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Description: | Ts transcription (74pp) of a diary kept during service as a pioneer with "P" Company, Special Brigade, Royal Engineers (RE) on the Western Front during the First World War, containing a great deal of interesting details and personal observation from the point of view of an ordinary soldier, including digging gun emplacements in the front line near Poperinghe and Ypres and setting off gas cylinders during Allied attacks, but with little mention of the major engagements of the war.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1977-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Special Brigade Royal Engineers British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wilson, R W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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