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Description: | Ts diary (225pp) covering his service with the 8th (Pioneer) Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (26th Division) in Salonika, 1917 - 1919, describing the monotony of his daily routine of marches, guard duty and the construction of trenches as well as occasional approaches of action, complaining about censorship, the idleness of officers, and boredom while revealing his feelings towards the enemy and mentioning the 'Y' scheme of recuperation for malaria cases in the United Kingdom before being transferred to the 26th Divisional Theatre (June 1918) where he worked as a general factotum in a relaxed atmosphere and then to Svilengrad Railway Station where he served as a clerk to the RTO before returning to the UK (January 1919).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Mather, W D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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