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Description: | Ms diary (61pp) kept during his service with the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (40th Brigade, 13th Division) initially in Kirku, India, 11 November 1918 - 20 February 1919, describing the lack of immediate celebrations for the Armistice, a celebratory march through the city of Poona the following month, his hopes for demobilisation, and his voyage to Suez onboard the RMS NORTHBROOK, then to Taranto onboard the RAMS CANBERRA before a train journey across France during extremely cold weather conditions, and return to the United Kingdom.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1998-12-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sprague, L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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