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Description: | Ms loose page diary (35pp, with word processed transcription, 16pp) covering his service with 42nd Division (East Lancashire) Signal Company RE (May 1915 - January 1916) at Gallipoli, covering his embarkation from Egypt and landing at W Beach (May 1915), action at the 3rd Battle of Krithia (June 1915) and evacuation to Cairo (January 1916), including good notes on the atmosphere on approaching the peninsula and during the landing, his duties laying signal cables and erecting telephone poles, heavy bombardments, air activity, naval battles off the peninsula, poor conditions in the heat and the prevalence of dysentery and cholera, and his convalescence at Mudros after receiving a gunshot wound prior to the evacuation of the peninsula (January 1916).
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Engineers British Army Signal Company | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Willcock, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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