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Description: | Transcription (6pp) of a diary kept during his service with the 9th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders) (100th Brigade, 33rd Division) between 4 July and 29 October 1916, detailing his experiences in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme until he was killed on 1 November 1916; also included are 6 transcribed letters (6pp) from friends and family returned after his death, a ts extract from a book recounting the losses of the Highland Light Infantry at the Somme, a chronological listing of places he had served at while in France, a ts transcription of a booklet entitled 'Bayonet Fighting Practice', and a ts transcription of a military document entitled 'Some of the questions a platoon commander should ask himself on taking over a trench, and at intervals afterwards'.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-07-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McDonald, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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