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Description: | Ms diary (15pp) for the period 12 December 1916 to 6 May 1917 covering his enlistment, training and voyage to Bombay with the 1st Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), providing a detailed account of equipment issued, winter weather, places passed through, life onboard the troopship, visits to Freetown and Cape Town, sailing through a typhoon in the Indian Ocean, before passing through minefields approaching Bombay.
Cataloguer AJC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 1st Battalion British Army Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Waddington, Julian | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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