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Description: | Ts transcript of a diary (16pp), kept while he was serving with the 1st Battalion Royal Scotch Fusiliers (9th Brigade, 3rd Division) (March - July 1915), describing the march to Ypres (March 1915), the disorder in the trenches caused by a night time German shelling, his involvement in the opening days of 2nd Ypres and the incredible mental strain and panic he felt while trying to move wounded soldiers from a bombed out trench (April 1915), his new position at St Eloi where was he surprised to find the trenches passing right through the destroyed town and his return to Ypres, which was filled with the smell of decaying corpses (May 1915), a description of the efficiency of a new gas respirator and a description of an attack on the German lines which he helped lead and its failure due to the number of casualties caused by friendly fire and the retaliation of the German forces in the support lines (June 1915).
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-07-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Taylor, R A G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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