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Description: | Bound volume containing a ts transcript (86pp) of a diary covering his service as a subaltern in the City Imperial Volunteers field battery during the South African War, March - October 1900, and a ts transcript (130pp) of a diary covering his attachment to various batteries in the 6th Divisional Artillery on the Western Front, February - March 1915, and his subsequent commands of a battery in the 6th Brigade (later 236th Brigade) RFA (47th Division) principally in the Loos sector, March 1915 - March 1916, of the 303rd Brigade RFA (60th Division) on the Western Front, June - November 1916, in Macedonia, December 1916 - May 1917, and in Egypt and Palestine, June 1917 - February 1918, and of the 296th Brigade RFA (59th Division) during the final advance on the Western Front, July 1918 - February 1919. With the diaries are ms extracts (15pp) from his letters home at the time of the Battle of Loos and a ts copy (2pp) of his letter describing the capture of Jerusalem and it is these two events, and the 3rd Battle of Gaza, which are covered in greatest detail in his diaries.
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Catalogue date 1985-11-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bayley, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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