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Description: | Ts transcribed diary (97pp) of his service as a Sergeant with the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (attached as Army Troops to 13th Division, in December 1914 transferred to 40th Brigade, 13th Division), June 1916 - March 1919, relaying his training in Weymouth, embarkation to Mesopotamia on 16 October 1916 and then his arrival in Basra on 22 November 1916 where he worked in the Office at the Base Stationary Depot, also describing the time he spent in hospital after contracting malaria in July 1917 and his perceptions of the different nationalities and cultures he came across; including scans of some of the photographs he took of the local people and scenery.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-12-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gough, S A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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