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Description: | Ms diary account with captioned photographs (90pp) recording his experiences as an officer with a supply unit of the ASC at the Suvla Bay landing and on the Gallipoli Peninsula, July - December 1915, describing his journey to Gallipoli in HMS HAVERFORD via Malta, Alexandria and Imbros, his daily routine mentioning the heat, flies, his contempt for regular soldiers, arrival at Suvla Bay (7 August 1915) where he describes the initial stages of the landing, the constant shelling and shortage of water and praises the Field Ambulances and the infantrymen, the heavy casualties following Turkish bombardments and daily life in the front line, and his evacuation due to sickness after which he comments on the inefficiency of medical arrangements at Gallipoli and in Salonika as well as expressing his dislike of the Royal Naval Hospital at Malta.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Howitt, Frank Dutch | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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