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Description: | Photocopy of a pocket diary (159pp), together with an expanded ms transcription (212pp) written in 1979, describing his service first in the 2/15th Battalion London Regiment (179th Brigade, 60th Division), August 1917 - January 1918, in Egypt and Palestine and later in the Royal Flying Corps as a photographer with No 57 Squadron at Abu Souer, Ismailia, January 1918 - February 1919, giving good details of his initial journey by train through Italy to Taranto, the Third Battle of Gaza (September 1917) and the subsequent entry into Jerusalem (December 1917); together with a number of printed items collected during his service including leave passes, cinema programmes, rail tickets and christmas cards.
Cataloguer PJG
Catalogue date 1993-12-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 57 Squadron Royal Air Force 60th Division 2/15th Battalion (Civil Service Rifles) British Army Royal Flying Corps London Regiment 179th Infantry Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Blunt, Francis Victor | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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