp) of an account of the Third Battle of Ypres by a bombadier with the 13th Battery, 13th Brigade, New Zealand Field Artillery describing giving fire support to the attack by the New Zealand Division, the harsh conditions and the loss of men (October 1917), a ts diary (42pp) covering the period January - October 1918, giving details of the battery in position outside Ypres at Hellfire Corner, the German attack in March 1918, moving to the Amiens region, shocked at finding British morale so low, a big attack (August 1918) and moving through Bapaume, Bertincourt, Metz and Cambrai, the surprise at the constant gains, and with a summary of events from the end of the diary to March 1919 when he returns to New Zealand, and the diary provides a vivid picture of life in a siege battery and gives details on the actual operation of the guns used, as well as showing that he was conscious and proud of the fact that he was a 'colonial' and assured of the fighting prowess of the troops. Together with ts notes (4pp) to be read with the 1918 diary providing closer details on individual events, particularly the death of friends.
Cataloguer PR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | New Zealand Army 13th Battery 13th Brigade Royal New Zealand Artillery | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stokes, Bert O | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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