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Description: | Ms pencil pocket-diary covering his service as a stretcher bearer with the RAMC on the Western Front, May 1916 - September 1917, containing short entries giving few details of his work but including references to the attack on Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme, 1 July 1916, and the scores of wounded which resulted, and to the Battle of Arras in April 1917. Sandiford returned to the United Kingdom in September 1917, having been gassed in the Ypres Sector.
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Catalogue date 1977-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sandiford, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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