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Description: | Ms journal (287pp and 6 loose draft pages), together with a ts transcription (37pp), describing his enlistment and training in the 4th Battalion East Surrey Regiment and deployment to the Western Front at St. Eloi (September 1914 - April 1915), medical treatment for gas poisoning and a stomach wound (April 1915), convalescence with No 3 Convalescent Company, 3rd Battalion East Surrey Regiment in Dover (July - September 1915), service in the 10th Battalion Hampshire Regiment at Gallipoli and in Salonika (September - December 1915), his capture by Bulgarian troops, march to Sofia and later to a Bulgarian prisoner of war camp (December 1915 - October 1918), details of an escape attempt (June - July 1917), forced labour work, his treatment for malaria and heat stroke by a Turkish spiritual healer, his release and return to the United Kingdom (October - December 1918), marriage and demobilisation.
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-06-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jones, C E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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