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Description: | 6 pocket diaries covering his service with the 51st Signal Company RE on the Western Front, August 1915 - February 1919, describing his posting to the 153rd Infantry Brigade HQ near Albert, bombardments across the front and initial sightings of German aircraft, an initiation ceremony for the 51st Signal Company, the discovery of a girl in the Army and souvenir hunting (September 1915), enemy activity at Martinsart (October 1915) and Avelmy (November 1915), Christmas celebrations, his posting to the Armentieres sector where he remained until April 1918, detailing observation activity and its relation to air and artillery action, his telegraphic work in relation to the German withdrawal on the Somme, the poor conditions at the Corps Rest Station where he stayed to recover from tonsillitis, a German soldier who mistakenly walked to the wrong side of the lines, the bombardment on the first day of the 3rd Battle of Ypres (July 1917), a mutiny of Chinese labourers at Locre on Christmas Day 1917, his move to Noyon (February 1918) and his movements during the Allied retreat of spring 1918, his move to various telegraph offices on the Aisne (May 1918) where he refers to the breakdown of communications during the German advance, his move to Oisemont on the Somme (July 1918) where he describes an inspection, the progress of the Allied advance and the welcome from liberated civilians in Le Cateau and Beaumont (November 1918), stories of German atrocities and his first impressions on his arrival in Cologne (January 1919).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-23 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Doe, D H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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