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Description: | Ms diary (35pp, first page missing) kept by him during his service as a Private with the 15th Field Ambulance RAMC (5th Division), May 1917 – November 1918, recording intermittently his movements and activities on the Western Front, providing particularly good descriptions of how he helped carry the wounded to safety as well as the disturbing sight of dead and dismembered bodies that he came across, also mentioning his impressions of the ruined cathedral at Ypres and German prisoners of war before he was sent to Italy, where he continues to note the intensity of the fighting going on around him until the declaration of the Armistice (November 1918); together with a ts booklet (32pp), published in 1919, concerning the history of the 13th, 14th and 15th Field Ambulances, throughout the First World War, three contemporary newspaper articles (3pp) and a photograph of a woman who was presumably his wife.
Cataloguer | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army Royal Army Medical Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clark, W R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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