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Description: | 5 ms diaries kept while he was serving on the Western Front with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, March 1916 - January 1919, initially in the 1st Pioneer Battalion and later in the 9th Battalion Canadian Railway Transport, at first as a signaller, then from July 1917 - September 1918 as a batman and finally from September 1918 onwards as a paymaster sergeant, with particular reference to his duties, conditions generally, enemy air activity, off-duty entertainment (including baseball games and visits to Talbot House where he met the Reverend "Tubby" Clayton), his religious convictions, his admiration for front line troops and his own nervous disposition, affection for his wife and experiences relating to the Battles of the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Third Ypres and the German spring offensive (1918); also ts reminiscences (70pp) covering the outbreak of war, his enlistment in the 51st Battalion CEF in Edmonton, initial training in Canada, the ill-discipline of his fellow recruits, experiences after arriving in England (October 1915) and anecdotes about life on the Western Front, together with his discharge certificate and a portrait photograph of him in uniform.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 1996-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Poucher, J M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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