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Description: | Interesting ms diary (76pp) written during his service as a Bombardier with 383 Siege Battery RGA in Egypt and Palestine, July 1917 - February 1919, describing his voyage out and train journey via France and Malta to Alexandria, Egypt, attendance on an anti-gas course at Tel-el-Kebir and leave in Cairo, involvement in the 3rd Battle of Gaza (October 1917) and the capture of Jerusalem (December 1917) and Jericho (February 1918), his admission into hospital with tonsilitis (May 1918) and then return to his Battery with whom he remained until the Armistice and demobilisation.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2005-08-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gough, J W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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