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Description: | Five ms diaries, covering the period August 1914 to February 1919, written by an ambulance train attendant with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), and containing brief daily entries about his time with the BEF in France, and a few weeks with an ambulance train in Italy during the winter of 1917 - 1818, with details of travelling throughout France, handling British, Allied and German wounded, his first experiences of which coming after the Battle of Mons, moving casualties from the northern sectors of the British Front in France to the French Channel ports, frequent references to refugees and German air attacks, but mainly just listing in itinerary of places and times. Together with three ms postcards to his wife (July 1906), an ms postcard to a friend (December 1914), and a postcard to his wife (April 1915), and seven photographs showing: NCOs at a dinner for Colonel A V Payne, a portrait photograph of Wilkins, 3 photographs of Wilkins and his family, a Royal British Legion March (1942), and Wilkins and his wife on their golden wedding anniversary (1967).
Cataloguer DRB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army Royal Army Medical Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wilkins, W J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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