Description: | Two ms diaries (112pp and 179pp) written by an anonymous soldier serving with the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (86th Brigade, 29th Division), May 1916 - January 1918, the 12th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (65th Brigade, 22nd Division), February - December 1918, the 6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (198th Brigade, 6th Division), December 1918 - February 1919, and the 16th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (96th Brigade, 32nd Division), March - September 1919, containing basic and generally uninformative entries describing his service on the Western Front (September 1916 - November 1917), in Salonika (December 1917 - July 1918), back on the Western Front (July - March 1919) and then in Germany as part of the Army of Occupation (March - September 1919), referring to his duties and movements, inspections, periods of leave and his high rate of sickness; there is a single reference to fighting near Doiran in April 1918.
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Catalogue date 2001-11-07 |