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Description: | Ts transcribed diary (135pp) of his service as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 1/4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (145th Brigade, 48th Division) and also concerning his joining No 16 Squadron Royal Flying Corp, 4 October 1915 – 20 March 1917, initially conveying the harsh realities of trench warfare on the Western Front, with references to the bitter weather conditions, his uncomfortable billets and dugouts, the incessant sound of artillery, his active involvement in a bombing raid on the enemy lines (28 - 29 June 1916), his experiences of No Man’s Land and the fighting that he participated in throughout the Battle of the Somme (July 1916) as well as the appalling number of casualties within his platoon; continuing with his transfer to the RFC (22 November 1916), his initial impressions of flying over the Front Line and the subsequent aerial combat he witnessed as Orderly Observer before his promotion to acting Flight Intelligence Officer (16 January 1917). He later died of wounds received after his plane was shot down on 21 March 1917.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Battle of the Somme 1916 Allied Offensive British Army Western Front Royal Flying Corp First World War Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lidsey, William John | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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