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Description: | Photocopy (33pp) of a semi-official ts diary written by one Eric Wettern and covering his service with No 2 Field Company RE (63rd Royal Naval Division) on the voyage out to Egypt, March 1915, and then at Gallipoli, April 1915 - January 1916, describing their voyage in the troopship SS SOMALI and conditions on board, the brief period spent in camp at Port Said, the naval bombardment of Gallipoli in support of the initial Allied landings and their own disembarkation on 29 April, the terrain of the Peninsula, their camp near Cape Helles and duties digging trenches and reinforcing defences, the poor hygiene and living conditions, the prevalence of unburied dead Turks, Christmas celebrations and the final evacuation from Gallipoli.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2003-04-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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