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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms diary (214pp) recording his service in command of a Bearer Sub-Division of the 2nd Field Ambulance RAMC (63rd Royal Naval Division) under training in the United Kingdom at Crystal Palace and Blandford, February - March 1915, and then active service at Gallipoli, April - September 1915, describing the grandstand view he enjoyed of the landings while in HMT MINNETONKA anchored off Gaba Tepe and then Cape Helles, his own landing at Cape Helles (7 May) where they established their camp and dressing station alongside the Krithia Road, the regular shelling on the Peninsula and widespread pessimism about the campaign, his duties at the dressing station and the thousands of casualties treated, after which he proceeded to Imbros to prepare for the Suvla Bay landings, when he was temporarily attached to the 33rd Brigade (11th Division) who went ashore at B Beach (7 August), describing the disorganisation and his anger at the heavy losses, his sickness and evacuation to the hospital ship HMHS GLOUCESTER CASTLE (14 September) and then to HMHS AQUITANIA for passage back to the United Kingdom. Also held with the collection are microfilm copies of an ms letter to his brother (20 May 1915) criticising the absence of surprise in the Gallipoli landings; 2 ts reports of proceedings to the OC 2nd Field Ambulance covering the period at Suvla (6 August 1915 - 25 August 1915); and 2 volumes of an unofficial magazine for the 2nd Field Ambulance.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-23 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Foxell, Humphrey L G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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