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Description: | 3 bound ms diaries (312pp), noting his activities in East Africa as a sapper in the Royal Engineers (1917 - 1919), including the journey to Dar-Es-Salaam (January - March 1917), his involvement in action near Mbanga (July 1917), his stay in a hospital camp near Cape Town with bullet wounds to the hand and chest, which also passed through his diary (October - December 1917), the journey across Africa in pursuit of the retreating German Army (January - November 1918), Von Lettow-Vorbeck's surrender, his hospitalisation at Roberts Heights Hospital, Pretoria, for a suspected case of malaria (December 1918 - February 1919) and his return to the United Kingdom (March 1919), as well as notes on the numerous animals spotted during his service, including lions, cobras and tarantulas and the outbreaks of malaria and dysentery that affected nearly everyone in the Division. Also included are 28 postcards, some written to his family, showing the areas in Africa through which he travelled and the natives in the area, two pictures of a Zeppelin that was brought down near Newport (September 1916) and a metal piece of the Zeppelin that was recovered from the wreckage.
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-07-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Johnson, W C H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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