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Description: | Microfilm copy of two ms diaries covering his service as a subaltern on the Western Front with the 185th Brigade RFA (40th Division), July - September 1916; the 278th Brigade RFA (55th Division), September - October 1916; and the 121st Brigade RFA (38th Division), October 1916 - May 1918; providing a good account of the daily life and duties of an artillery officer in the front line, mentioning the comforts available to officers including concerts, tea parties and town visits while providing information on observation posts and the work of a Forward Observation Officer, work with guns on firing programmes and battery positions, on supply, and events such as trench raids and instructional courses, commenting on relations between officers and men, morale, the establishment of a Rest Camp at Wimereux, his wounding by shrapnel (31 July 1917) which he attributes to exhaustion impairing his judgement, his recovery and immediate involvement in the retreat following the German spring offensive (March 1918) before being wounded again (May 1918) and returning to the United Kingdom.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-23 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Selby, H J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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