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Description: | Ts diary (35pp) with ms addendums entitled 'Some "Side-Show" Scraps' written by him during his service with the 1/5th Battalion Essex Regiment (161st Brigade, 54th Division) in Gallipoli, Palestine, and Egypt, recounting his experiences during the Battle of Sari Bair in July 1915, his return to Egypt in May 1916 following a brief period in hospital in England suffering from dysentery and his time in the Sinai Desert on outpost duty; providing good detail about the 1st and 2nd Battles of Gaza and its subsequent capture in November 1917, including troop movements, descriptions of fighting, tactics used by the Turks, retrieving wounded and dead soldiers, the oppressive weather and the difficult conditions in the trenches. Also included with the diary are 3 sketches done by the author depicting, on the front cover, a ship leaving for Gallipoli entitled 'The "Troopers" on the Tide', followed by an British soldier in uniform entitled 'Askari Inglesi', and, on the back cover, a dead British soldier; a newspaper clipping of a sketch he did in memoriam of his brigade's service at Gaza in March 1917; a ts letter commending the service of the Egypt Expeditionary Force against the VII and VIII Turkish Armies and 4 ms letters (8pp) of recommendation written for Town by former commanding officers.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-07-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 1/5th Battalion 54th Division Essex Regiment 161st Brigade British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Town, Walter Milligan | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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