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Description: | Ms diary written in shorthand (29pp) with ts translation (25pp) of his service as a Private with an unidentified Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, March – October 1918, recording his embarkation to France (30 March 1918), his impressions of his billets on arrival at Rouen, his subsequent experiences in the trenches of the Western Front, the training he attended at Lumbries, including details of the sex education he received and in doing so revealing prevalent attitudes towards morality (September 1918), whilst making some interesting references to the improvement in his regiment’s morale as they advanced towards the German lines (August 1918), also outlining thoroughly the fighting he participated in until he was wounded and taken to No 3 Casualty Clearing Station on 15 October 1918.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stapleton, E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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