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Description: | Ms diary (251pp) and ts transcription (47pp) of his service as a Private with 36 Battery Royal Garrison Artillery, 29 March - 31 December 1918, noting his landing in France (1 April 1918) and the various positions he occupied thereafter on the Front Line, touching on his feelings of homesickness, the adverse weather and muddy conditions, the influenza epidemic, as well as the amount of shell fire going on around him, until he was sent to No 32 Australian Casualty Clearing Station and then on to a Red Cross hospital at Boulogne (August 1918) where he received medical treatment for an unnamed illness, describing his operation then recovery and how he tried to avoid having to leave the convalescent camp, including his joining the boxing team (October 1918), finally returning to his Battery on 3 November 1918 he continues with an account of his duties as a clerk in an office at Cambrai during the final months of the First World War; with a ms transcription of a letter (1p), written on the last page of the diary, that he sent to his wife immediately prior to his operation, as well as a photograph of him in uniform.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Garrison Artillery Royal Regiment of Artillery British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Marshall, N C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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