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Description: | Ms diary (31pp with additional notes) written by an unidentified soldier, November - December 1915, possibly while serving with the 19th Battalion Royal Fusiliers and covering his arrival in France and the subsequent journey to the front with details of conditions in his billets and in the trenches near Givenchy and Festubert, which suffered from waterlogging, as well as references to his thoughts on being in the line for the first time, coming under shell fire and killing his first enemy soldier.
Cataloguer Backlog
Catalogue date 1987-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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