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Description: | 10 ms diaries (ca 1,700pp) kept between 12 August 1916 and 16 May 1921 and then sporadically between 13 August 1939 and 31 December 1948, first during his service with the 10th (Reserve) Brigade Royal Horse Artillery in Egypt and Gallipoli until his wounding, returning to the RHA on the Western Front in 1917 where he was awarded the MC for action at Vimy Ridge in June with a bar added in November for action at Passchendaele; and then with the 37th Battery Royal Field Artillery in France; wounded in the leg by shrapnel on 20 September 1918 and received a medical discharge; between 1919 and 1921, worked in Germany for the War Office in political intelligence and later for the Inter-Allied Disarmament Commission; invalided out in 1925 due to his wounds, but returned to military intelligence and Public Relations for the War Office in 1939 before being invalided permanently in 1941, ending his military career. The First World War diaries contain brief entries recounting the every day monotonies of life on the Western Front, gas attacks, shelling, bombardments and attacks by his troops against the Germans, skirmishes at Lens, his personal responsibilities (and occasional mistakes) as a 2nd Lieutenant with his Brigade, and the circumstances of his wounding in France and subsequent operations and convalescence in military hospital. The later diaries are primarily anecdotal, telling of his civilian career as chairman of an American manufacturing company, personal life and family matters. Also included in the collection is a photograph of him during his service with the War Office and partial ts transcriptions of the diaries; cyclostyled ts notes (16pp) on the differences between the numbers of British and German casualties on the British Sector of the Western Front between February 1915 and October 1918; ms notes on 'Lessons from 5th Division operations, 21 August - 4 September 1918' (8pp); a ts account (22pp, undated) describing how he and (later General Sir) Brian Robertson were in Germany on a cycling holiday at the outbreak of war and struggled to return home after being suspected of spying; an ms letter (3pp, November 1933) from the Dutch military authorities explaining why Warburton and his friend were not immediately allowed to cross the border from Germany into Holland; a photograph showing Warburton and fellow officers of the Army of Occupation in Berlin; a printed Western Front trench map (1p) of the sector between Roclincourt and Neuville-St-Vaast; printed booklet 'Regulations Respecting Admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich' (29pp, 1912); printed booklet 'The Fruits of Victory: Inaugural speeches at the peace conference' (16pp, January 1919); newspaper cutting from THE DAILY TELEGRAPH containing an article on Vimy Ridge by Sir Percival Phillips (1p, 24 July 1936); and a ts summary (2pp) of the 5th Infantry Division's activities during the Second World War.
Cataloguer KAW | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Warburton, P G E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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