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Description: | Ms diary (4 bound books, 298 pages), covering his service with Section 10 of the American Ambulance Field Company, April 1915 - July 1917, in which he describes his journey through France to Nancy where he was involved with carrying and treating French soldiers and German prisoners for physical wounds and shell shock (April - July 1915), his own bout of nervous fatigue and neuralgia and subsequent treatment at an American hospital in Paris (July - August 1915), a trip through the Pyrenees (August - September 1915), a brief period of work at a field hospital in Crombeke, Belgium where he requested to be recalled (September 1915), and later service in Salonika and Albania (January - July 1917) where he describes watching the execution of an Albanian officer on the charge of spying behind Austrian lines, the taking of a German prisoner whose plane crashed in the grounds of the hospital in Koritza, his visits to numerous prostitutes in the area and the complete boredom experienced by all the ambulance drivers in the section and his own overwhelming desire to return home.
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-06-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Harle, J W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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