Description: | Excellent ts diary with ms amendments (35pp), 1 - 5 April 1919, recording her visit as Colonel in Chief of the Women's Legion to the battlefields of the Western Front, describing the desolation and war damage prevalent wherever she went but with particular reference to Lille, Albert, Arras, Lens, Hooge, Ypres, Mount Kemmel, Cuinchy and Festubert, the experiences of their tour leader Brigadier General Guggisberg, a ride in a British tank, the geography of Vimy Ridge, the process of recovering and burying dead bodies, the lack of animal life and vegetation and the impressive trench system.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2007-04-17 |