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Description: | Word processed transcription (76pp) of three diaries kept by him during his service with 4th Company Plymouth Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry (January 1915 - December 1918) covering his passage to the Dardanelles and landing at Port Said following a failed landing on the peninsula (March 1915), the landing and fighting at Gallipoli and trench digging at Lemnos, his posting with the battalion to France (May 1916) and trench digging duties at Hessin and Prailly, his capture at Arras (April 1917) and imprisonment in various camps in France and Germany, and eventual demobilisation via Copenhagen (December 1918), with good details of conditions and fighting in Gallipoli, winter conditions there and the constant bombardments, his impressions of France and experiences in the line, his treatment as a prisoner of war and the kindness of French civilians in supplementing rations, the monotonous routine of camp life, the excitement at the news of the Armistice, and the gradual deterioration of discipline in the camp at the end of hostilities.
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Marines Royal Marine Light Infantry | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Taylor, C H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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