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Description: | Ms diary (68pp) of his service as a Private in the Machine Gun Corps during the last months of the First World War, August 1918 - February 1919, providing a litany of his day to day activities including his training in Grantham, drills, parades and kit inspections, his arrival in France on 8 November 1918, the reaction to the Armistice on 11 November and his march to Germany, arriving at Duren on the 20 December. Accompanied by a photograph of him in uniform, a time line, census report and uncompleted family tree; the diary includes the original pencil in the spine of the notebook.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-09-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bulstrode, W A V | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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